// DATABASE COST & RELIABILITY AUDIT

Your production databases are carrying cost and outage risk you cannot see yet.

We review your database spend, configuration, performance signals, backups, replication, and operational practices in 5 business days. You get a clear remediation plan without giving us production access.

Audit turnaround

Production access required

30d

Prioritized remediation roadmap

// WHERE DATABASE RISK HIDES

The bill is only one failure signal.

Database waste and reliability risk usually show up together: oversized instances, missing indexes, stale statistics, backup assumptions, and failover plans nobody has tested recently.

// 01 COST DRIFT

Over-provisioned database infrastructure

RDS, Aurora, Oracle, DB2, EC2-hosted databases, storage, snapshots, and replicas keep growing after the original workload assumptions change.

// 02 PERFORMANCE DEBT

Slow queries and schema friction

Missing indexes, table bloat, stale stats, connection pressure, and noisy queries create user-facing latency long before anyone calls it an incident.

// 03 RECOVERY GAPS

Backups that have not proven restore

Snapshots are not a recovery strategy. We look for restore gaps, replication assumptions, failover risks, and missing operational runbooks.

// THE PROCESS

How the audit works.

The audit is designed for lean engineering teams. We use read-only access or exported reports and focus on decisions you can act on within 30 days.

// STEP 01

Share read-only evidence

Billing exports, CloudWatch metrics, Performance Insights, database metadata, backup configuration, and architecture notes are enough to start.

// STEP 02

Senior DBA review

We review cost, utilization, query pressure, storage growth, backups, replication, failover posture, and operational ownership.

// STEP 03

Prioritized findings call

You receive a written report and a ranked 30-day action plan: what to fix now, what to monitor, and what can wait.

// DELIVERABLES

What you get in the audit report.

Database cost breakdownCompute, storage, backups, replicas, licensing pressure, and cloud service spend

Right-sizing recommendationsInstance classes, storage tiers, replica posture, and utilization mismatches

Performance risk reviewSlow-query patterns, index gaps, bloat indicators, and connection pressure

Backup and restore readinessRetention, restore assumptions, recovery point objectives, and recovery runbooks

HA and failover risk reviewReplica configuration, failover assumptions, region posture, and incident response gaps

30-day remediation roadmapA ranked action plan and optional managed DBA retainer recommendation

// BEST FIT

Built for teams where the database matters.

This is most useful when database downtime, slow performance, or runaway cloud spend would affect revenue, customers, compliance, or executive attention.

// SPEND

$10k+ monthly database or cloud spend

You have enough spend for savings and risk reduction to justify senior engineering attention.

// PLATFORM

Production Oracle, DB2, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RDS, or Aurora

Your environment is important enough that generic cloud advice is not sufficient.

// COVERAGE

Lean internal DBA or infrastructure coverage

Your team owns production outcomes but does not have enough senior DBA capacity to inspect every risk.

// REQUEST AUDIT

Request your database audit.

Takes about 60 seconds. A senior engineer will respond within 1 business day to confirm fit and next steps.

Audit request received.

A senior engineer will reach out within 1 business day to confirm fit, request read-only evidence, and schedule the findings timeline.

// READ-ONLY EVIDENCE ONLY. NO PRODUCTION ACCESS. FINDINGS DELIVERED WHETHER OR NOT YOU RETAIN US.