Three ways your architecture fails.
Before it actually does.
Every Stratum engagement starts with a failure taxonomy. We model the cascade before you ship it.
Cost Drift
The bill you didn't see coming
Idle EC2 instances, over-provisioned RDS, unused Elastic IPs, and forgotten NAT Gateway data transfer charges accumulate silently. By the time your $8K/mo baseline hits $43K, you're already three weeks behind.
Cost Topology Mapping
Cost Topology Mapping
Stratum traces every dollar to a specific resource, AZ, and traffic pattern. Our 12-month cost projection model identifies $24,800 in recoverable spend before you commit to a new architecture.
Single-Region Fragility
One AZ hiccup, full customer impact
Your monolith runs in us-east-1a. When AWS had a partial AZ failure in December, you were down for 47 minutes. The RTO in your runbook says 15. Multi-region isn't optional anymore — it's the price of a Black Friday SLA.
Failover Cascade Simulation
Failover Cascade Simulation
We model 23 distinct failure scenarios across your topology — AZ outage, region partition, database primary failure, CDN edge degradation. The simulation report shows exactly which paths cascade and which ones hold.
Over-Provisioned Idle Compute
EKS cluster running at 11% utilization
You provisioned for Black Friday in April. It's now August. Your node group has 18 m5.2xlarge instances humming at 11% average CPU. That's $14,400/month to keep the lights on for traffic that peaks at 3× baseline for 72 hours a year.
Traffic-Pattern Autoscaling Model
Traffic-Pattern Autoscaling Model
Stratum replays 12 months of your actual traffic patterns against a proposed cluster configuration — Karpenter node provisioner, Spot Fleet mix, HPA tuning — and outputs the minimum viable cluster that survives your actual peak, not your imagined one.
EKS vs AKS vs GKE.
With real numbers.
Scores reflect Stratum simulation data across 847 production topologies tested in 2025–2026. Hover any cell for detail.
See Full Benchmark PDF→Scores: 0–100 · Higher = better resilience/economics for that dimension
Last updated: Feb 2026 · n=847 topologies
Real numbers.
Real topologies.
"We had a $43K monthly bill and no idea where $18K of it was going. Stratum traced it to three idle NAT Gateways and a forgotten data transfer loop between AZs. Fixed in a week."
"We were migrating a 7-year-old Rails monolith to EKS. Stratum ran the Black Friday simulation against our proposed topology and found the connection pool exhaustion before we shipped it. That would have been a very bad December."
"Our team spent two months reading EKS vs GKE blog posts. Stratum ran both topologies against our actual traffic patterns and handed us a 34-page report. We chose GKE Autopilot. Saved $8,200/month versus our EKS estimate."
See your topology
before it breaks.
Tell us your provider and spend tier. We'll show you which of the 23 failure dimensions apply to your stack — in 48 hours.
Simulate Your Stack
Get a 48-hour simulation report showing exactly where your architecture would fail under load.
Full Benchmark Report
34-page deep-dive comparing AWS, Azure, and GCP across all 9 failure dimensions. Includes real cost models, latency benchmarks, and the 5 topologies most likely to break under Black Friday load.