Scale-Stage

🛡️ After the MVP: Slashing Cloud Costs & Securing Growth

6 min readApril 10, 2025

Once your product gains traction, we help startups streamline cloud spend and get audit-ready — without hiring full-time engineers.

The Post-MVP Challenge

You've built your MVP, found product-market fit, and started to scale. Congratulations! But with growth comes new challenges:

  • 💰 Runaway cloud costs - What started as a simple AWS setup is now costing thousands per month with no clear optimization strategy.
  • 🔒 Security concerns - Enterprise customers and investors are asking about your security posture, and you need to get SOC 2 ready.
  • 🔄 Scaling bottlenecks - Your infrastructure wasn't built for the load it's now handling, causing performance issues and technical debt.

Hiring full-time DevOps engineers or security specialists is expensive and often overkill for early-stage companies. That's where our Scale-Stage Support services come in.

Our Scale-Stage Solutions

We've productized two key services that growing startups need most:

FinOps: Cloud Cost Optimization

Stop overpaying for cloud resources. Our fixed-price FinOps package identifies savings of at least 30% in your AWS/GCP/Azure spend through:

  • Resource utilization analysis
  • Reserved instance planning
  • Auto-scaling implementation
  • Rightsizing recommendations

Fixed price: $2,500 with 30-day implementation

SecOps: Security & Compliance

Get audit-ready without the enterprise price tag. Our SecOps package implements the security controls investors and enterprise customers demand:

  • SOC 2 readiness assessment
  • Security policy templates
  • Automated compliance checks
  • Access control implementation

Fixed price: $3,500 with 45-day implementation

Why Productized Services?

Unlike traditional consulting engagements, our productized approach offers:

  • Fixed pricing with no surprises
  • Defined timelines and deliverables
  • Implementation, not just recommendations
  • Knowledge transfer to your team

We've helped dozens of post-MVP startups optimize their infrastructure and security posture without the overhead of hiring specialized full-time staff.

Ready to optimize your post-MVP infrastructure?

Let's talk about how we can help you slash cloud costs and get security-ready for your next growth phase.

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