Cloud & DevOps
Your cloud bill isn't the problem. Your cloud architecture is.
Most teams optimize the symptoms — pruning instances, chasing savings plans, arguing about reserved pricing — when the real cost lives one layer deeper, in how the system was put together in the first place. Critonyx is the cloud and DevOps partnership for teams that want to fix the architecture, not the invoice.
The problem
Most cloud setups aren't designed. They're accumulated.
The first engineer spun up a server. The next one added a database. Someone added a queue when the system started buckling. Then a function for a quick fix. Then another service. Then a cluster, because someone read a blog post.
Three years in, nobody can draw the architecture on a whiteboard. Deployments are a ritual. Incidents take half a day to diagnose because logs live in four different places. The cloud bill has tripled and nobody can say which slice of it is actually needed.
This isn't unusual. It's the default. Cloud platforms make it easy to add things and almost impossible to think clearly about what you've added. The companies that stop accumulating and start designing their infrastructure are the ones that ship daily, recover in minutes, and stop spending half their engineering time fighting the system.
Our commitments
Three commitments. Most cloud partners won't make them.
We start with the architecture, not the invoice.
The fastest way to cut a cloud bill is to fix the system that's generating it. Right-sizing, savings plans, and reserved instances are tactics. They don't matter if the underlying architecture is wasteful by design.
We make the runbook before we make the change.
Most cloud work fails the first time something goes wrong in production. The migration ran clean, but nobody knew what to do when an incident hit at three in the morning. We build the operational substrate alongside the architecture — runbooks, alerting, observability, and escalation paths.
We hand over real ownership.
Cloud and DevOps engagements quietly become hostage situations, where the partner owns the only people who understand the setup. We refuse to operate that way. Every system we build comes with documented architecture, written decision logs, and the access patterns your team needs to take it over tomorrow.
What we build
What we actually build
Cloud architecture for products that need to scale
Services, data layer, network topology, security posture, and cost ceiling — the whiteboard sketch becomes the system.
Migrations off legacy or self-hosted infrastructure
Strangler patterns, parallel running, dependency mapping, and zero-downtime cutovers. We've moved monoliths off dedicated servers, lifted SaaS products to multi-region, and migrated between major cloud providers when the business case demanded it.
DevOps maturity for teams shipping daily
CI/CD pipelines that actually catch problems, infrastructure as code that doesn't drift, observability that tells you what's broken before customers do, and deploy automation that lets junior engineers ship to production safely.
Cloud cost re-architecture
We audit the spend, identify the structural waste, and rebuild the expensive parts, without dropping reliability or shipping velocity. Most engagements pay for themselves inside the first quarter.
Compliance-grade infrastructure for regulated workloads
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, and ISO 27001 — built into the architecture, not retrofitted before an audit.
Before we build
The Critonyx Cloud Audit
A one-week structured engagement. We look at the architecture, the bill, the deployment pipeline, the observability stack, the incident history, and the parts of the cloud nobody opens. You walk out with a written read on the state of your infrastructure, and a prioritised list of what to fix, what to leave alone, and what's about to break.
Most teams save more than the Audit cost in their first quarter, usually by retiring one or two structural decisions that were quietly compounding.
You walk out with
- A plain-English architecture map of your current setup
- The three structural problems that will cost you most over the next 12 months
- A prioritised rebuild plan with realistic cost and timeline modelling
- A cost re-architecture estimate: what's saveable, what isn't, and how to get there
- A written decision brief, not a slide deck
Proof
“They cut our cloud bill in half and we stopped having weekend incidents. We didn't expect both.”
Engineering Lead, Regional e-commerce
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What happens after you reach out
30-minute fit call
You describe the system, the symptoms, the bill, and the incident pattern. By the end of the call, we'll tell you whether this is an architecture problem, a process problem, or a team problem, because the fix is different for each.
The Cloud Audit
Recommended. One week, written recommendation.
Scoping & architecture
If we're building or migrating, we map it: scope, timeline, milestones, and cost ceiling.
Build & deploy
Most engagements have measurable wins in 4 to 8 weeks. Full re-architectures in 12 to 20.
Partnership or handover
Your call — we're built to support either path.
The cheapest cloud is the one designed properly the first time.
If your bill is climbing faster than your business, your deploys are getting slower, or your team is spending more time fighting infrastructure than building product, that's a structural problem. Thirty minutes. No deck, no pitch. We'll tell you whether what you have is salvageable or whether the real answer is a re-architecture.
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Ready to ship?
If you're a founder or operator building something serious, and you're tired of hourly billing, slow timelines, and partners who don't understand your business. Let's talk.
Prefer email? Write to us directly at info@critonyx.com