Cloud infrastructure and DevOps on AWS
The symptom of missing DevOps practice is usually deploys that happen monthly, at night, with everyone on standby. The cause is that the infrastructure only exists in someone's memory and the console, so nobody can safely change it or rebuild it.
Concretely, what ships
Infrastructure as code
Your environments defined in Terraform and reviewable in a pull request. Staging becomes a real copy of production instead of an approximation, and rebuilding after a bad change is a command rather than an archaeology project.
CI/CD that makes deploying boring
Automated tests, build, and deploy on merge, with preview environments per pull request and a one-step rollback. The goal is deploying on a Tuesday afternoon without ceremony.
Containers and sane orchestration
Dockerised services on ECS or Kubernetes — sized to your team, not to a conference talk. Most teams do not need Kubernetes and we will say so.
Observability you can debug with
Centralised structured logs, metrics, traces and dashboards, with alerts tied to user-visible symptoms rather than every CPU spike. Alert fatigue is an outage waiting to happen.
Backups and a tested recovery path
Automated backups, defined retention, and a restore that has actually been performed. An untested backup is a guess.
Cost visibility and cleanup
Tagging and per-service cost reporting, right-sizing, and removal of the forgotten resources that quietly bill every month. You get a number you can explain.
Security baseline
Least-privilege IAM, private networking with explicit ingress, secrets in a manager, encryption in transit and at rest, and dependency scanning in CI.
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Audit what exists
We inventory your current infrastructure, deploy process, costs and gaps, and hand you a prioritised findings document — useful on its own even if you stop there.
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Codify without downtime
Existing resources brought under Terraform, or replaced alongside and cut over. Nothing gets deleted to be recreated.
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Pipelines, then observability
Deploys made safe and repeatable first, monitoring and alerting next, because you need to see what your deploys are doing.
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Hand over with runbooks
Documented, in your accounts, with runbooks for the incidents you are actually likely to have. Optional ongoing support after that.
- Deploys are infrequent, manual, or scheduled for the middle of the night
- Only one person understands how production is put together
- Your cloud bill is growing and nobody can explain which part
- You have no real staging environment, or incidents are hard to diagnose
- AWS
- Terraform
- Docker
- ECS / Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- CloudWatch / Grafana
- Secrets Manager
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Cloud & DevOps — common questions
If yours isn't here, ask us directly — we answer within one business day.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Probably not. Kubernetes is excellent and it has a real operational cost — someone has to keep it healthy. For most teams a managed container service like ECS Fargate, or even a well-configured platform host, does the same job with a fraction of the maintenance. We recommend Kubernetes when you have the scale or the multi-team complexity that justifies it, and we will tell you when you do not.
Can you reduce our AWS bill?
Usually, and the savings are rarely exotic. It tends to be over-provisioned instances and databases, storage with no lifecycle policy, orphaned volumes and load balancers, cross-AZ traffic nobody intended, and missing savings plans on genuinely steady workloads. We start with an audit that gives you the list and the estimated saving per item, so you can decide what is worth doing.
Will you get locked into supporting us forever?
That is the opposite of the goal. Everything is in your accounts and your repositories, defined in code, with runbooks. Plenty of clients keep us on a support arrangement because it is convenient — but that should be a choice, not a dependency we engineered.
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