Cloud consulting for AWS, Google Cloud and Azure, in code
Migration plans, infrastructure as code and cost reviews.
Fixed-price packageDiscoveryUSD 7,0001–4 weeksCI/CD & IaC build or re-architectureUSD 4,0002 weeks
Everything in code, every bill line attributed
Where it runs, in code
- AWSEKS with dev and production in separate accounts. Terraform and OpenTofu with Atlantis.
- Google CloudCloud Run, Cloud SQL Postgres, Cloud Storage and a load balancer with Cloud Armor, all OpenTofu.
- AzureThe same method. No published case yet.
The bill, line by line
- Read every line of the bill
- Attribute each line to a service or a team
- Act where the money is
Where the money usually is
- Workloads sized above their historical peaks
- Tools billed per volume that open source can replace
- Environments nobody uses
One data point
about USD 5,000a month less in observability spend
A US transportation services company moved metrics and logs off a commercial APM.
A saving shows up on the invoice or it isn't one.
A plan is read before every apply, and a change that would destroy something stops first.
What does a cloud consultant do?
A cloud consultant decides how a product should run on a cloud provider and then builds it: the account and network layout, the compute and database services, identity and secrets, infrastructure as code, the release path, and a review of what each part costs. At Clouditive every resource lives in code with a plan you read before it applies, and a change that would destroy something stops first.
DX Clouditive belongs to the partner programs of AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Our published cases run on AWS and Google Cloud; we work on Azure in the same way, in code.
Start with Discovery (USD 7,000, 1 to 4 weeks) when the target is still open, or with CI/CD & IaC (USD 4,000, 2 weeks) when the cloud is decided and the infrastructure has to be built or rebuilt in code.
What you get, step by step
Everything in the package, in the order it lands. The price and the duration stay the same.
Step 1:
Understand your product and its configuration end to end.
Step 2:
A full roadmap: backlog, roles, critical changes and needs.
Step 3:
Daily meetings and progress reviews with your team.
1–4 weeks
USD 7,000
Want to keep going after the package? Add engineers by the hour at the published rates, with a 6-month minimum term. How staff augmentation works.
Proven on real work
Real clients, dated figures, and a plain note on what was not done.
Investment analytics / FintechStatus: Production platform, work ongoingAbout 3x more production releases per week: from 1.15 a week (April to July 2026) to 3.7 to 4.0 a week (last 30 days)Read the case
AI marketing / MarTechStatus: Built end to end by Clouditive89 releases in 10 days, v1.0.0 to v1.61.0, every production deploy checked to run the exact tested buildRead the case- Transportation platform engineeringStatus: Ongoing, phase 1 deliveredRoughly 3x more production deployments per day since the engagement began (organization-wide)Read the case
Clouditive built our product with us goal by goal: the AI with its judge panel, the Google Cloud platform and 854 test files. We shipped 89 releases in 10 days, each checked to run the exact tested build, and a person still approves every piece.
Sebastian Tavul, CEOPrefer to pay by the hour?
Add engineers to your own team at the published rates instead of buying a package.
- You interviewYou meet the engineer who will do the work.
- 6-month minimumBilled per hour worked.
- Free replacementIf they leave or don't fit, we replace them and cover the handover at no cost.
- Lead / ArchitectUSD55–60per hour
- SeniorUSD45–50per hour
- MidUSD35–40per hour
- JuniorUSD30per hour
USD per hour, drawn to one scale
Frequently asked questions
Which clouds do you work on?
AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. DX Clouditive belongs to the partner programs of all three. Our published cases run on AWS EKS and on Google Cloud.
Do you have an Azure case?
Not a published one yet. We work on Azure the same way we work on AWS and Google Cloud: infrastructure as code, a plan read before every apply, and releases that deploy the exact tested build.
How much does cloud consulting cost?
Discovery is USD 7,000 for 1 to 4 weeks and ends with a roadmap. CI/CD & IaC is USD 4,000 for 2 weeks. By the hour, a Senior engineer is USD 45–50 and a Lead or Architect USD 55–60.
Which infrastructure-as-code tools do you use?
OpenTofu and Terraform with encrypted state, Atlantis for plan review and Crossplane for self-service infrastructure on Kubernetes.
Can you cut our cloud bill?
We start by attributing every line of the bill. For one client, moving metrics and logs off a commercial APM saved about USD 5,000 a month. We don't promise a percentage before reading your bill.
Start from the bill itself, line by line, and attribute every line to a service or a team before changing anything. Then act where the money is: workloads sized above their historical peaks, tools billed per volume that open-source alternatives can replace, and environments nobody uses. For a US transportation services company, moving metrics and logs off a commercial APM to open-source observability cut about USD 5,000 a month.
A case is one client's result, not a promise. A saving shows up on the invoice or it isn't one, so we measure it there.
Do you offer 24x7 support?
No. We work in your business hours and leave alerts and runbooks so your own on-call can resolve incidents.
Who owns the accounts and the code?
You do. Engineers use your own accounts and identities with SSO and MFA, least privilege, revoked at exit, and all code is yours from day 1.
In which language do you work?
100% in English, Spanish or Portuguese, whichever your team uses. Our engineers are in LATAM, between UTC−3 and UTC−5.
AWS consulting: EKS with separate dev and prod accounts
For a fintech portfolio-analytics SaaS platform we run platform engineering on AWS EKS, with dev and production in separate accounts. Infrastructure goes through Terraform and OpenTofu with Atlantis, and a move to Crossplane runs as zero-downtime cutovers, each with a rollback.
Releases promote through Argo CD and Kargo with automatic checks, and the cost figures in the developer portal come straight from the cloud billing API.
Google Cloud consulting: a full platform in OpenTofu
For an AI marketing platform we built from zero, the whole Google Cloud setup is OpenTofu: Cloud Run services and jobs, Cloud SQL Postgres with a private IP, Cloud Storage, a global load balancer with Cloud Armor, KMS, workload identity and Secret Manager.
A BigQuery billing ledger and a per-call cost ledger show what each part of the product costs. Releases are tag-driven, migrate the database and deploy by image digest.
How do you plan a cloud migration without downtime?
Write the target in infrastructure as code first, so every create, change and destroy shows up in a plan before anything moves. Then move one service at a time, each step with a cutover you can reverse and a check that proves the new path works. We ran infrastructure moves this way on a fintech platform, as zero-downtime cutovers with a rollback for each. Discovery ends with that sequence in the roadmap.
We don't publish a cloud-to-cloud migration case yet. What we publish is the method and the infrastructure work behind it.
By the hour or at a fixed price
Add a cloud or platform engineer to your team at our published rates (Senior USD 45–50 an hour, 6-month minimum), or hire an architect 20 hours a week for USD 4,480 a month.
Tell us your case.
We reply to every request within 1 business day. We sign an NDA before the call if you ask.