Cloud
Make the Cloud Work Harder for Your Business.
The cloud should give your business greater flexibility, capacity, and speed - not more cost, complexity, and uncertainty.
STG helps organizations understand what’s working, identify what could work better, and make practical cloud decisions that improve efficiency, reduce risk, and support what the business needs next.
You bring the business context. We bring experienced cloud, architecture, and technology leadership to help determine the right path forward.
The Problem
Cloud Problems Rarely Start With the Cloud.
- A rising cloud bill may be a utilization problem.
- A migration challenge may actually be an architecture problem.
- Increasing complexity may come from years of individual decisions that made sense at the time.
- And sometimes the cloud is working exactly as designed - but the business has changed around it.
That’s why we don’t start by asking which cloud platform you use.
We start with what the business needs the cloud to accomplish. Then we look across cost, architecture, applications, governance, performance, and operations to determine what could make the biggest difference.
How We Help
What Does Your Business Need From the Cloud?
Reduce Unnecessary Cloud Spend
Understand where your cloud budget is going - and where it may not be creating enough value.
Identify underutilized resources, unnecessary capacity, fragmented spending, and opportunities for greater financial accountability.
Improve Cloud Architecture
Make sure the environment supporting your business can support what comes next.
Evaluate reliability, scalability, performance, security, cost, and complexity to determine where architecture could be strengthened or simplified.
Move or Modernize Applications
Make applications easier to change, scale, integrate, and support.
Determine what should move, what should be modernized, and where migration may create more complexity than value.
Strengthen Governance
Give teams room to move without losing visibility, accountability, or control.
Create practical guardrails around spending, security, architecture, ownership, and cloud operations.
Improve Delivery & Operations
Reduce the friction involved in building, deploying, monitoring, and supporting technology.
Strengthen cloud operations, automation, DevOps, observability, and deployment practices.
Prepare for Growth
Make sure today’s cloud decisions aren’t creating tomorrow’s constraints.
Align architecture, capacity, cost, security, and governance with where the business is going next.
Perspective
Experienced Enough to Look Beyond the Cloud Bill.
Reducing unnecessary cloud spend can create immediate value. But the least expensive environment isn’t necessarily the right environment.
That broader perspective helps us distinguish between a cost problem, an architecture problem, a modernization opportunity, or a larger strategy issue.
STG brings cloud engineering, architecture, software development, delivery, and technology leadership experience together to look at the bigger picture:
- Business Value
- Cost
- Architecture
- Risk
- Execution
- Growth
The goal isn’t simply to spend less. It’s to make sure what you spend helps the business move forward.
Self Assessment
Cloud Optimization Scorecard
How much visibility do you have into the value, cost, and management of your cloud environment?
Rate each statement from 1-5.
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- We understand what drives our cloud costs.
- Cloud spending is reviewed regularly.
- Every major cloud service has a business owner.
- Resource utilization is monitored.
- Idle resources are removed promptly.
- Governance policies are consistently followed.
- Cloud investments support business priorities.
- Leadership receives meaningful cost reporting.
- Cost optimization is an ongoing process.
- Cloud ROI is measured consistently.
Your results
0/ 50
Your score can help identify where greater visibility, governance, efficiency, or business alignment may be needed.
The number is only the starting point. The more important question is what’s driving it.
Capabilities
From Cloud Question to Practical Action.
STG can help across the cloud lifecycle:
01
Cloud Strategy & Roadmapping
Connect cloud decisions to business priorities and determine where investment should - and shouldn’t - go next.
02
Cloud Cost Optimization
Improve visibility, reduce unnecessary spending, and create stronger financial accountability.
03
Cloud Architecture
Evaluate and improve performance, reliability, security, efficiency, and scalability.
04
Cloud Migration & Modernization
Determine what should move or change - and execute without creating unnecessary complexity or disruption.
05
Cloud Governance
Create practical guardrails around cost, security, architecture, ownership, and usage.
06
DevOps & Cloud Operations
Improve how teams build, deploy, automate, monitor, and operate cloud environments.
Not sure which one you need? You don’t have to be. Start with what you’re trying to accomplish.
Executive Toolkit
Cloud Cost Optimization Executive Toolkit
Want to take a closer look before talking with us?
Use the Cloud Cost Optimization Executive Toolkit to evaluate where greater visibility, discipline, and efficiency could create value across your environment.
Cloud Cost Optimization Checklist
Evaluate your cloud environment and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and strengthen governance.
You’ll assess:
- Cost visibility
- Resource utilization
- Governance
- Security
- Business alignment
- Financial accountability
- Operational efficiency
Executive Cloud Discussion Guide
Lead more strategic conversations about cloud investments with your leadership team.
Topics include:
- Cost transparency
- Governance
- Optimization opportunities
- Financial accountability
- Future planning
- Business outcomes
Executive White Paper
“Why Cloud Costs Continue to Rise - And What High-Performing Organizations Do Differently” - the common causes of cloud cost inefficiency, and a practical framework for aligning cloud investments with business value.
Inside you’ll learn:
- Why cloud bills become difficult to explain
- Common sources of hidden cloud costs
- The role of governance and accountability
- How to optimize cloud investments without slowing innovation
- A framework for improving cloud financial visibility
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. We can identify unnecessary spending, underutilized resources, overprovisioning, governance gaps, and other opportunities to improve efficiency. But we look at cost in context. The goal is better value from your cloud investment - not simply a smaller bill.
Yes. We evaluate reliability, scalability, performance, security, cost, and complexity to determine where your architecture could be strengthened or simplified.
Yes. We help determine what should move, what should be modernized, and where migration may create more complexity than value - then execute without unnecessary disruption.
That’s a good place to start. We begin with what the business needs the cloud to accomplish, then look across cost, architecture, applications, governance, performance, and operations to find what could make the biggest difference.
Your Cloud Environment Should Make What Comes Next Easier.
Tell us what you’re trying to accomplish, where cost or complexity is getting in the way, or what cloud decision you’re working through.
You don’t need to arrive knowing whether you need optimization, migration, modernization, architecture, or governance.
You bring the business context. We’ll bring experienced cloud, architecture, and technology perspective to help determine the right path forward.
No predetermined platform. No unnecessary transformation. Just practical guidance about what will help the business work better.
30 minutes. No pitch. No predetermined solution. Just experienced perspective.