An independent AWS review for Geelong businesses — big-firm rigour, no big-city margin
Independent AWS Review in Geelong
Vendor-neutral · report you own
The old way
Big-city margins baked into your cloud advice
The Cipher way
A flat-fee independent review — no agenda, no upsell
Four pillars, reviewed against AWS Well-Architected
A structured, vendor-neutral assessment of your AWS environment — not a sales pitch for more services.
Cost & FinOps
Find waste, rightsizing opportunities and commitment/savings-plan coverage, and set a defensible target spend — without anyone pushing you to buy more.
Security & compliance
IAM, public exposure, encryption, logging and guardrails reviewed against the Well-Architected Framework and Australian privacy expectations.
Reliability & resilience
Backups, single points of failure, multi-AZ posture and recovery objectives, so an outage is a plan rather than a surprise.
Performance & scalability
Architecture and data-path review so the platform scales with load and AI workloads without runaway cost.
How it works
A fixed-scope review, on your terms
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Read-only access
You grant a scoped, revocable read-only role on your own AWS account. We never need write access to review.
02
Structured review
We assess cost, security, reliability and performance against the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
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Prioritised report
You get findings ranked by impact and effort — quick wins, cost savings and risks — with a clear roadmap.
04
You decide
Implement with your own team, or engage us. The report is yours either way. No lock-in.
The offer
One fixed price. No upsell built in.
Independent AWS Review
From AUD $9,125
Fixed price, agreed up front based on the size of your environment. Report typically delivered within two weeks of read-only access.
Real systems, in production
A sample of what dedicated Cipher teams have shipped on production cloud infrastructure.
AI agents · Financial services
Secure internal agent platform
SSO · RBAC · Full audit logging
Internal AI agents for a regulated firm, wired into core systems with access control and governance built in from day one — not bolted on after launch.
Workflow automation · Media
AI ad-video production pipeline
$0.40/hr GPU · 3 inputs to finished video
Automated synthetic UGC for an advertising agency. Presenter, script and voice in; social-ready video out — no studio, actors, or manual editing.
Questions Geelong teams ask about an independent AWS review
Ready when you are
Get an independent read on your AWS
A vendor-neutral review of cost, security, reliability and performance — with a prioritised report and roadmap you keep.
Vendor-neutral by design
We don't resell AWS or profit from your spend
Client-owned account & report
Read-only access you control; the findings are yours
Australian contracts & invoicing
Legal comfort for your CFO and board