# CLOUD ARCHITECTURE · FIXED-PRICE AUDIT
Cloud architecture audit:
clarity at a fixed price
Before you migrate, rebuild or renegotiate, you need a diagnosis: what actually costs money, where the CLOUD Act reaches your data, and how much of the environment could be rebuilt from code today. We audit your environment read-only, in 2–3 weeks, at a fixed price — and hand over a prioritised roadmap instead of a proposal for a twelve-month project.
2–3 wk
duration, results included
Fixed
price — no day-rate creep
Read-only
zero changes to production
3
dimensions: cost · sovereignty · IaC
# THE-PROBLEM
Why this matters
Most mid-market cloud environments have never been audited — they have accumulated. Costs rise quarter over quarter without a nameable driver, the “Frankfurt region” counts as sovereign internally, and the only complete map of the infrastructure lives in one person's head. Migration and modernisation decisions then get made on gut feeling — or on the slides of a vendor who profits from the rebuild.
The European Commission's 2024 cloud strategy explicitly warns that hosting on US-hyperscaler infrastructure creates regulatory exposure under the CLOUD Act, even when servers are physically located in the EU.
// SOUND FAMILIAR?
- The cloud bill grows faster than the workloads — and nobody can say why
- The “Frankfurt region” is treated as EU-sovereign — under the CLOUD Act it isn't
- No current architecture map; the environment was clicked together in a web console
- An upcoming project (migration, AI platform, certification) needs a baseline assessment
- The last “cloud consultation” ended in a proposal for a twelve-month project
# IS-IT-FOR-YOU
Where we fit — and where we don't.
// best fit for
- You want to know what your cloud really costs — and why, before signing off the next budget
- A migration, sovereignty or consolidation project is coming and you need a solid basis for the decision
- The environment grew organically and nobody can explain it end to end
- You want an independent second opinion — from architects with no stake in the follow-on project
// not ideal for
- Environments with current IaC, clean cost attribution and documented architecture — there is little to find
- Pure price negotiations with your cloud provider with no architecture questions attached
- Single applications without a meaningful cloud estate behind them
# HOW-WE-WORK
Four steps, no ceremony.
Kickoff & read-only access
Scoping call, goal definition, read-only access to billing, IAM overview and resource inventory. No change to your environment — at any point in the audit.
Analysis
Cost drivers and attribution, CLOUD Act and data-residency exposure, IaC coverage and rebuildability. Tool-assisted plus an architect's eye — not an automated report.
Findings review
Interim session with your team: validate findings, sharpen priorities, separate quick wins from structural work. What your team already knows doesn't get dressed up as an “insight” in the report.
Roadmap & handover
Findings report with quantified cost potential, a sovereignty assessment and a prioritised roadmap with effort estimates. The document is yours — execute it with us or without us.
Results in 2–3 weeks: findings report, quantified cost drivers, sovereignty assessment and a prioritised roadmap — yours to keep, with or without a follow-on project.
// typical anchors: architecture audit from €5,900 net (fixed) · fixed-scope builds from €12,000 net · fractional lead from €1,200 net/day
# THE-STACK
Production-tested tools, not a wish list.
# DEFINITION
What is cloud architecture audit consulting?
A cloud architecture audit is an independent, time-boxed review of an existing cloud environment along three dimensions: cost (drivers, attribution, savings potential), sovereignty (CLOUD Act exposure, data residency, encryption and key ownership) and reproducibility (IaC coverage, audit trail, bus factor). We run the audit read-only and deliver findings, assessment and a prioritised roadmap at a fixed price.
# FAQ
Common questions.
What does a cloud architecture audit cost?
The audit runs at a fixed price, depending on the size of the environment (accounts, providers, workloads). We name the exact price after a short scoping call — before you commit, not after. There is no day-rate extension: the scope is set before we start.Do you need access to our production environment?
Read-only. The audit works with read-only roles on billing data, IAM overviews and resource inventories. We change nothing, deploy nothing and need no write permissions — after the audit, the environment is in exactly the state we found it in.What do we get at the end, concretely?
A findings report in three parts: quantified cost drivers and savings potential, a sovereignty assessment (CLOUD Act exposure, data residency, key ownership) and a prioritised roadmap with effort estimates. The document is yours — as a decision basis, a negotiation tool, or a project starting point.Does the audit automatically lead to a follow-on project with you?
No. The roadmap is deliberately written so your own team or another partner can execute it. If you do want to build with us afterwards, we already know your environment — but the audit doesn't sell a project, it delivers a diagnosis.
// RELATED WORK
Proof, not promises.
Ready to put cloud architecture audit into production?
A 30-min call. We'll bring an architecture sketch and a rough number.
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