Cloud Architecture & Engineering

No. Avalon designs and builds to the NIST SP 800-53 baseline your data requires and delivers control-implementation evidence for your assessment. FedRAMP certification belongs to the cloud service provider's offering; your authorization decision rests solely with your Authorizing Official.

A landing-zone build is a three-to-five-person senior team no matter who delivers it, the question is whether those five are the A-team or the bench. For genuinely enterprise-wide programs, Avalon positions as the architecture cell inside a larger team, and says so plainly.

Keep the incumbent; buy a second opinion. A six-to-eight-week independent architecture assessment either validates the incumbent's design or surfaces debt with evidence, and under the simplified acquisition threshold, it requires no recompete and threatens no contract.

Use them, and understand what they optimize for. CSP-funded architects drive consumption on their platform and leave when the workshop ends. They don't produce agency-owned infrastructure-as-code, RMF-grade evidence, or platform-neutral tradeoffs, this service delivers exactly what the free help structurally can't.

That's accurate as of today, and Avalon won't pretend otherwise. The risk answer is structural: named key personnel with verifiable certifications, a fixed-scope fixed-price entry engagement under the simplified acquisition threshold, and objective milestone acceptance criteria.

Under $350K, simplified acquisition moves in days, not months. Larger, a HUBZone set-aside or sole source up to $5.5M for services, a GSA Multiple Award Schedule RFQ, or as a subcontractor on a vehicle you already use.

This service builds the environment, it doesn't move or refactor applications into it (that's Cloud Migration & Development), author the complete SSP, or run ongoing monitoring operations. We're explicit about where each line falls.