Fixed-scope engagement · Cloud platforms · C1

When a team is late,
what do they skip first?

If the answer is the review gate, your guardrails are not holding. In 2 to 3 weeks we assess your landing zone against the Well-Architected framework, with evidence from the estate. You leave with a backlog someone can fix.

2 to 3Weeks,
fixed scope
From 9kEuros, indicative,
fixed in the proposal
3Clouds: Azure,
AWS and GCP
9Enablement sessions
after one assessment
You recognise this

Findings pile up.
Teams route around.

Teams route around controls. Findings pile up before every audit. A release waits days for a review that checks the same things each time. The landing zone was built before the current team arrived, and nobody has assessed it since.

The root cause we test

Guardrails applied as gates, not as modules. A control that needs a request gets bypassed. A module a team can use on its own gets adopted.

The future state most teams describe

Compliant by default, with no review step.

Two numbers we ask for first

Days per release lost to review gates. Audit findings still open. The assessment turns them into a gap you can price.

Who it is for

Four people who ask for this.

01

CTOs and Heads of Platform

At mid-size enterprises on Azure or AWS, with a landing zone nobody has assessed since it was built.

02

MSP practice leads and delivery directors

Who need an independent, senior assessment of a client's platform, delivered under their name or ours.

03

Public sector and healthcare

Organisations working through an MSP, where audit evidence has to come from the estate.

04

Operator platform teams

With Kubernetes in scope: AKS, EKS or GKE.

What we check

Evidence from the estate,
not interviews alone.

Every finding points at a resource someone can fix.

Week 1

Evidence

Read access to the estate. We pull Resource Graph on Azure or Config on AWS, with Traffic Analytics or flow logs. We read policy state, identity and access, the pipelines, and the Terraform or Bicep that built it. One interview per owning team, after we have read the estate.

Week 2

Findings

Findings against the pillars of the Well-Architected framework and against the landing-zone design. That covers identity, network topology, policy and governance as code, pipelines, the monitoring baseline, and Kubernetes defaults when AKS, EKS or GKE is in scope. Each finding is tied to a resource, a policy or a pipeline.

Week 3

Backlog and read-out

A prioritised remediation backlog with owners, in your backlog tool. A read-out with the people who will fix it. A proposal for what follows, or a note that says nothing needs to.

What you leave with
  • Findings against the Well-Architected framework, each tied to evidence from your estate.
  • A prioritised remediation backlog with owners, in your backlog tool.
  • A one-page summary for your board or your client: what holds, what does not, and what it takes to fix.
  • The gap in your numbers: days per release and open findings today, and what the backlog changes.
  • A proposal for what follows, with its trigger named. If the evidence says stop, we say stop.
Duration, price and the follow-on

Fixed scope. Fixed price.

2 to 3 weeks, one landing zone

From 9,000 euros, excluding VAT. The indicative band is 9,000 to 14,000 euros, depending on the number of subscriptions or accounts and whether Kubernetes clusters are in scope. The price is fixed in the proposal before we start.

Duration2 to 3 weeks.
PriceFrom 9,000 euros, excluding VAT. Indicative band 9,000 to 14,000 euros, fixed in the proposal before we start.
What moves itThe number of subscriptions or accounts, and whether Kubernetes clusters are in scope.
The follow-onOne of two things. A remediation sprint, where the Atsky bench fixes the top findings and ships the guardrails as self-service modules. Or an enablement block of six to nine sessions for the team that inherits the platform. The proposal names which one and what would trigger it.
DeliveryBy the Atsky bench, through your MSP partner or directly. A small senior team in Amsterdam and Miami, work-authorised in the EU and the US.
Proof

Two assessments that held.

For a Dutch municipality, through our MSP partner Infield ICT, we assessed an AKS landing zone built on Bicep and Azure DevOps against the Well-Architected framework. Resource Graph and Traffic Analytics were the evidence, so every finding pointed at a resource someone could fix. The in-house team then ran the platform itself after a nine-session enablement programme. At Liberty Global and Virgin Media we defined the guardrails for AWS, Azure and GCP and shipped them as self-service Terraform modules and pipeline templates. A team that used the modules was compliant by default, and nobody waited for a review.

Three questions, answered

What people ask before they book.

"We already have a partner."

Good. Our public-sector and healthcare work arrives through MSP partners. We deliver under their name or ours, and the backlog goes to whoever fixes it.

"Will this turn into a pitch for a build?"

No. The proposal names the follow-on and its trigger. If the evidence says nothing follows, we say so.

"What do we need to give you?"

Read access to the estate, one owner per team for a 45-minute interview, and the two numbers above.

Start with a
working session.

A 45-minute working session: we walk through a landing-zone assessment we did and take your questions. No slides and no proposal.

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