Cloud Consulting Services that name what to change, and what to leave alone.
We provide cloud consulting services for teams making AWS or Azure architecture, security and cost decisions. We assess the estate and deliver a ranked plan: what to change, what to leave alone and who should carry out each recommendation.
- 120+Projects delivered across 12 countries since 2012
- 100+Senior in-house engineers, six countries
- 5.0Unified rating across 61 client reviews on Clutch
- AWS CertifiedSolutions Architects on the team
- ISO 27001Certified security practice, audited by Quay Audit UK
01Overview
Cloud consulting for a defined decision
We scope the review around the investment or architecture decision your team needs to make. The written recommendation informs execution that is commissioned separately.
- The roadmap names who executes each stepThe roadmap names the work and its proposed owner: your engineers, your current partner or a commissioned execution team. We define the decision records and handover needed to act on it.
- Read-only, and scoped before it startsFor the assessment, the NDA precedes read-only, least-privilege access to billing and architecture. Your technical contact agrees the accounts and environments in scope before it starts.
- A sequence, not a findings listRecommendations are ranked against benefit, effort and dependencies. The report explains the priorities and identifies what should remain as it is.
- Execution after the recommendationMigration executes the move, infrastructure builds the target environment, and DevOps develops the delivery practice. The advisory engagement defines which work to commission.
02Proof
Cloud engineering judgment behind the recommendations
We bring cloud and application engineering experience to the decisions about your estate.
- Patrick W. reported AWS costs down by 30% or morePatrick W. credited our AWS and Heroku knowledge during development and staff-augmentation work on the B2B SaaS platform. He also described support scoping future AI projects and faster product rollouts than with his previous service provider.30%+lower AWS costs reported by Patrick W. in his 2024 review of the B2B SaaS platform's development and staff-augmentation work
- Understanding the objective of an Azure moveCrik-IT's applications moved from old hosting to Azure. Stephanie Allemann, President of Crik-IT LLC, reported: "Rather than simply following instructions, they put in the time to understand the underlying objective or goal of the project."Eliminatedprior platform downtime after the Azure move, described in our Crik-IT case account, with latency also reduced
- Planning alongside a cloud company's internal teamTal, CEO of a cloud solutions company, described guidance and support for the internal team's project planning and technical obstacles. His verified Clutch review credited that assistance with contributing to development of the solution.AWS CertifiedSolutions Architects at unicrew
03Compare
Choose who will own the cloud recommendation
Compare the review scope, platform coverage and time available to make the decision. A capable internal owner, your incumbent partner and provider services can be suitable alongside independent advisory.
| Cloud consultingunicrew | Your own team on native toolingDIY | The cloud provider's own servicesVendor |
|---|---|---|
| Best forA commissioned assessment of architecture, security and costs, with ranked recommendations for an investment or operating decision. | Best forA team with estate knowledge, review skills and time to assess options and maintain the decision records. | Best forPlatform-specific architecture or service guidance within the provider's advisory remit. |
| What it asks of youAgreed read access, business constraints and time with technical owners to review the recommendations. | What it asks of youEngineering time, commercial input and a process for comparing assumptions and assigning the resulting work. | What it asks of youChecking the service scope, data access and which platform or application decisions remain with your team. |
| You end up owningThe agreed recommendation, architecture decisions and handover records, with execution responsibilities and rights defined. | You end up owningAn internally maintained roadmap and the operational knowledge and decision process behind it. | You end up owningThe recommendations and artifacts covered by the provider's service terms, with your own cross-platform decisions retained. |
Quick self-check
Tick what is true of the environment you are paying for now. The read-out updates as you go.
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Choose the decision or execution scope
Use advisory to compare the estate's options or confirm what to retain. DevOps consulting develops the delivery practice; cloud migration runs an agreed move. We scope the engagement around the decision or work you need.
Talk it throughScope the cloud question
Identify the decision, the accounts involved and the people who own the systems. The review can focus on that question and the dependencies needed to answer it.
Talk it throughDefine the review priorities
We agree which architecture, security or cost questions the recommendation should address. Your technical and commercial owners provide the requirements and review the proposed priorities.
Book a discovery callBuild the ranked recommendation
Review the relevant accounts and dependencies, then compare the changes against benefit, effort and constraints. AI-readiness can be included where a proposed workload makes it relevant.
Book a discovery callDecide the execution owner
The recommendation records the priorities, assumptions and proposed owners. Your team decides what to commission and who executes it, with the implementation scope and handover agreed separately.
Start with the auditThe savings in a cloud bill usually sit in what the estate already runs, so that is where we start. The first deliverable is a ranked list of what to change, in what order, and what to leave as it is.
Yaroslav HavrylivSenior Engineering Manager, unicrew04Capabilities
The decisions a cloud consulting engagement supports
We turn architecture, cost and operating questions into documented options and priorities.
- Cloud infrastructure audit
An audit of the estate you actually have
Ranked by saving against effortWe assess the AWS or Azure estate in scope: architecture, dependencies, security posture and costs. Findings connect the current environment to the requirements behind the decision.
- Cloud cost optimization
FinOps and cost control
Against your real billWe compare resource sizing, storage, data-transfer charges and commitments with usage and the invoice. Recommendations record estimated cost effects, assumptions and implementation effort. For the practice behind this work, read what cloud financial management is.
- Cloud strategy and roadmap
Should you move, stay, or split it?
Dependencies mapped firstWe compare retained, relocated and hybrid workloads against their dependencies and requirements. The cloud strategy records the recommended changes and their sequence; an accepted move is executed through cloud migration.
- Cloud architecture consulting
Architecture and platform decisions
The reasoning written downWe compare public, private and hybrid deployment, containers and managed services against the application and operating needs. Architecture decisions document the trade-offs and where Infrastructure as Code is appropriate.
- Cloud security and compliance review
Security posture, as one input
Policy an auditor can readWe review access controls, encryption in transit and at rest, and configuration policies with your security owners. The roadmap records recommended controls; cybersecurity consulting covers a dedicated security engagement.
- CI/CD and reliability review
Can your release process carry this?
CI/CD, monitoring, on-callWe assess pipelines, monitoring and on-call responsibilities against the proposed environment. Recommendations identify the delivery and operating changes to scope through DevOps consulting.
- Cloud AI readiness assessment
Whether AI can land on this estate
Architecture, data, access modelWe assess architecture, data pipelines, access and capacity against the proposed AI workload. The recommendation identifies readiness, dependencies and changes needed for its processing, security and cost requirements.
- Cloud training and handover
Team enablement and handover
Training and a written handoverWe document the decisions, proposed roles and review responsibilities. Training and handover are defined for the people who will implement and operate the recommended changes.
05Trust
The ranked plan and its operating owners
We record assumptions and handover scope so the recommendation stays useful after the review, whether your team or another partner executes it.
- RankedA roadmap ordered by saving against effortEach change carries what it is worth, so the budget argument starts from evidence
- SeparableA plan that works without usExecute it in-house or hand it to another firm; nothing in it is written to make that hard
- Read-onlyProduced without touching productionBilling and architecture access under NDA, the accounts named in writing before it starts
07Engagement
Choose the advisory and execution scope
Choose by how long your team needs cloud engineering advice and who will execute the accepted recommendation.
A fixed-scope audit
Written reportWe review the agreed accounts against the cost and architecture questions in scope, then deliver a ranked report and a working session. The review is quoted on its own; there is no minimum engagement period.
- Best when
- You need a second opinion, or a number, before you commit budget
- You pay
- Outcome based, quoted per project
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
Advisory alongside your team
Judgment onlyWe join planning and review cycles to compare architecture and cost options and document the decisions. Your team retains delivery and product priorities; the engagement defines the advisory responsibilities.
- Best when
- You have the engineers and need senior judgment on the big calls
- You pay
- Billed hourly, quoted per project
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
Advise, then execute
Same teamOnce you approve the roadmap, we scope execution separately and plan continuity with the assigned team. The work can proceed as a migration, infrastructure, or DevOps engagement, with roles and handover defined.
- Best when
- The plan is agreed and you do not have the bench to execute it
- You pay
- Billed monthly, per team member
- Typical start
- Two to four weeks
Review the findings and roadmap you already have
We assess existing findings against the current estate and decision, including their assumptions, priorities and owners. That establishes the scope for any further review or implementation. Ongoing operating work can be scoped with a managed team.
08Industries
Cloud decisions in their business context
Business and technical owners define the requirements that make a cloud recommendation useful. We connect those requirements to the application workflows.
Logistics and transportation
Assess order, freight and fleet dependencies alongside capacity and operating ownership. Review the storage and integration requirements in freight-management workflows and moving-company operations.
Hospitality and leisure
Compare capacity, storage and integration choices against the booking workflow. The hotel and hotel-network example transitioned from outdated Azure services to newer cloud offerings for storage, processing and scalability.
Healthcare
Define data access, processing locations and operating responsibilities for home-health monitoring workflows. Review the architecture and capacity choices against the requirements approved by the responsible owners.
E-commerce and marketplaces
Assess capacity, costs and data interfaces for manufacturing and commerce workflows and consumer marketplaces. The recommendation connects platform choices to the storefront, product and order requirements.
Fintech and accounting
Review access, encryption and integration choices for the financial data in bookkeeping workflows. Record the security requirements and owners alongside the architecture recommendation.
EdTech and research
Plan ownership, training and adoption for research and learning applications. The client of the university time-tracking tool reported project-leader adoption growth in 2017. Learning-platform search and AI work provides related application context.
Discuss the cloud decision and review scope
Tell us which decision your team needs to make about the estate. We discuss the review goals, account scope and owners who will use the recommendation.
What happens after you contact us
- We reply within one business dayWe respond to your enquiry and arrange the next conversation about advisory scope.
- A scoping call about the estateWe discuss the AWS or Azure accounts, the decision to support and the relevant business constraints.
- An agreed scope and timeframe, in writingThe proposal records the accounts, review questions, deliverables, access and timeframe before the engagement starts.
- You decide, with no pressureYou review the proposed scope and deliverables. Most engagements start within two to four weeks.
09Delivery
From cloud consulting scope to the ranked recommendation
Your technical and business decision-makers review the assumptions and priorities.
- Scope and accessWe define the review questions, accounts and environments with your decision-maker and technical contact. The NDA precedes read-only, least-privilege access for the assessment.You getAn agreed scope and timeframe, in writing, before the review begins.
- AssessWe compare spend with usage and review the architecture, dependencies and security posture in scope. Where relevant, we assess requirements for a proposed AI workload. Your operating owners explain the environment and confirm the data and constraints.You getAn honest read on what is working, what is not, and what it is costing you.
- RankWe rank proposed changes against estimated benefit, effort, dependencies and constraints. The report records the assumptions behind cost effects and the reasons to retain suitable systems. Your decision-maker reviews the priorities.You getA prioritized roadmap: what to change, in what order, and what each change is worth.
- Decide the controls and the ownerWe recommend security policies, cost guardrails and architecture decisions with the responsible owners. Your team reviews the requirements and assigns who would execute each change; implementation and operating responsibilities are recorded for the next scope.You getWritten policies, guardrails, and architecture decisions, each with a named owner.
- Readout, then reviewWe present the ranked report and discuss its trade-offs in a working session. Your team decides which changes to commission. Infrastructure, migration or DevOps execution is scoped separately, with any continuing review agreed for the engagement.You getA working session on the findings, and a standing invitation to bring the environment back for review.
10Client voices
Client reviews of planning and engineering work
Artelogic has enabled us to develop and roll out products significantly faster than our previous service provider. The team has great knowledge of AWS and Heroku, which has helped us streamline and reduce costs. Artelogic has helped us reduce our AWS costs by 30% or more.
Up until a year and a half ago, I handled all the development and support of our application myself and I needed help. I brought in Artelogic, and it was one of the best business decisions I’ve ever made.
We’re one of unicrew’s smaller clients, but they’re always incredibly quick to respond. When we have issues, they treat them as if they’re extremely important. We feel like we have a partner, and that’s been incredible. That’s why we’ll keep them on for as long as we can.
Single point of contact. Very clear in communications and finding solutions as a team. Flexible when requirements changed. They deliver in a highly professional way while being in a volatile and insecure situation.
11Case studies
Cloud-platform development and workflow automation
These studies cover B2B cloud-platform development and custom workflow automation. Client reviews naming Artelogic refer to unicrew under our former brand.
See all case studies- SaaSAWS costs down 30%+ for a US B2B SaaS platformunicrew became the programming team for a B2B SaaS platform that had run for over a decade, streamlined how it used AWS and Heroku, and sped up rollouts.30%+Lower AWS costs
- AutomationDoubling data-entry throughput with a custom recognition toolunicrew automated a manual data-entry bottleneck with a C# and AWS recognition tool, doubling the data sets the team got through each month.2xData sets processed per month
12Questions
Questions about cloud consulting
Before you commission cloud consulting, agree which decision the review must resolve and how you will use the recommendation.
We quote cloud consulting against the review goals, accounts, architecture and data in scope, and the depth of security or AI-readiness assessment required. The proposal defines the deliverables and working responsibilities.
Billing follows the engagement:
- Fixed price: outcome based, quoted per project.
- Time and materials: billed hourly, quoted per project.
- Team extension: billed monthly per team member.
A standalone audit is one option; advisory alongside your team and any later execution have their own scope.
The timeframe depends on the review questions, accounts, available records and time needed with the technical and business owners. We agree it with the advisory scope and deliverables.
A fixed-scope review has a defined endpoint. Continuing advisory has an agreed review remit and cadence. Execution is planned separately against the accepted recommendation. There is no standard duration that applies to every consulting engagement.
We base the recommendation on your applications, data flows and integration constraints. Your system owners confirm the required behavior and the assumptions that need checking before execution.
Our related platform work includes a hotel booking system transitioning from outdated Azure services and business applications moving from old hosting to Azure. For your estate, ERP, CRM, payment and data-warehouse dependencies inform the options, sequence and scope. Implementation compatibility is verified within the separately commissioned build or move.
We compare deployment and service choices against the application, data, security, cost and operating requirements. Public, private and hybrid environments, containers and managed services each need to fit those requirements.
The report explains the trade-offs, dependencies and proposed owners, then ranks the changes and identifies what to retain. Your technical and business decision-makers review the recommendation before execution is scoped.
Yes. We assess the cost drivers and recommend changes against usage, application requirements and implementation effort. That can include resource sizing, storage, transfer charges, licensing and commitments.
A deep-dive audit is the bounded option when the invoice is the main question. Broader consulting can compare cost choices alongside architecture and security. The recommendation records estimated effects and assumptions; implementation and its measured result follow under a separate scope.
Your current partner's estate knowledge is valuable, and they can be a suitable owner for the review. We add a separate engineering perspective and a written comparison of options for the decision you need to make.
We can work with their technical owners and assess existing findings against the current requirements. The recommendation records assumptions, priorities and handover responsibilities so the agreed execution team can use it.
We include operating ownership and skill requirements in the recommendation. The plan identifies who reviews decisions and who would implement and operate the changes.
Your managers confirm responsibilities and training needs. We define the working sessions, decision records and handover for those owners within the scope. Adoption and ongoing operation need assigned people and review, alongside the architecture choices.
unicrew is ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified, renewed through a multi-stage audit with Quay Audit UK. We have AWS Certified Solutions Architects and ISTQB-certified QA engineers; these are company people credentials, not a default staffing assignment or certification of your environment.
For the assessment or audit, the NDA precedes read-only, least-privilege access agreed with your technical contact. We define the accounts, review data and handling requirements before it starts. Any build, operation or support access is scoped separately.
Compare the decision the review supports, the recommendation it produces and the responsibilities for acting on it.
- Agree the questions, accounts, access and data-handling scope.
- Check how priorities, estimated effects and assumptions are documented.
- Confirm handover, artifact rights and who can execute the recommendation.
- Verify project evidence and credentials against the work they actually describe.
Native and cost-management tools can support the assessment. Your team or an advisory partner still needs to evaluate the inputs and turn them into priorities for the business decision.