Service line
Cloud Operations
Most cloud spend is lost after the migration is finished. We run the day to day discipline, reliability engineering, and cost governance that keeps a cloud platform efficient years after launch, not just on launch day.
Why this is a distinct discipline
Migration gets you to the cloud. Operations is what happens for the next five years.
A workload that runs correctly the week it ships will drift: unused resources accumulate, autoscaling rules stop matching real traffic, and small configuration changes compound into reliability risk. Cloud Operations is the standing discipline of architecture review, observability, and cost accountability that keeps a platform matched to the business it serves, long after the original build team has moved on to other work.
- Continuous cost optimization tied to actual usage patterns
- Reliability engineering with defined error budgets, not vague uptime promises
- Infrastructure as code so environments stay reproducible as they grow
Scope of work
What this service line covers
| Capability | What it includes |
|---|---|
| FinOps and cost governance | Rightsizing, reserved capacity planning, tagging discipline, and monthly spend reviews tied to specific teams and workloads rather than a single combined bill. |
| Site reliability engineering | Service level objectives, error budgets, on call rotation design, and incident postmortems that produce real architectural changes. |
| Platform engineering | Internal developer platforms, golden path templates, and self service provisioning that let application teams ship without filing infrastructure tickets. |
| Observability | Unified logging, metrics, and tracing across distributed systems, with alerting tuned to reduce noise rather than add to it. |
| Capacity and scaling | Autoscaling policy design, load testing, and capacity forecasting ahead of predictable demand events. |
| Multi cloud and hybrid operations | Consistent operational standards across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, or between cloud and on premises environments where workloads remain mixed. |
Engagement models
Three ways to bring us in
Operational health check
A focused review of cost, reliability posture, and architectural drift, delivered as a prioritized findings report within three weeks.
Co-managed operations
Aetherion engineers work alongside your existing platform team, owning specific domains like cost or observability while you retain overall control.
Fully managed platform
We take complete operational ownership under SLA, covered in depth on our Managed Services page, with your team free to focus on product work.