I will architect production AWS digitalocean gcp azure cloud infrastructure

Production multi-AZ AWS deployments running real traffic. Specific scale figures, architecture choices, and tooling decisions are discussed during pre-order scope review on request — happy to share relevant case studies once I understand your use case.

AWS: VPC, EC2, ECS, RDS, ALB, Auto Scaling, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, Route 53. GCP: Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Load Balancer, Monitoring. Azure: VM Scale Sets, App Service, Azure SQL, Monitor. DigitalOcean: Droplets, Managed DB, Load Balancers. Tooling: Terraform, native CLIs, GitHub Actions.

Premium delivers Terraform IaC — every resource defined in code, version-controlled, ready for your team to extend. Standard delivers initial console setup plus an IaC starter so future changes can move into code. Click-ops-only delivery creates maintenance debt and isn't offered.

Basic is an architecture recommendation tier — a written plan, not deployed infrastructure. Standard ($495) and Premium ($1,495) are the implementation tiers with scope defined upfront. This keeps every order's scope precisely matched to its tier and protects both of us from scope creep.

No — this gig is for new deployments and adding services to existing infrastructure. Migrating existing workloads has different scope and tooling (downtime, data sync, DR). For migration work, please see my Cloud Migration & DR gig, scoped and priced for that engagement type.

Yes — Premium tier scope can include compliance controls (encryption at rest and in transit, audit logging, IAM least-privilege, VPC isolation, secrets management). Flag compliance requirements in the intake form so I can confirm scope. Heavy compliance work may move to Custom Offer.

Yes, via Custom Offer after the initial deployment is delivered. Typical retainers run $4K–$8K per month for architecture advisory, infrastructure changes, and on-call response. Discussed after first delivery — I won't pitch a retainer that doesn't make sense for your use case.

For orders at $495 or higher, I require a brief message exchange to confirm scope before accepting. Not a sales call — just confirming we both agree on what's being built. This catches scope mismatches before work starts, which is the most common cause of failed cloud engagements.