AWS is the world's largest cloud platform — and also one of the most complex to navigate, optimize, and govern. RLM provides independent AWS advisory that helps enterprises architect workloads correctly, control costs, maintain compliance, and negotiate contracts without a stake in the outcome.
RLM is not an AWS reseller or managed service partner — we advise enterprises on AWS strategy, architecture, cost optimization, and provider selection from the buyer's perspective, ensuring recommendations reflect your interests rather than channel incentives.
A structured advisory process — from discovery and market evaluation to negotiation and post-deployment optimization — tailored to your specific environment and objectives.
We audit your existing AWS footprint — account structure, service usage, spend patterns, security posture, and cost optimization gaps — producing a prioritized list of improvements with quantified impact.
We advise on workload placement, architecture patterns (serverless, containers, managed services), migration sequencing from on-premises, and the governance model for multi-account AWS Organizations.
We identify rightsizing opportunities, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan strategies, idle resource cleanup, and the FinOps operating model that keeps AWS spend aligned to actual business value.
AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP) negotiations, Private Pricing Agreements, and AWS Marketplace purchases all benefit from independent benchmarking. We advise on contract structure and pricing.
These are the dimensions that consistently separate successful deployments from costly ones — and the questions RLM will help you answer before any commitment.
Well-structured AWS environments use separate accounts for production, development, security, and logging. Evaluate your account structure against AWS Organizations best practices.
Evaluate your current utilization of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances — the primary levers for reducing EC2, RDS, and compute costs.
AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, Config, and IAM Access Analyzer provide the foundation for a strong AWS security posture. Evaluate coverage and configuration against your compliance requirements.
AWS managed services (RDS, EKS, Lambda) reduce operational overhead. Evaluate the cost and operational trade-offs of self-managed vs. managed services for your workloads.
AWS charges for data transfer out of the cloud and between regions/AZs. Evaluate your data architecture and application design for egress cost exposure.
AWS support tiers range from Basic to Enterprise On-Ramp to full Enterprise. Evaluate the support tier appropriate for your workload criticality and internal AWS expertise.
"RLM helped us rationalize our multi-cloud spend and identify over $1.2M in annual savings. Their approach was methodical and unbiased — exactly what we needed."
"Our migration was stalled for months. RLM came in, assessed the gaps, and helped us select a managed services partner that got us across the finish line in 60 days."
Start with a no-cost conversation with an RLM cloud advisor — vendor neutral, no agenda, just clarity on the right path forward.
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