A senior cloud architect in your corner — a few days a month, zero vendor incentives
Cloud decisions don't arrive once a year — they arrive every month, usually attached to someone else's invoice. A fractional cloud advisor gives you continuous, vendor-neutral oversight of cost, security and architecture on AWS, Azure or GCP, without hiring a full-time architect.
The old way
Cloud advice from the partner who earns margin on your bill
The Cipher way
A retained advisor whose only incentive is your outcome
Continuous oversight, not an annual audit
Cost, security and architecture watched as they change — with independent advice before money is committed.
Continuous cost control
Monthly review of spend, commitments and rightsizing — so cloud costs are managed continuously instead of discovered in a year-end shock.
Security & compliance posture
Ongoing watch on IAM, exposure, encryption and logging as your platform changes — mapped to well-architected practice and Australian privacy expectations.
Architecture decisions as they arise
New workload? AI pipeline? Migration proposal from a vendor? You get an independent, senior read before money is committed.
Team capability uplift
We advise alongside your engineers, not instead of them — reviews, standards and mentoring that leave your team stronger every quarter.
How it works
A retainer that earns its keep
01
Baseline review
The engagement starts with an independent architecture review of your cloud environment — cost, security, reliability, scalability.
02
Agree cadence
Typically one to three days a month: a standing architecture session, a cost and security check, and ad-hoc decision support.
03
Advise & review
We review changes, proposals and incidents as they happen, and keep a running register of risks and savings ranked by impact.
04
Report in plain language
A short monthly summary for leadership: what changed, what it costs, what needs a decision. No 80-page decks.
Questions teams ask about fractional cloud advisory
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Keep your cloud honest, every month
Start with an independent baseline review, then keep a senior, vendor-neutral architect on retainer — scaled to what your business actually needs.
Vendor-neutral by design
No reseller margin, no referral fees, ever
Flexible retainer
Scale up for migrations, down for steady state — no lock-in
Australian contracts & invoicing
Legal comfort for your CFO and board