AWS Cloud Consulting

Cut your AWS bill 20–40%. Pay only from what you save.

RAI Solutions is an independent AWS consultancy for mid-market companies. We find the waste hiding in your cloud bill, migrate and modernize your infrastructure, and build environments that pass compliance audits the first time. No headcount added, no lock-in.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Professional

12+

Years in cloud engineering

2,300+

Servers managed at enterprise scale

1,300+

Servers migrated in a single engagement

11

AWS accounts operated concurrently

Services

Deep AWS work, without adding headcount

Four engagements, one operator standard: enterprise-grade AWS practice applied to companies that don't have (and don't need) a full platform team.

No savings, no fee

AWS Cost Optimization (FinOps)

A deep audit of your AWS spend: rightsizing, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage, orphaned resources, data transfer paths, and architecture-level waste. Typical outcome: 20–40% off monthly spend.

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Cloud Migration & Architecture

End-to-end datacenter-to-AWS migration: landing zone design, network topology, security group strategy, and multi-account structure. Legacy VMware estates translated into cloud-native designs. Largest single engagement: 1,300+ servers.

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Infrastructure Automation & IaC

Terraform modules, Lambda-based automation, and Python tooling that eliminate manual ops. We integrate AI coding agents into your team's IaC workflow, with delivery cycles typically 40–60% faster.

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Security & Compliance Architecture

AWS environments designed to pass HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, and SOC 2 audits on the first attempt. We partner with your compliance team from architecture through evidence collection.

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Flagship Engagement

The AWS Cost Optimization Audit

Most companies overspend on AWS by 25–40%. The waste hides in oversized instances, missing reserved capacity, orphaned volumes, idle load balancers, and environments nobody ever shuts down. Your team is busy shipping product. That's where we come in.

Engagement terms

ScopeFull audit: compute, storage, networking, database, data transfer
DeliverablePrioritized savings report with risk ratings and implementation steps
Timeline2–4 weeks depending on account complexity
Fee25% of verified Year 1 savings. If we find nothing, you pay nothing.
MinimumAWS monthly spend of $50,000+
ImplementationOptional: we execute for a flat fee, or hand off runbooks to your team

What we audit

  • EC2 rightsizing — oversized instances, low utilization, generation upgrades (m5 → m7g)
  • Reserved Instances & Savings Plans — coverage gaps, expiring reservations, convertible RI strategy
  • Storage — orphaned EBS volumes, unattached snapshots, S3 lifecycle and storage classes
  • Networking — idle Elastic IPs, NAT gateway placement, data transfer paths, CloudFront tuning
  • Databases — RDS rightsizing, Aurora vs. RDS fit, DynamoDB capacity mode
  • Non-production — scheduling, auto-shutdown, dev/test instance class reduction
  • Licensing — Windows-to-Linux conversion, BYOL evaluation

What the math looks like

Typical savings observed: 25–35% of annual spend

Monthly AWS spend Typical savings Annual savings Our fee (25%) Your net benefit
$50,00025%$150,000$37,500$112,500
$150,00030%$540,000$135,000$405,000
$500,00030%$1,800,000$450,000$1,350,000
$1,000,00035%$4,200,000$1,050,000$3,150,000

01 — Discovery call

30 minutes on your AWS setup, account structure, and pain points. No commitment, no prep needed.

02 — Read-only access

You grant read-only IAM access or export a Cost & Usage Report. We never touch your environment during the audit.

03 — Analysis & report

In 2–4 weeks you get a prioritized report: each finding with projected savings, risk level, and exact steps.

04 — Review & agreement

We walk through the findings together. You choose what to implement; we finalize the savings target and fee.

05 — Implementation

We execute the changes, or your team does with our runbooks. Either way, nothing ships without your sign-off.

06 — Verified payment

Savings are verified against your actual AWS bill over 90 days. You pay 25% of verified Year 1 savings. That's it.

Who You Work With

Enterprise-scale AWS experience, applied directly to your environment

RAI Solutions is led by Ruben Rivero, an AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional with 12+ years in cloud and infrastructure engineering.

He has owned the AWS platform of a $3.5B publicly traded enterprise end-to-end: 11 accounts, 2,300+ servers, and infrastructure serving 35,000 employees, while leading a team of 6 cloud engineers through migrations, platform buildouts, and daily operations. Earlier, he led the technical execution of a 1,300-server datacenter-to-AWS migration for a national retail brand, and built PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and HIPAA compliant infrastructure in the payments industry, passing every audit on the first attempt.

When you hire RAI Solutions, that operator experience is what shows up. No account managers, no junior staff learning on your dime.

Credentials

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
  • 12+ years cloud & systems engineering
  • HIPAA, SOX, PCI-DSS, SOC 2 audit track record
  • Terraform, CloudFormation, Python/Boto3

How we work

  • Remote-first, clients worldwide
  • English & Spanish, native fluency in both
  • Read-only access until you approve changes
  • US-based: Florida, Eastern Time

FAQ

Common questions

How does the no-savings-no-fee model work?
The audit itself costs nothing. Our fee is 25% of verified Year 1 savings, and savings are verified against your actual AWS bill over a 90-day window after changes go live. If we find nothing worth acting on, you pay nothing.
What access do you need to audit our environment?
Read-only access. Either a read-only IAM role scoped to billing and resource metadata, or an export of your Cost & Usage Report. We never require write access during an audit and we never modify your environment.
Will you change anything in production?
Not during the audit. The audit is analysis only. Implementation is a separate optional phase: we can execute the changes for a flat project fee, or hand your team prioritized runbooks and let them execute.
Our AWS bill is under $50k/month. Can we still work together?
The contingency audit is designed for $50k+ monthly spend, where the savings justify the model for both sides. Below that, we offer fixed-fee mini-audits and advisory engagements. Reach out and we'll scope it honestly.
Do you work with companies outside the US?
Yes. We're US-based and remote-first, and we work with clients worldwide in English or Spanish. All we need is access to your AWS billing data and a weekly call.
How long does an audit take?
Two to four weeks depending on the number of accounts and the complexity of the environment. You get a prioritized savings report with risk ratings and implementation steps for every finding.
Do you replace our DevOps or platform team?
No. We augment them. Your engineers are busy shipping product; we do the deep billing and architecture analysis they never get time for, then hand over findings they can execute with confidence.
What about migration, automation, or compliance projects?
Cloud migration, infrastructure automation, and compliance architecture engagements are scoped as fixed-fee projects after a discovery call. Tell us what you're trying to do and we'll map the path.

Get Started

Book a free 30-minute discovery call

Tell us about your AWS environment and what's hurting: the bill, a migration, compliance, or ops toil. We'll tell you honestly whether we can help and what it would look like.

Florida, USA — serving clients worldwide