AWS Architecture & Cost Control
AWS Architecture & Cost Control for Small Business
Most small businesses don't choose AWS so much as inherit it — a developer set something up years ago, nobody's rearchitected it since, and the bill just quietly climbs every month. Nobody's watching Cost Explorer. Nobody's rotating old access keys. Nobody notices when a storage bucket gets left open to the public. JLD‑LTS takes ownership of that infrastructure — not to rebuild it from scratch, but to make sure it's sized correctly, secured properly, and actually explainable.
What's included
What's included
Ongoing management, not a one-time audit — the same handful of things kept in check every month.
- Right-sized EC2 and S3 — compute and storage matched to what you actually use, not whatever was easiest to click when it was first set up.
- VPC and security group cleanup — network rules that made sense at launch and now sit open, unused, or genuinely risky.
- Cost visibility — a monthly bill you can explain to your accountant, with actual waste identified and cut, not a black box you just pay.
- Backup and recovery — snapshots and backups that are tested to restore, not assumed to work.
Scope
Not a full DevOps team
If your business already has an engineering team building and deploying software of its own, that's a different conversation. This is for small businesses running a handful of AWS resources who need someone making sure it doesn't quietly turn into a $2,000/month surprise — or a security incident.
Why it matters
Why this matters for a small business specifically
You don't have a cloud engineer on staff. The account works fine right up until it doesn't — an oversized instance nobody downsized, a public bucket nobody locked down, a backup nobody tested. That's the actual job: catching the boring stuff before it becomes an expensive one.
FAQ
Common questions
Do you support businesses that have never touched the AWS console themselves?
Yes. Most clients never log in at all — we manage it and tell you what changed in plain language.
We have a real production app running in AWS — is this still a fit?
This is aimed at standard small-business infrastructure — a handful of EC2 instances, S3, maybe RDS. If you already have a dedicated engineering team, you probably don't need this. If you don't and things grew organically, that's exactly the gap this closes.
What happens if my IT consultant becomes unavailable?
Every change gets documented in a shared file you own, not kept in one person's head. If JLD‑LTS is ever unreachable, your business isn't stranded.
How much does this cost?
Quoted as a fixed scope before any work starts. The first call to talk through what you're currently running is free.
Ready to talk through your setup?
Ten minutes on the phone is usually enough to tell you whether this is a fit.