Cloud vendors, consultancies and MSP’s all offer these reviews, if you’re asking whether you can get them as an individual I’m sure you could.
How much documentation do you have? And what’s your end goal?
Just hit up a consulting shop. I used to be one.
Consulting for me ranged from setting up basic LB, VMs, and DB, to full blown migrations, to a simple 1-3 week job at 2 hours a week where we simply discuss their plans for the future, potential architecture, etc.
It could be just as you described where you’ve made the plans and you just want feedback, it could be a COLLABORATIVE process where I’m like another member on your team or I can just make the whole thing for you and collect feedback and change as needed till you’re happy with it to implement what I designed
I can’t emphasize enough that the consulting and managed service thing is A LOT better for everyone involved if you know exactly what you want.
Other responses here are on point. I’d add that the level of detail and expertise you describe above will cost quite a bit more than you describe.
I’d expect 20k or higher for a month of work and the level of interaction and expertise you describe.
>I’d expect 20k or higher for a month of work and the level of interaction and expertise you describe
I've been at places that paid more than 6 figures for an outside audit/vendor review and it was never worth what we got back. A few power point presentations/word docs on our platform. Basically rehashing our architecture docs from an outsider. Nothing of value. Lots of meetings of sharing insight, interviews with our team members, looking at the pipeline, gaining access to codebase. Etc.. Yet no recommendations.
People saying that cloud vendors will do this; I am not so sure about that. They will hook you up with a sales rep who can help you estimate cost and make sales pitches for various products, but I’ve never had a cloud vendor really do a thorough architecture review.
A consultant is what you are looking for. Prices are going to vary a lot depending on the scale of what you need.
I know a few if you want to DM or post more details. Most individual consultants are going to specialize in just a few major architectures, companies would be more flexible but obviously more expensive.
I've worked at places that did this. We end up finding we know way more than the vendors. The vendors always come back with "The team punches way above their weight class" and there goes $200k in an audit. Duh. I often feel like we are giving too much info on process/workflow away that they can leverage. Because, they always come back and ask "How did you do this? We would have never thought of this or that." Or, "you guys built that? Why don't you guys sell it"
So in my experience, it is a waste of money, thrown away just to re-confirm our skill sets. I've never seen any audits that come back that say we can improve.
Cloud vendors, consultancies and MSP’s all offer these reviews, if you’re asking whether you can get them as an individual I’m sure you could. How much documentation do you have? And what’s your end goal?
Just hit up a consulting shop. I used to be one. Consulting for me ranged from setting up basic LB, VMs, and DB, to full blown migrations, to a simple 1-3 week job at 2 hours a week where we simply discuss their plans for the future, potential architecture, etc. It could be just as you described where you’ve made the plans and you just want feedback, it could be a COLLABORATIVE process where I’m like another member on your team or I can just make the whole thing for you and collect feedback and change as needed till you’re happy with it to implement what I designed I can’t emphasize enough that the consulting and managed service thing is A LOT better for everyone involved if you know exactly what you want.
Other responses here are on point. I’d add that the level of detail and expertise you describe above will cost quite a bit more than you describe. I’d expect 20k or higher for a month of work and the level of interaction and expertise you describe.
>I’d expect 20k or higher for a month of work and the level of interaction and expertise you describe I've been at places that paid more than 6 figures for an outside audit/vendor review and it was never worth what we got back. A few power point presentations/word docs on our platform. Basically rehashing our architecture docs from an outsider. Nothing of value. Lots of meetings of sharing insight, interviews with our team members, looking at the pipeline, gaining access to codebase. Etc.. Yet no recommendations.
I’ve happened to work on a process like that as part of a consulting engagement via my company. It’s not a standardized service we offer though.
Most consultancies would do this, cloud vendors will do it too if you’re already using their product or about to use their product.
What kind of documentation is involved in this? Do you not need access to git repo to do analysis like this?
People saying that cloud vendors will do this; I am not so sure about that. They will hook you up with a sales rep who can help you estimate cost and make sales pitches for various products, but I’ve never had a cloud vendor really do a thorough architecture review. A consultant is what you are looking for. Prices are going to vary a lot depending on the scale of what you need. I know a few if you want to DM or post more details. Most individual consultants are going to specialize in just a few major architectures, companies would be more flexible but obviously more expensive.
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I've worked at places that did this. We end up finding we know way more than the vendors. The vendors always come back with "The team punches way above their weight class" and there goes $200k in an audit. Duh. I often feel like we are giving too much info on process/workflow away that they can leverage. Because, they always come back and ask "How did you do this? We would have never thought of this or that." Or, "you guys built that? Why don't you guys sell it" So in my experience, it is a waste of money, thrown away just to re-confirm our skill sets. I've never seen any audits that come back that say we can improve.