Cut cloud spend 38% with a fractional architect
A fractional solution architect re-platformed a sprawling cloud estate without a full-time hire.
−38%
Cloud spend
2 days/wk
Commitment
< 1 quarter
Payback
01Engagement
Team
1 fractional architect
Duration
6 months
Model
Fractional & Specialist
Stack
AWSTerraformKubernetesDatadog
The challenge
A retail group's cloud bill was climbing faster than revenue, and no one in-house had the depth to re-architect it. A full-time principal architect was neither affordable nor justified for a one-off.
Our approach
We provided a fractional solution architect two days a week. They audited the estate, designed a migration plan, and paired with the in-house team to execute it — transferring knowledge as they went.
The outcome
Cloud spend dropped 38% within two quarters and the in-house team retained the playbook to keep optimising.
Two days a week from one genuinely senior architect saved us more than a full-time hire ever could have. The knowledge transfer was the part we didn't expect.
CTO
Retail group