Cloud Operations

Two OTT properties in production at multi-million-dollar annual AWS scale · Green account health · two-phase FinOps cost-down · AWS Backup DR + Config + Security Hub governed posture

6/6 pillars assessed · 5 HIGH-risk findings mapped to WA questions · phased 90-day remediation roadmap · 3-tier Security Accelerator (Tier 1 live)

Full six-pillar WAR delivered · 45 severity-ranked findings (26 high / 19 medium) · target-state remediation roadmap with a 20–30% cost-savings opportunity flagged for the FinOps cadence

Centralized multi-region cost visibility across the estate · CloudFront Savings Bundle on delivery · GRI->1-year commitments · CloudWatch log-cost + RDS extended-support remediated

Six-pillar Well-Architected Review · 7 owner-assigned High-Risk Issues + 30-60-90 roadmap · multi-region DR validated via AWS FIS game-days

Production QuickSight single-pane FinOps over the CUR — resource-level Lambda/RDS/intra-region cost visibility beyond Cost Explorer, replacing spreadsheet-driven cost review

The OpenSearch cost hotspot — the largest line on the AWS bill — attacked with index-lifecycle + storage-tiering + Archera commitments; Cost-Optimization WAR + CloudFormation cost dashboard delivered

Per-service cost profile (top-5 spend drivers) across the multi-account org · quantified RDS $480–530/mo, EC2 $180–350/mo + ~$1K/mo headroom, EBS ~20% · Compute Optimizer as the standing mechanism

6/6 pillars assessed · 55 risk items (39 High / 16 Medium) · ~$600/mo avoidable IPv4 cost identified · Top-5 remediation roadmap

Six-pillar-scoped Well-Architected Review · 23 high-risk findings documented · phased console-to-IaC remediation + HTTPS-to-MQTT IoT modernization

FinServ AI workload migrated cloud->AWS to production · GPU cost engineered down via Capacity Blocks for ML + Graviton · scoped multi-account FinOps with CUR visibility

Security-pillar WAFR delivered · IAM least-privilege remediation + federated identity to scoped roles · credential rotation and integrity restoration to a known-good baseline

~30% analytics-cost reduction migrating a provisioned Redshift warehouse to serverless Athena over S3, on a cleaned alternative-asset dataset

Security-pillar WAR completed · security-first multi-account remediation design (per-env isolation, least-privilege IAM, PrivateLink, hardened ECS) · measurable SLA target framework

~4-5 TB/day/customer in production · ingestion modernized to managed Firehose · 4 high-risk WA items closed · 30-40% per-search Lambda cost-reduction target (P95-guarded)

99.99% uptime including peak on-sale events · ~30% lower total IT cost · ~40% faster provisioning · near-instant Auto Scaling, migrated off Rackspace in four weeks

Consumer home-security IoT product live with an active install base, following the IoT Sense/Analyze/Act monitoring-and-alerting pattern

6 of 6 pillars assessed across 57 best-practice questions · 47 prioritized findings (31 High, 16 Medium) · per-pillar risk profile + top-5 strategic remediation roadmap

58% lower 3-year TCO (~3-month payback) · 1->3 environments, 1 AZ->Multi-AZ · ~10x faster releases · GDPR-aligned-by-architecture in eu-central-1

cghero.com rebuilt on Amazon CloudFront (Strapi/Amplify → WordPress/Lightsail) with WAF hardening, improved Core Web Vitals, and reduced third-party (Algolia) search cost via edge caching

Full WAFR (57 questions; 43 high-risk / 14 medium-risk) · customer-accepted Top-5 remediation roadmap · Control Tower landing-zone proposal · Cost Deep Dive surfacing ~$700/mo of savings

Live AWS-native incident response: three former-insider access events contained, the offline application restored within the first week, and the shared production/staging identity tenant separated with MFA-gated federation re-established

Multi-account governance via Organizations + Control Tower · long-running IAM access keys eliminated via Identity Center SSO · Security Hub activated for centralized security operations