Everything in Professional, plus a named architect for migrations, modernization, and the decisions that need judgment.
Whether to move a monolith to containers, how to structure an environment for an authorization, whether a workload belongs on Lambda at all: these need someone who knows AWS and knows your situation. They do not fit a ticket queue, so they get deferred until they are urgent.
Premium puts a named architect on your team for exactly this work. One person who has carried your environment’s context long enough to give you a considered answer.
The scarce thing is rarely execution capacity. It is someone who has done this before telling you which of three plausible options is right for you.
A cloud architect who already understands your environment, available for the decisions that shape the next few years. Hiring one outright is a six-figure commitment and a long search, and most organizations need the judgment more often than the full-time seat.
Migrations, modernization, and environment restructuring handled by the team that already runs your accounts. No procurement cycle, and no ramp-up period before the work starts producing.
Architectural choices documented with the reasoning attached, so the next person to touch them understands why. Written rationale means later work builds on the decision instead of rediscovering it.
The same people maintain your accounts, watch your workloads, and design your changes, so context carries straight from operations into design.
Everything in Essential and Professional, plus engineering capacity for work that does not fit an operational cadence.
A specific person assigned to your account, carrying its history, available on an agreed basis for design work, decision support, and the questions that call for judgment.
Design review of proposed changes before they get built, and a partner for the decisions behind them. The recurring Well-Architected assessment ships from Essential up; this is the architect who works the findings with you and designs what replaces them.
Hands-on delivery for the projects that come out of advisory work: workload migrations, containerization, serverless adoption, multi-account restructuring. Executed by the team that will then operate the result.
Escalation into deep expertise for problems that stop being operational and start being architectural. Performance work, cost re-engineering, and the novel problems that have no documented answer.
Your architect is identified by name at the start, with agreed availability and named backup coverage.
Design and decision work comes first, so project scope is well informed before delivery starts.
Decisions and their reasoning are documented as they are made, in your repository, so your team can carry the work forward independently.
An agreed allocation, set at onboarding against what your roadmap requires. A team taking on a migration needs substantially more than a steady-state team, so we size it after understanding what you are planning.
Yes, and that is the point. Most of the value is context, not credentials, so a named architect who carries your environment’s history is worth more than a rotating pool. We name backup coverage too, so a vacation is not a service gap.
For many organizations, yes, at least for a while. If your AWS estate grows to where you need that judgment daily instead of weekly, hiring becomes better economics and we will tell you when we think you have crossed that line.
The tier is ongoing, but stepping up to Premium for the duration of a migration or authorization push and stepping back down afterward is a normal pattern, and the tiers are built to allow it.
No. Premium includes everything in Essential and Professional. The tiers are cumulative.
Workload migrations, containerization and serverless adoption, multi-account restructuring, cost re-engineering, and environment design for an authorization or validation effort. Very large programs may warrant separate scoping, and we will flag that early so the retainer stays right-sized.
Your architect works against your control set from the start, because compliance mapping is included from the entry tier up. Design choices are checked against your controls as they are made, well ahead of assessment.
Workload discovery, migration planning and sequencing, database and data movement, and cutover with validation.
Containers on ECS and EKS, serverless adoption, CI/CD and delivery automation, Infrastructure as Code, and application refactoring.
Everything in Essential plus workload operations: monitoring and alerting, alert response, patch management, incident handling, and recovery validation.
Multi-account AWS environments for federal, state, and local work, designed against FedRAMP, NIST, and CMMC control sets with evidence collection built in from the start.
Infrastructure as code, continuous compliance monitoring, and automated qualification evidence for regulated Life Sciences workloads on AWS.
Tell us what is on your roadmap for the next year and we will tell you whether you need an architect on retainer, a project, or a hire.
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