Question 1

How much can I expect to save on my AWS bill?

Accepted Answer

It depends on how much drift has accumulated in your environment, but 30–70% reductions are common in systems that haven't had a dedicated cost review in over a year. Savings are quantified in the audit before any implementation decision is made.

Question 2

Do you implement the changes, or just deliver a report?

Accepted Answer

The standard engagement is the audit and remediation plan. Hands-on implementation is available as a separate, higher-cost add-on for teams that want the work done rather than handed off.

Question 3

Will implementation require downtime?

Accepted Answer

No. Remediation plans are designed to be executed against live production systems without service interruption.

Question 4

What kinds of systems do you work with?

Accepted Answer

Any team running production workloads on AWS. Particular depth in systems with compliance or uptime constraints, but the audit approach applies broadly.

Question 5

How do you modernize a system without breaking production?

Accepted Answer

Through an incremental, sequenced plan: running old and new systems in parallel where needed, validating against real production behavior before cutover, and always defining a rollback path before a change ships.

Question 6

What if the legacy system has no documentation?

Accepted Answer

That's the typical starting condition for this kind of engagement. The assessment phase includes reverse-engineering the system's actual behavior and dependencies, not just reading what documentation exists.

Question 7

Do you only work with financial systems?

Accepted Answer

No. Background includes deep experience in compliance-heavy financial systems, but the assessment and modernization approach applies to any critical legacy system, regardless of industry.

Question 8

Is legacy modernization a one-time project or ongoing work?

Accepted Answer

Both models work. Some engagements are a single scoped assessment and roadmap; others continue into phased execution over multiple quarters.

Question 9

Can zero-downtime release advisory work for a team with brittle, tightly-coupled legacy architecture?

Accepted Answer

Yes, that's the typical starting point, not an edge case. The engagement begins with an assessment that acknowledges current constraints and builds a phased path forward rather than assuming resilient architecture is already in place.

Question 10

Does zero-downtime release advisory require a full architecture rebuild?

Accepted Answer

No. The roadmap is sequenced to start with the highest-impact, lowest-effort changes first. A full rebuild is sometimes part of a long-term roadmap, but it's never the starting requirement.

Question 11

What's the difference between zero-downtime release advisory and general DevOps consulting?

Accepted Answer

This is specifically about de-risking the moment of release (feature flags, dark deployments, and rollback design), not general CI/CD tooling or infrastructure management.

Question 12

Does zero-downtime release advisory require availability during a live cutover?

Accepted Answer

Most of the work (the assessment, roadmap, and infrastructure design) is async. Live availability is only needed if the optional cutover-support add-on is engaged, and even then the goal is a short, low-stakes window rather than a required war-room event.