Infrastructure Audit
Know where your cloud stands and what to fix first. Infrastructure audit for B2B SaaS teams: cloud security posture, cost, CI/CD and disaster recovery reviewed in 2–4 weeks, each finding ranked by risk.
No prep required. Plan within 48 hours.
Who it’s for
Ideal for
- Companies that have grown fast and need to assess technical debt
- Organizations preparing for due diligence or acquisition
- Teams inheriting infrastructure from previous engineers
- Teams coming out of an incident who want to stop a repeat
- Engineering leaders new in the role who need a baseline
Not a fit for
- Very small deployments (under 5 services) that don't warrant a full audit
- Organizations looking for ongoing managed services
- Companies wanting implementation without assessment
Expected outcomes
Measured in past engagements
- 100%
Visibility into infrastructure state and risks
- Top 10
Prioritized issues with remediation plans
- 15–30%
Typical cost savings identified
Past results, not a guarantee: outcomes depend on baseline maturity, scope and adoption. See case studies
Scope
Included
- Cloud architecture and resource review (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Security posture assessment (IAM, network, secrets)
- Cost analysis and optimization opportunities
- CI/CD pipeline and deployment process review
- Observability and incident response capability
- Disaster recovery and backup validation
- Compliance alignment check (SOC 2, HIPAA, etc.)
- Technical debt inventory and prioritization
Out of scope
- Penetration testing (can be added separately)
- Source code security review
- Implementation of recommendations
- Ongoing monitoring or management
Need something else? We can adjust the scope.
Deliverables
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Executive Summary
High-level findings for leadership and stakeholders
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Technical Assessment Report
Detailed findings with evidence and remediation steps
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Architecture Diagrams
Current-state infrastructure documentation
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Risk Register
Prioritized issues by severity and business impact
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Cost Analysis
Identified savings with implementation guidance
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Remediation Roadmap
Sequenced plan for addressing findings
Timeline
2–4 weeks
- Week 1
Discovery
- Access provisioning and tool setup
- Stakeholder interviews
- Automated scanning and data collection
- Initial architecture review
- Week 2
Analysis
- Deep-dive into identified areas
- Security configuration review
- Cost analysis and optimization modeling
- Compliance gap assessment
- Week 3
Synthesis
- Finding prioritization and validation
- Remediation planning
- Report development
- Architecture documentation
- Week 4
Delivery
- Executive presentation
- Technical readout with engineering
- Q&A and clarification
- Handoff and next steps
What we need from you
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Cloud account access
Read-only access to AWS/GCP/Azure accounts
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CI/CD access
Read access to pipeline configurations
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Documentation
Existing architecture docs, runbooks, incident reports
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Stakeholder time
2–3 hours in total for interviews and reviews
How we work together
- Model
- Remote (no on-site required)
- Cadence
- Async work with scheduled checkpoints
- Communication
- Weekly status updates; final presentation
- Security and access
- Read-only, least-privilege access through your own SSO/IAM, with audit logs, for named individuals only, revoked when the audit ends. We work under NDA and share our security documentation on request: security@illicus.com.
Infrastructure Audit pricing
Fixed price, set by environment size and complexity. Most audits cost $15,000–$35,000.
What our infrastructure audits typically find
Security posture
- Overly permissive IAM roles allowing cross-account access
- Secrets stored in environment variables instead of a secret manager
- Missing encryption at rest for sensitive data stores
- Public S3 buckets holding sensitive configuration files
Cloud cost
- Oversized RDS instances
- Unused Elastic IPs and NAT Gateways
- Missing reserved instance coverage
- Orphaned EBS volumes from terminated instances
Operations and recovery
- No automated disaster recovery testing
- Alerting gaps on critical services
- Missing runbooks for common incidents
- Single points of failure in the data layer
We cut our cloud spend by 28% in the first engagement and eliminated two hours of daily manual deployment work. The infrastructure audit paid for itself within weeks.
— David Park, VP Engineering, Series A HealthTech
Fixing what we find is a separate engagement: SOC 2 compliance readiness for compliance gaps, a fractional CISO to own security, CI/CD setup and hardening for pipeline findings, or cloud migration services when the architecture has to move.
Frequently asked questions
What access do you need?
Read-only access to your cloud accounts, CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring tools. We use your existing IAM and never require write access for the audit phase.
How do you handle sensitive data?
We don't access, copy, or store your application data. We review configurations, logs (without PII), and architecture—not your customers' information.
What if we're using multiple cloud providers?
No problem—we support AWS, GCP, and Azure. Multi-cloud environments are covered in our Comprehensive tier.
Can you implement the recommendations?
Yes, as a separate engagement with its own fixed scope. The audit's remediation roadmap becomes its starting plan.
How is this different from automated scanning tools?
Scanners produce a list of issues. We confirm which ones matter in your environment, rank them by risk and business impact, and give you a fix order in the remediation roadmap.
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No prep required. Plan within 48 hours.
- NDA available on request
- Response within 24 business hours
- Production access only through your SSO, time-limited and logged