AWS ยท Advisory Service Components

For organizations that need AWS expertise to guide architecture decisions, security posture, and compliance strategy

Your team knows AWS. You've deployed workloads, configured services, and kept production running. But there's a gap between running infrastructure and engineering a platform. Our advisory engagements bring senior architects into your planning sessions, design reviews, and incident retrospectives. We don't produce reports that sit in folders. We produce architecture decisions that ship to production.

  • Platform Analysis For organizations evaluating their AWS architecture against operational and security objectives. A deep technical review of account structure, network topology, IAM design, security tooling, and infrastructure-as-code maturity. You receive a prioritized roadmap showing what to fix, what to refactor, and what's already working. No generic findings. Every recommendation includes implementation guidance specific to your environment.
  • Security Posture Review A focused assessment of AWS security services configuration, IAM policies, network exposure, and logging architecture. We validate that GuardDuty is actually detecting threats, Security Hub is aggregating findings correctly, and CloudTrail logs are flowing to storage that attackers cannot delete. Findings include specific remediation steps and Config rules to prevent recurrence.
  • Architecture Advisory Ongoing access to senior AWS architects who participate in your design decisions. We join architecture reviews, evaluate vendor solutions, and provide second opinions on infrastructure changes before they hit production. When your team debates whether to use Step Functions or EventBridge for workflow orchestration, we bring experience from environments that made both choices and lived with the consequences.
  • Compliance Mapping For organizations pursuing FedRAMP, CMMC, HIPAA, SOC 2, or other frameworks on AWS. We map your existing architecture against control requirements, identify gaps, and design implementation strategies that satisfy auditors without rebuilding your infrastructure. AWS provides shared responsibility. We show you exactly where that line sits for your specific deployment.

Advisory doesn't mean arms-length guidance. We embed with your engineering teams, attend your standups when it matters, and answer questions at the technical depth your architects require. The deliverable isn't a PDF. It's better architecture decisions that compound over time.

Includes:

  • Platform Assessment & Roadmap
  • Architecture Decision Support
  • Security Posture Review
  • Compliance Control Mapping
  • Design Review Participation
  • Vendor Evaluation Support