Measure the service first
Look at reliability, delivery flow and cost together so optimisation does not move the problem elsewhere.
Cloud, DevOps and SRE engineering focused on reliability, release flow and cost rather than cloud for its own sake.
Cloud becomes expensive and fragile when architecture, deployment practices, observability and ownership evolve separately. A cheaper bill with slower releases is not an improvement, and neither is faster delivery with weak recovery.
Select each step to see how we would move the work forward without turning it into a larger programme than necessary.
Look at reliability, delivery flow and cost together so optimisation does not move the problem elsewhere.
Simplify pipelines, environments and deployment controls that create avoidable risk.
Make observability, rollback and incident ownership part of the platform.
Reduce waste where it does not compromise resilience or developer flow.
We keep deliverables tied to decisions, delivery and ownership. The exact format changes with the workstream; these are the outputs we would expect to leave behind.
Bring us in when cloud cost is rising, releases feel fragile or incidents expose gaps between application and platform teams.
The current problem, the outcome you need and what cannot be disrupted are enough to start.