Get More Value From AWS — With Independent Guidance
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.
What RLM Delivers on Amazon Web Services
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.
How We Approach Amazon Web Services
A structured path through the Amazon Web Services decision — current-state discovery, shortlist and benchmark, commercial negotiation, then support until it is actually working.
AWS Environment Assessment
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.
Architecture & Migration Advisory
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.
Cost Optimization & FinOps
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.
Contract & Marketplace Advisory
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.
Amazon Web Services Evaluation Criteria
Before committing to any Amazon Web Services platform, these are the points worth forcing a straight answer on.
Multi-Account Architecture
Well-structured AWS environments use separate accounts for production, development, security, and logging. Evaluate your account structure against AWS Organizations best practices.
Cost Optimization Maturity
Evaluate your current utilization of Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, and Spot Instances — the primary levers for reducing EC2, RDS, and compute costs.
Security & Compliance Posture
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.
Managed vs. Self-Managed Services
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.
Data Transfer & Egress Costs
AWS charges for data transfer out of the cloud and between regions/AZs. Evaluate your data architecture and application design for egress cost exposure.
Support Plan & Escalation
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."
The benchmark comes first. Without a baseline, “savings” is just a number a vendor gave you.
Where This Matters Most
Sector-specific considerations we see repeatedly in cloud and managed services engagements.
A Sample of the Cloud & Managed Services Providers We Evaluate
RLM is vendor neutral. These are among 600+ providers in our evaluation set — inclusion here is not an endorsement, and we are paid by the provider you choose, not by any provider in particular. How that works →
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