AWS Cloud Consulting for UK Businesses

AWS Cloud Consulting for UK Businesses

Amazon Web Services is the infrastructure layer underneath a significant portion of the modern internet, and for good reason. The breadth of managed services — databases, queues, serverless compute, AI/ML tooling, networking, security — means that a well-architected AWS environment can replace a significant amount of custom infrastructure work with managed, monitored, and automatically patched services.

But AWS is also large enough that most businesses don't know what they don't know. It's entirely possible to run a workload on AWS that is both more expensive and less reliable than equivalent on-premise infrastructure, simply because it wasn't designed with the platform's capabilities in mind. That's what cloud consulting is for: making sure your architecture makes sense for your workload and your budget, not just moving the same problems to a different environment.

What a Cloud Consulting Engagement Looks Like

Most engagements start with an architecture review — either of an existing AWS environment or a planned architecture for a new project. We use the AWS Well-Architected Framework as a baseline and assess your environment against five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation.

From there, we produce a prioritised list of findings with concrete recommendations. Security issues and reliability risks come first; cost optimisation typically follows. We then implement the changes directly or work alongside your internal team to do so — whichever model suits your team's capacity.

Cloud Cost Optimisation

AWS bills are notoriously easy to let grow unchecked. Oversized instances, unused resources, data transfer costs between regions, and services left running from old experiments all compound into bills that significantly exceed what the workload actually requires. We routinely help UK businesses reduce their AWS spend by 25–40% through right-sizing, Reserved Instance planning, and architectural changes that reduce unnecessary data movement and redundant compute.