Run AWS Like Someone Owns It

Right-sizing EC2 and RDS against real utilization, Savings Plans and Reserved Instances sized to actual baseline, Graviton candidates, S3 lifecycle rules and Intelligent-Tiering, unattached EBS volumes and idle Elastic IPs cleared out, NAT Gateway and cross-AZ transfer reviewed. Cost allocation tags so you can finally see spend by team and environment. We report the before-and-after line items, not a headline percentage.

A structured review across the six pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability. Findings come out ranked by risk and by spend, each with an owner and an effort estimate, so the review becomes a work queue rather than a slide deck.

Rehost when lift-and-shift onto EC2 is genuinely the right answer, re-platform when moving a database to RDS or a service to ECS or Fargate pays for itself. AWS Application Migration Service and AWS Database Migration Service for the move, with a rollback plan written before the cutover window opens.

Day-to-day operation of the services Texas businesses actually run: EC2 and Auto Scaling, VPC and subnet design, S3 and Glacier, RDS, ElastiCache, Route 53, CloudFront, SES, SNS, SQS, Lambda, and Application and Network Load Balancers. Patching, CloudWatch alarms, service quota management, and change control included.

AWS is responsible for security of the cloud; you are responsible for security in the cloud. We manage your half: least-privilege IAM roles instead of long-lived access keys, Service Control Policies across AWS Organizations, GuardDuty and Security Hub enabled and actually triaged, CloudTrail retained, KMS key policies, AWS Config rules, and secrets moved out of environment variables into AWS Secrets Manager.

AWS Backup policies per workload with cross-region and cross-account copies, so a compromised account cannot take the backups with it. RPO and RTO agreed per system, and restores actually performed on a schedule. A backup job that has never been restored from is an assumption, not a recovery plan.

Terraform or CloudFormation so the environment can be rebuilt rather than remembered, drift detection to catch changes made in the console, tagging enforced by policy rather than by good intentions, and CI/CD pipelines where your team is ready for them.

Which AWS region you pick matters more for cost, service availability, and data transfer charges than for raw milliseconds. We work through us-east-2, us-east-1, and us-west-2 against your actual workloads, look at AWS Direct Connect where an office or plant needs a private path, and map where egress charges will land before they show up on the bill.