Design cloud infrastructure that grows with your product. We help you architect for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
Cloud architecture is not one-size-fits-all. A startup running its first MVP has different infrastructure needs than a growth-stage company serving millions of users. Cloud architecture consulting from Arthiq designs infrastructure that matches your current scale while providing a clear path for growth.
The most common mistake we see is over-engineering. Teams adopt complex architectures with Kubernetes clusters, service meshes, and multi-region deployments when a simple managed services approach would be faster, cheaper, and easier to operate. Conversely, teams that under-invest in infrastructure face painful scaling crises when their product gains traction.
Our consultants have designed cloud architectures across AWS, GCP, and Azure for products ranging from early MVPs to high-traffic production systems. We bring that range of experience to every engagement, ensuring your architecture is right-sized for today while preparing for tomorrow.
Choosing between AWS, GCP, and Azure is a significant decision that affects your team productivity, service availability, pricing, and long-term flexibility. We evaluate cloud platforms against your specific requirements including service portfolio, pricing model, team familiarity, geographic availability, and compliance certifications.
Once the platform is selected, we design your cloud architecture following well-architected principles. This includes networking design with appropriate VPC structures and security groups, compute strategy balancing containers, serverless, and virtual machines, storage and database selection matched to data patterns, and identity and access management that follows the principle of least privilege.
We document the architecture with clear diagrams, decision records, and operational runbooks. This documentation ensures that your team can understand, maintain, and evolve the architecture independently after our engagement.
Downtime costs money and erodes user trust. We design architectures with high availability built in, not bolted on. This includes redundant compute resources, database replication, load balancing, health checks, and automated failover mechanisms.
Disaster recovery planning goes further, preparing for scenarios where an entire region becomes unavailable. We help you define your recovery time objective and recovery point objective, then design backup and replication strategies that meet those targets at an acceptable cost. Not every application needs multi-region active-active architecture, and we help you make that trade-off explicitly.
We also conduct chaos engineering exercises to validate that your failover mechanisms work correctly. It is not enough to have redundancy on paper; you must test it regularly to ensure it works when you need it. We design test scenarios and help you run them safely in production.
Cloud bills have a way of growing faster than revenue if they are not managed actively. We analyze your current cloud spending and identify cost optimization opportunities including rightsizing compute resources, leveraging reserved instances or savings plans, optimizing storage tiers, eliminating unused resources, and restructuring architectures to take advantage of spot instances or serverless pricing.
Beyond immediate savings, we design cost-aware architectures from the start. This includes choosing pricing-efficient services, designing for elasticity so you pay only for what you use, and implementing cost monitoring and alerting so your team is aware of spending trends before they become problems.
For startups, we also help you navigate cloud provider startup programs that provide free credits. AWS Activate, Google for Startups Cloud Program, and Azure for Startups each offer significant credits that can fund your infrastructure costs during the early stages. We help you apply, maximize the value of credits, and plan for the transition to paid usage.
Cloud security is a shared responsibility between you and your cloud provider. While the provider secures the underlying infrastructure, you are responsible for securing your configurations, data, and applications. We help you implement cloud security best practices including encryption at rest and in transit, network segmentation, secret management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance monitoring.
We also implement security automation that catches misconfigurations before they reach production. This includes infrastructure-as-code security scanning, runtime security monitoring, and automated compliance checks that flag deviations from your security baseline.
For regulated industries, we help you design architectures that meet specific compliance requirements such as SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI-DSS. Compliance should be built into the architecture from the start rather than retrofitted later, and we help you identify the specific controls required for your regulatory environment.
Design for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency. Our cloud architecture consulting gives you infrastructure that supports growth without surprises.