FinOps and cloud architecture are inseparable. The cost trajectory of a cloud environment is determined largely by architectural decisions – the choice of service, the deployment pattern, the data flow design, the resiliency configuration – that are made long before a cost management platform ever sees the first billing record. Optimising spend on a poorly architected foundation is a treadmill. Getting the architecture right creates the conditions for costs to be both efficient and predictable.
Opactiv’s cloud architecture advisory service brings experienced cloud architects to engage with your infrastructure decisions at the point where those decisions still have full freedom to be made well.
- Architecture review and assessment provides an independent, expert evaluation of your current cloud architecture against the dimensions of cost efficiency, performance, security, reliability, and operational excellence – drawing on AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and the specific cost optimisation considerations that experience across many environments has taught us to look for.
- Cost-optimised architecture design works with your engineering teams on greenfield deployments and major migrations to embed cost efficiency into the design from the outset – selecting the right service types, designing for appropriate resilience levels, planning capacity and commitment purchasing strategies, and avoiding the architectural patterns that reliably generate cost surprises at scale.
- Multi-cloud and hybrid architecture guidance helps organisations that operate across multiple cloud providers, or that are managing the boundary between cloud and on-premises infrastructure, navigate the cost, governance, and operational complexity that multi-environment architectures introduce. We bring practical experience with the trade-offs involved and help you make decisions that serve your organisation’s specific risk tolerance, regulatory context, and commercial objectives.
- Cloud migration advisory supports organisations planning or executing migrations to the cloud – or between cloud providers – with guidance on landing zone design, network architecture, security configuration, and the cost modelling approaches that make migration business cases realistic and migration execution financially controlled.
- Infrastructure as Code and automation advisory helps teams move toward infrastructure management practices that are reproducible, auditable, and aligned with FinOps governance principles – where the cost implications of infrastructure changes are visible before deployment, not discovered in the next billing cycle.
