Questions technical buyers actually ask

The engineer who reviews your account is the engineer who does the work. Duvaryne is deliberately small and senior; there is no bench of juniors behind a senior name on the pitch. If that changes on a given engagement, you will be told who is working on what before you sign anything.

Yes. Duvaryne LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, and is recognised by DPIIT, the Government of India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade. We work across India and remotely with teams in the US and EU.

Every client engagement is under NDA. We describe the architecture and the outcomes exactly as delivered, and we never name the client, their industry, their size or their region. That protection applies to you too, which is the point — it is a standing commitment, not a limitation.

We do not build websites, mobile apps or custom application software. We do not do end-user IT, helpdesk or procurement. We are not the cheapest hourly rate available, and we will not pretend a small predictable workload needs a platform team. Those are all things we will tell you on a first call.

Most unoptimised accounts carry 30-50% waste. What is recoverable depends on your workload shape: containerised and batch workloads often yield 50% or more, while a single tightly-tuned RDS-backed application may only yield 10-15%. We tell you which you are after reading your Cost and Usage Report, before you commit to anything.

It should not, and we design so it cannot. Critical microservices stay on stable On-Demand capacity while only fault-tolerant workloads move to Spot, enforced with taints, tolerations and node affinity rules rather than good intentions. On one estate we shifted 70% of workloads to Spot and the application stayed stable through AWS reclaiming 20% of capacity.

Your Cost and Usage Report, then your architecture. The CUR tells us where the money goes; the architecture tells us which of it is structural and which is waste. Typical early findings are oversized instance families, orphaned snapshots and volumes, NAT Gateway traffic that should never leave the VPC, and storage never lifecycled out of Standard.

No. We scope the work in writing and quote a fixed price before starting. Percentage-of-savings models create an incentive to find savings that look good on a dashboard rather than ones that hold up over twelve months.

The free review is 30 minutes. A focused optimisation on a single account is typically two to four weeks including implementation and verification. A multi-account estate with Kubernetes, Savings Plans restructuring and storage lifecycle work usually runs six to ten weeks.

That is the real question. Point-in-time cleanups regress within two quarters. We implement the controls that keep it down: autoscaling that consolidates idle nodes automatically, TTLs on non-production environments, tagging enforced at provisioning, and a monthly cost review if you want us to keep holding it.

Not as a rate card, because we do not sell hours. Every engagement is quoted as a fixed price against a written scope, so what you compare is the deliverable and the number, not an hourly figure multiplied by an estimate neither of us can hold you to.

If we scoped it wrong, that is our problem and we absorb it. If you change what you want, that is a change: we price it separately and you agree it in writing before we start. Scope does not quietly expand and neither does the invoice.

That is usually the right move. A one-week production readiness review or a two-week cost optimisation sprint gives you a real deliverable and gives both sides evidence about whether the working relationship fits, before anyone commits to a quarter.

An AWS cloud consultant assesses your current infrastructure, designs the target AWS architecture, and then implements and operates it. In practice that means migration planning, landing-zone and account setup, networking and security design, cost optimisation, and ongoing managed support once the workload is live.

Most unoptimised accounts carry 30-50% waste. On Kubernetes workloads we have cut compute spend by 50-60% using Karpenter with Spot consolidation, right-sizing, Savings Plans and storage lifecycle policies. The first step is a review of your Cost and Usage Report, which tells you the real number before any work is committed.

A single application with a managed database typically takes two to six weeks. A multi-application estate with compliance requirements usually runs three to six months. The variable is rarely AWS itself; it is application coupling, data volume and cutover windows.

Yes. We work with early-stage startups that need a production-ready AWS foundation without hiring a platform team, and with established companies that need migration, cost control or compliance work delivered alongside their existing engineers.

Yes. Our engineering is led by a Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) who also holds the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification and a DevOps credential from IIT Madras, with more than 13 years of hands-on infrastructure experience. Duvaryne LLP is a DPIIT-recognised company based in Bengaluru.

We work primarily in the Mumbai (ap-south-1) and Hyderabad (ap-south-2) regions for Indian data-residency requirements, and across US and EU regions for global workloads. Typical workloads are containerised applications on EKS, managed databases such as Aurora and RDS, serverless event-driven services, and multi-region disaster recovery setups.

Book a free 30-minute AWS review. We look at your architecture and your current bill, tell you where the biggest wins are, and give you a written scope and fixed price before any engagement begins.

DevOps consulting is the work of making software reach production quickly, repeatedly and safely. It covers version-controlled infrastructure, automated build and deploy pipelines, container orchestration, monitoring and alerting, and the release process your team follows day to day.

For a single repository going to a container platform, ten working days is a realistic target: source control hooks, automated tests, image build and scan, artifact signing, and a gated deploy to staging and production. Larger estates with multiple services and compliance gates take four to eight weeks.

If you run a handful of services with predictable traffic, managed containers or serverless are usually cheaper and simpler. Kubernetes earns its complexity when you have many services, variable load worth autoscaling against, or a platform team that needs one consistent deployment model. We will tell you honestly which side of that line you are on.

Documented outcomes from our engagements include an 80% reduction in release overhead, node provisioning time cut from roughly four minutes to about 45 seconds using Karpenter, a 90% reduction in after-hours alerts through better observability, and a recovery time objective under 15 minutes for multi-region failover.

Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline for delivery, Docker and Amazon EKS for containers, ArgoCD for GitOps, Cosign and Kyverno for supply-chain security, and Prometheus, Grafana and CloudWatch for observability.

Yes. Most engagements are embedded: we build the pipeline and infrastructure with your engineers, document it, and hand it over with the runbooks. We can also stay on a monthly retainer as a fractional DevOps function if you are not ready to hire a platform engineer.

Yes. Duvaryne LLP is a DPIIT-recognised consultancy based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, working with clients across India and remotely with international teams.

IT consulting is an assessment of where your technology is today and a plan for where it needs to be. A typical engagement covers infrastructure and application review, a cloud adoption or modernisation roadmap, security and compliance gap analysis, cost review, and a prioritised delivery plan with owners and timelines.

Consulting produces decisions and a plan; managed services keep the result running. We do both, and it is usually sensible to start with a short assessment so that any ongoing support contract is scoped against real findings rather than assumptions.

Short fixed-scope assessments are the most predictable way to buy. A one-week production readiness review or a two-week cost optimisation sprint is quoted as a single fixed fee agreed before work starts. Longer programmes are quoted per phase, and fractional retainers are priced on a fixed number of hours per month.

We handle the technical control side: access management, encryption, logging and audit trails, backup and disaster recovery, vulnerability scanning, and the evidence your auditor will ask for. We work alongside your compliance advisor rather than replacing them.

In most cases, yes. Containerising the existing application, moving the database to a managed service, and putting a proper delivery pipeline around it usually removes the majority of the operational pain at a fraction of the cost of a rewrite. A rewrite should be a deliberate decision, not a default.

Senior engineers, not a hand-off to juniors. Our engineering is led by a Certified Kubernetes Administrator who also holds the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate certification and a DevOps credential from IIT Madras, with more than 13 years of hands-on infrastructure experience.

Duvaryne LLP is a DPIIT-recognised consultancy based in Bengaluru, Karnataka. We work with startups and mid-market companies across India, and remotely with international engineering teams.

If your bill is the problem, start with cost optimisation. If shipping is the problem, start with DevOps. If you are moving to AWS or restructuring accounts, start with AWS Cloud. If you are not sure, book the free review and we will tell you which one applies — including when the answer is none of them.

Both. Project work is scoped in writing and priced fixed before anything starts. Retainers are used where there is no in-house platform engineer to hand over to, and are priced on a fixed number of hours per month. Most clients start with a project and move to a retainer only if they want us to keep holding it.