Well-architected review
Honest scoring on the AWS / Azure / GCP frameworks — operational, security, reliability, performance, cost, sustainability.
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Architecture that survives contact with production.
Multi-region, multi-cloud, well-architected designs you can defend in a room of engineers — and operate at 3am. We start with the failure domains and work backwards into the diagram, not the other way around.
99.99%Target on operated stacks
−38%Median cloud spend after review
3Clouds we work in daily
What you get
Architecture as a written artifact, not a Miro board.
Six deliverables on every solution architecture engagement — signed, dated, version-controlled.
Multi-region & DR design
Active-active, active-passive, or pilot-light — we'll defend the right shape for your RTO/RPO and your budget.
RTO · RPO · failover drillsMulti-cloud & hybrid
Workload placement across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem. Cost-aware, vendor-portable, sovereignty-aware where required.
portable · cost-awareSecurity architecture
Zero-trust, identity-first, with KMS, secrets, key rotation and audit pipelines baked into the design — not bolted on.
zero-trust · KMS · auditFinOps & cost design
Right-sized from day one. Reserved + spot strategy, tagging discipline, showback / chargeback, anomaly alerts.
tag · reserve · spotMigration strategy
6Rs: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire, retain — per workload, with a sequenced wave plan you can fund.
6Rs · waves · fundingHow we think
Six pillars. Tradeoffs in writing.
Every architecture is a set of bets. We score the bets honestly — and tell you which ones we'd keep, which ones we'd walk back.
We grade the design before we defend it.
The framework is just a scaffold. The value is in the conversation — what you're trading away, why, and what you'd revisit if the world changed.
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Workshop the bets
Two days. Engineers, ops, security and product in one room. Tradeoffs surfaced on paper before architecture.
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Score honestly
Red / amber / green per pillar with evidence. We won't mark a green where it's actually amber.
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Sequence remediations
One-week, one-quarter, one-year asks. Cost and risk per item, owned and funded.
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Re-score quarterly
Architecture is a verb. We come back, re-evaluate, retire what aged.
Tech stack
Cloud-native, vendor-pragmatic.
We'll use the managed service where it earns its keep. We'll go vendor-portable where it earns yours.
AWS
EKSRDS · AuroraDynamoDBLambdaS3CloudFront
Azure
AKSCosmos DBFunctionsService BusApp Gateway
GCP
GKESpannerBigQueryPub/SubCloud Run
Networking
VPC peeringTransit GatewayCloud InterconnectCDNWAF
Identity & secrets
IAMEntra IDOktaVaultKMS · HSM
IaC
TerraformPulumiCDKBicepCrossplane
FinOps
CloudHealthCloudabilityVantageKubecost
Migration
MGNAzure MigrateDMSVelero
From vision to victory
From sketch to signed design doc, in weeks.
A four-to-six week sprint that produces an architecture you can build, defend and operate.
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Week 1Discovery
Current state, business drivers, regulatory map, real cost line. We see what's actually running.
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Week 2Tradeoff workshop
Two days. Bets surfaced, dependencies mapped, the design space gets bounded.
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Week 3–4Design & score
Target architecture written, scored against six pillars, peer-reviewed by our principals.
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Week 5Roadmap
Sequenced waves with cost, risk and owner per work item. Funded, not just listed.
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OngoingQuarterly review
We come back, re-score, retire what aged. Architecture stays a living document.
Where it lands
Three architecture engagements that changed the bet.
No PDF gathering dust. Each one shifted what got built next quarter.
From single-AZ to active-active in two quarters.
Payments platform re-architected for active-active across two regions. Built the cell-based topology, ran a real failover drill on a Tuesday.
15 minRTO achieved
0Customer impact at drill
AWSEKSAurora Global
A bill that came down 38%.
Right-sized compute, killed three redundant services, moved spiky workloads to spot. Same SLA, materially smaller cloud bill.
−38%Monthly spend
0SLA regressions
TerraformKarpenterVantage
Same product, three sovereign clouds.
A health-tech platform deployed across AWS, Azure Gov and a sovereign EU region with one Terraform codebase. Compliance per geography.
3Sovereign regions
1Codebase
TerraformCrossplaneVault
Why ETY
Architects who build and operate.
3Clouds we work in daily — AWS, Azure, GCP — with sovereign variants.
−38%Median cloud spend reduction within 90 days of an architecture review.
22Production architectures we've designed and still operate.
Six pillarsHonestly scored on every engagement — no “all green” theater.
Architecture you can defend.
Send us the three things you're uncomfortable about in your current stack. We'll come back with a scored review, a target design, and a funded remediation roadmap.