AWS and Azure reference architectures specialists for your dedicated team.

Where AWS and Azure reference architectures fits in a long-term product team.

Reference architectures are most valuable as a starting position and as a review checklist. They cover what teams forget under delivery pressure, such as network segmentation, least-privilege roles and multi-availability-zone placement, and they give an auditor something recognisable to assess. Starting from one is almost always cheaper than starting from a blank diagram.

They are also written by the vendor, which shows. They assume the vendor's managed services at every layer, they are specified for availability requirements most products do not have, and following one uncritically produces a bill out of proportion to the workload. The useful skill is knowing which parts of the pattern the actual requirements justify.

What your dedicated team does with AWS and Azure reference architectures.

The gap between a reference architecture and a running system is where the cost sits, and it widens over time as the real system drifts from the diagram. Keeping the two aligned is ongoing work.

That alignment, and the cost discipline that goes with it, is platform work for a dedicated cloud and DevOps team alongside the application developers.

Common AWS and Azure reference architectures use cases.

• A defensible starting point Networking, identity and availability decided from a reviewed pattern, even under deadline.
• Landing zones for a new estate Account structure, guardrails and baseline policy established before workloads make them expensive to change.
• Trimming a pattern to the real requirement Deciding which availability and redundancy choices the workload justifies, before the bill arrives.

Adding AWS and Azure reference architectures skills to your team.

Cloud architecture capacity is agreed as a committed monthly capacity across the platform discipline, with the cost of each pattern made clear at scoping.

AWS and Azure reference architectures specialists join your team remotely as dedicated, full-time team members, selected, employed and managed by us in Chiang Mai and Bangkok. Companies that hire offshore developers through Azendo add the skill at the next monthly cycle.