Private Equity

AWS due diligence and portfolio standardization — engineered, not estimated.

Private equity firms inherit a different AWS problem from every acquisition: undocumented architectures, opaque spend, accumulating risk, and no comparable view across the portfolio. We give the firm and the portfolio operations team a clear read on AWS posture pre- and post-deal — and the standardization playbook to act on it.

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Why this is different on AWS

The PE-on-AWS reality

  • Pre-acquisition due diligence on AWS posture is rarely deep — and the gaps show up post-close
  • Every portfolio company has its own tagging, account, and cost discipline — comparability is hard
  • Margin improvement is real — most portfolio AWS bills have 15–30% optimization headroom on day one
  • Standardization across the portfolio unlocks volume discounts, shared tooling, and faster post-close integration
  • EPS, the operations partner, and the deal team all need the same view of AWS reality — usually they don't have it
  • Exit-readiness on cloud posture is a value-creation lever — buyers price down what they can't verify

What we deliver to PE

Two distinct engagements: deal-team due diligence (pre-close) and operations-partner standardization (post-close). Both rooted in the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

Pre-close: scoped 5–7 day reviews, dollar-quantified findings. Post-close: portfolio-wide standardization playbook with measurable margin impact in the first quarter.

How we engage

Two engagement shapes for PE

Pre-close

Cloud due diligence

Quick-hit AWS assessment during the diligence window. Scoped to deliver in 5–7 days, with a dollar-quantified findings memo: cost optimization headroom, compliance gaps, technical debt, key-person risks, and architectural anti-patterns that will affect the value-creation plan.

Post-close

Portfolio standardization

Standardize AWS posture across the portfolio: tagging, account topology via AWS Organizations, baseline security via Control Tower, FinOps cadence, and Well-Architected reviews on a recurring rhythm. Designed to compound — every new acquisition lands inside the playbook on day one.

Pre-exit

Exit-readiness

Well-Architected posture review and remediation roadmap ahead of sale. We surface and close the cloud findings buyers' technical diligence will surface — so they don't become price-down conversations.

Cross-portfolio

Operations partner support

Ongoing partnership with the firm's operations team — a senior AWS architect on standby for the next deal, the next operational fire, the next exit prep.

AWS services we lean on

The PE portfolio stack we build with

Solutions that map to PE work

How our solutions show up across the deal lifecycle

Assessments

5–7 day cloud due diligence, scoped for the deal-team window. Dollar-quantified findings, no fluff.

Well-Architected Reviews

Standardized review across the portfolio. Comparable scoring, comparable backlogs, comparable progress.

AWS Partnership Retainer

Dedicated hours at the firm level, applied across the portfolio as deals close, operations needs arise, and exits approach.

One playbook. The whole portfolio.

PE firms that build a standard AWS posture across the portfolio create durable value — every deal, every exit, every operating partner conversation.

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