# The AWS Assessment

Fixed-fee, evidence-cited assessment of your AWS account. **$1,500 flat fee · delivered in 5 business days · refund-guaranteed.**

Know exactly what's running in your AWS account, what it costs, what's at risk — and what to do about it. Every claim cited to evidence from your own account data.

## What you get

One branded PDF report containing:

- **Architecture & Dependency Map** — what talks to what (DNS → edge → compute → data), reconstructed from the live account, with "if this dies, what breaks" chains. Ends consultant lock-in: any competent engineer could take over your account from this document.
- **Cost findings with evidence** — every savings claim traces to your Cost Explorer data or a published AWS price, resource IDs included. Typical engagements surface 15–25% of monthly spend.
- **Security & IAM hygiene** — stale access keys, users without MFA, over-broad permissions, dangling DNS records. The things cyber-insurance and SOC 2 questionnaires ask about, answered from the actual account.
- **A scoped, priced project list** — findings clustered into fixed-price implementation projects with effort, savings, and payback period. Accept any, all, or none; DIY-able items are labeled as such.

## How it works

1. **Grant read-only access (10 minutes).** You create a read-only IAM policy from the setup guide — metadata and billing data only, revocable anytime.
2. **The deep sweep (days 1–4).** AI-assisted tooling reads everything — every bucket, key, DNS record, function, and cost line — with twenty years of AWS judgment applied to what it finds. A manual review of this depth runs 20–40 consultant-hours and still misses things.
3. **Report & walkthrough (day 5).** PDF plus a plain-English call for whoever signs the AWS bill.

**Guarantee:** if the assessment doesn't surface findings you consider worth acting on, you don't pay.

## After the assessment

- **AWS Oversight Retainer — $299/mo.** The assessment re-runs monthly and diffs against the last one: fixed / still open / regressed / new, plus a plain-English bill explanation. First assessment fee credited to month one.
- **Compliance Evidence Pack — +$150/mo.** Quarterly evidence snapshot (access, encryption, logging, backups) mapped to SOC 2 / HIPAA / PCI / cyber-insurance frameworks.

## Next step

- Ready now: [pay & start the assessment](https://buy.stripe.com/fZu3cvaFbbnM0aEccEebu3a) ($1,500 via Stripe)
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