Primus Cloud Solutions

Senior cloud architecture, without a full-time hire.

Primus Cloud Solutions helps small and mid-size companies cut AWS cost and build architecture that holds up as they grow. The work is led personally by Dr. Primus Vekuh, PhD in IT and AWS certified at the Professional level. One starting point for most clients: the fixed-fee audit below.

Book an audit intro call Bring your current cloud bill and your growth plan. Leave with a clear next step either way.
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The AWS Cloud and Cost Audit

Price: $2,500 to $5,000, fixed fee Timeline: two weeks Led by: Dr. Primus Vekuh

A senior architect reviews your AWS accounts the way an owner would want them reviewed: where the money goes, what can be cut, and what breaks first as you grow. The fee is fixed and agreed before work starts. You receive a written report, a savings list, and a 90-day plan.

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The Audit

What the audit reviews: the 10-point checklist

Every audit works through the same ten points, in your accounts, against your real bills and your real growth plan. Nothing generic, nothing copied from a template.

  1. Account inventoryAccounts, regions, services in use, and who owns each one.
  2. Spend analysisThree to six months of billing, the top 10 cost drivers, and the trend line.
  3. ComputeInstance sizing, idle time, scheduling, and spot and reserved coverage.
  4. Storage and databasesTiering, lifecycle rules, and unused volumes and snapshots.
  5. NetworkData transfer costs, load balancer setup, and content delivery usage.
  6. DiscountsSavings plans and reserved capacity measured against actual consumption.
  7. Security basicsRoot and admin access, MFA, public exposure, and encryption.
  8. ResilienceBackups tested, recovery time realistic, and single points of failure named.
  9. Delivery pipelineHow code reaches production, the rollback path, and change history.
  10. Growth fitWill this architecture hold at 2x and 5x current load, and what breaks first.
Deliverables

What you receive at the end of two weeks

Five things, in writing, that you can act on with your own team or with any engineer you choose. The findings are yours.

  • Written findings reportPlain language, ranked by cost impact and risk.
  • Cost reduction listEach item with an estimated monthly saving, so you can see what the audit pays back.
  • Target architecture diagramWith a short written explanation of what changes and why.
  • 90-day action planSequenced, with effort estimates, so your team knows what to do first.
  • One review callWe walk through the report together and answer your questions.
Why Primus Cloud Solutions

Senior work, done by the senior person

There is no hand-off to a junior team. The person who reviews your accounts is the person named on this page.

AWS Professional

Solutions Architect Professional and DevOps Engineer Professional certified, plus Solutions Architect Associate, CKA and Terraform Associate.

Graduate professor

Teaches graduate courses in Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Operating Systems at the University of the Cumberlands.

500+ people trained

Founder of Primus Learning, a training centre in Buea, Cameroon, which has trained over 500 people in technology skills.

PhD research on SMEs

Doctoral dissertation studied how small and mid-size companies adopt cloud computing, and what adoption does to cost, users and performance.

Fit

Who this is for, and who it is not for

One honest page on fit saves wasted calls on both sides. If your company is in the first column, the audit intro call is worth your time.

A good fit

  • Small and mid-size companies and startups on AWS spending $5,000 or more per month on cloud
  • Companies planning a migration to AWS, or in the middle of one
  • AI startups that need deployment architecture before a first enterprise customer
  • Companies whose cloud bill grew faster than their revenue
  • Founders with engineers on the team but no senior architect
  • US businesses that work remotely and meet by video

Not a fit

  • Companies shopping for the lowest hourly rate
  • Staff augmentation firms looking to place a contractor
  • Teams that need on-call cover or hands-on production support
  • Companies with no AWS footprint and no plan to build one
After the Audit

The advisory retainer

Most audit clients keep a senior architect on call afterwards. The retainer gives you monthly architecture cover at 5 or 10 hours per week, billed monthly, with a rate band of $200 to $350 per hour equivalent set in the engagement letter. Cancel with 30 days notice. A fractional CTO variant is also available for early-stage startups that need technical leadership before they can hire it.

  • Architecture reviews for new features, services and migrations, before they are built
  • A monthly cost review with a standing savings backlog
  • DevOps pipeline guidance: CI/CD design, infrastructure as code standards, release safety
  • AI platform architecture: model deployment, inference infrastructure, data pipelines on AWS
  • Vendor and tool selection advice
  • One scheduled working session per week, plus async review between sessions
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About

About Dr. Primus Vekuh

Dr. Primus Vekuh is the founder of Primus Cloud Solutions and the person who does the work on every engagement. He is a Senior Manager and Cloud Solutions Architect at a global consulting firm, a role he has held since February 2022, and before that he held a senior AWS cloud architect role. He has designed and reviewed cloud platforms across migration, DevOps, security and AI workloads.

He holds a PhD in Information Technology from the University of the Cumberlands (2024). His dissertation studied how small and mid-size companies adopt cloud computing, and what that adoption does to their costs, their users and their performance. That research is the reason this practice works the way it does: the audit looks at your bill and your architecture together, because for a growing company they are the same problem.

In the classroom, he is an adjunct professor at the University of the Cumberlands, teaching graduate courses in Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Operating Systems, and he serves as a dissertation chair and committee member at Capitol Technology University. He founded Primus Learning in Buea, Cameroon, which has trained over 500 people.

Primus Cloud Solutions takes on a small number of engagements at a time, so the work stays senior and the advice stays honest. If the audit finds your accounts are already in good shape, the report will say so.

Credentials

  • PhD in Information Technology, University of the Cumberlands, 2024
  • AWS Solutions Architect Professional
  • AWS DevOps Engineer Professional
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Terraform Associate
  • Dissertation Chair and Committee Member, Capitol Technology University
  • Founder, Primus Learning and Primus Cloud Solutions
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