Cloud architecture for growing companies
The paid Cloud Architecture, Migration, and Cost Review connects cloud cost, migration, security, and operating ownership to a path your team can maintain.
The discovery call is free. Analysis, plans, and implementation begin only after you approve a paid scope.
A cloud decision is stuck
Cloud cost, migration, security, and platform ownership rarely arrive as tidy, separate projects. One change can move all four.
A Cloud Architecture, Migration, and Cost Review starts with a current-estate record and a cost and risk baseline. Depending on the written scope, it can add target architecture decisions, implementation artifacts, and an operating handoff. Environment, provider contracts, access, migration risk, and team capacity set the boundary.
Nelson works directly with founders and engineering teams when the cloud has become a business decision, not just an infrastructure ticket. The client feedback below comes from AWS work.
You will have a hard time finding anybody that knows more about AWS. Client feedback from an AWS network engagement, 2020.
These concerns often overlap. The first useful move is to decide which one is blocking a business or engineering decision now.
Cost visibility
Review AWS services, cost allocation, commitments, usage patterns, and ownership questions before deciding which changes deserve engineering time. This is FinOps context, not a savings forecast.
Migration or modernization
Examine production dependencies, change risk, target architecture, and cutover ownership before a migration plan is proposed.
Architecture and controls
Connect identity and access management (IAM), network boundaries, encryption, logging, monitoring, recovery, and team ownership to the event driving the work.
The paid cloud engagement
Cloud Architecture, Migration, and Cost Review
Start with the written boundary. The paid review can combine cloud architecture consulting, cloud migration planning, and an AWS cost review, then follows one baseline-first flow and includes only the work set in scope.
Review the environment, spend signals, dependencies, access, operating constraints, and the event that brought the work forward. The team sees the same starting point.
Set the architecture decisions, priorities, ownership, and sequence that fit the agreed business and technical constraints. The next change has a reason and an owner.
Complete the architecture, migration, cost, security, automation, or monitoring work that the team agreed to. The work stays tied to the decision at hand.
Organize decisions, code, records, runbooks, and handoff sessions around the way the internal team will operate the environment. The team knows what changed and what comes next.
Inside the paid engagement
The exact mix depends on the problem. The work may include:
Timing and fees depend on the current estate, provider contracts, access, dependencies, migration risk, team capacity, and the amount of implementation included. A written proposal sets those terms before work starts.
The first conversation
The free call covers the current environment, the business trigger, known constraints, decision owners, and where the team is stuck.
It does not include a cost audit, written architecture findings, a migration roadmap, or implementation. If there is a fit, a proposal defines the work, outputs, timing, and fees.
The answer depends on the environment and the decision in front of the team.
We discuss the current environment, the decision that is blocked, known constraints, likely owners, and whether an assessment or broader engagement is useful. Written analysis and implementation are not part of the free call.
No. The work can begin with a bounded review, one workload, or a Cloud Migration Assessment when that is the useful first move. We agree on the boundary before work starts.
Pilotcore's documented cloud delivery work is AWS-specific. When an AWS workload depends on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, on-premises, or hybrid systems, the current-state record can identify those interfaces, owners, and constraints. The written scope identifies the providers, accounts, workloads, and access included.
SOC 2 and HIPAA readiness sit outside this service's scope. A proposal may include cloud changes that the client's CPA, legal counsel, or security lead has already defined. CMMC cloud readiness work is limited to the systems and requirements in the stated contract and assessment scope. Pilotcore does not issue a SOC report, determine HIPAA applicability, certify compliance, or determine a CMMC assessment result.
We establish the cost and usage baseline, review architecture and contract constraints, and identify options that merit action. The result depends on current usage, commitments, workload needs, and which changes the team accepts.
That is the preferred path when access allows it. The written plan states where work happens, how access is controlled, which artifacts are committed to client-owned systems, and what handoff is included.
They are set after the current environment, access, dependencies, provider contracts, migration risk, team capacity, and requested outputs are understood. You see the timing and fees before work begins.
Choose the next useful step
Use the free discovery call to test fit and scope. If the path is clear, we will agree on the work before anything starts.