Cloud & DevOps
Most teams optimise 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 first engineer spun up a server. The next one added a database. Someone added a queue when the system started buckling. Then a Lambda for a quick fix. Then another service. Then a Kubernetes 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 30% 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
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.
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 3am. We build the operational substrate alongside the architecture — runbooks, alerting, observability, escalation paths.
Cloud and DevOps engagements quietly become hostage situations. 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.
Services, data layer, network topology, security posture, cost ceiling.
Strangler patterns, parallel running, dependency mapping, zero-downtime cutovers. We've moved monoliths off dedicated servers, lifted SaaS products to multi-region, and migrated between AWS / GCP / Azure when the business case demanded it.
CI/CD pipelines that actually catch problems. Infrastructure as code that doesn't drift. Observability that tells you what's broken before customers do.
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.
SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 — built into the architecture, not retrofitted before an audit.
The offer
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:
Most teams save more than the Audit cost in their first quarter — usually by killing one or two structural decisions that were quietly compounding.
"They cut our cloud bill in half and we stopped having weekend incidents. We didn't expect both."
What happens next
Free.
One week.
Most engagements have measurable wins in 4–8 weeks. Full re-architectures in 12–20.
Ready to talk
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.