AWS infrastructure, built as code for real load
AWS has more than two hundred services, and most accounts we open use them the hard way: one account for everything, keys on laptops, a bill nobody can explain. We build AWS environments that scale with your traffic and stay understandable: separate accounts, least-privilege access, the right compute for each workload, and every resource in Terraform in your repository.
From the first account to global traffic
New environments, takeovers of existing ones, and migrations from other clouds or your own servers.
Landing Zone & Accounts
AWS Organizations with accounts per environment and function, IAM Identity Center for single sign-on, service control policies as guardrails, CloudTrail and Config feeding a locked log account.
Networking
VPCs across availability zones, private subnets by default, Transit Gateway or peering between accounts, VPC endpoints that keep traffic off the internet and off the NAT bill.
Compute
ECS on Fargate for services, EKS for larger platforms, Lambda for events and glue, EC2 Auto Scaling groups with Graviton or Spot where they pay off.
Data & Storage
Aurora and RDS with read replicas and point-in-time recovery, DynamoDB for key-value scale, ElastiCache for hot data, S3 with lifecycle rules and replication.
Event-Driven Systems
SQS queues that absorb spikes, SNS and EventBridge for fan-out, Kinesis or MSK for streams, Step Functions for workflows that must finish even when a step fails.
Edge & Delivery
CloudFront in front of everything cacheable, AWS WAF and Shield against abuse, Route 53 health checks and failover, Application Load Balancers with zero-downtime deploys.
Security
Roles instead of access keys, OIDC from CI instead of stored secrets, Secrets Manager, KMS encryption, GuardDuty and Security Hub findings routed to a person who acts on them.
Observability
CloudWatch metrics and alarms, X-Ray or OpenTelemetry traces, structured logs with retention you chose on purpose, dashboards built around user-facing objectives.
Cost Optimization
Tagging and the Cost and Usage Report, rightsizing, Savings Plans, Graviton and Spot, S3 storage classes, and budgets with anomaly alerts per account.
The AWS calls we make most often
Every AWS problem has three possible services. These are the choices that come up on almost every project, and how we usually decide.
| Decision | Our default | When we choose otherwise |
|---|---|---|
| Running services | ECS on Fargate: containers without servers or a cluster to patch. | EKS for many services or Kubernetes tooling; Lambda for event handlers; EC2 for GPUs or software that needs a host. |
| Relational database | Aurora PostgreSQL with a reader endpoint and point-in-time recovery. | RDS for small, steady workloads where Aurora's pricing does not pay off; Aurora Serverless v2 for spiky ones. |
| Key-value at scale | DynamoDB with on-demand capacity, designed around access patterns from day one. | ElastiCache when the data is a cache, not a record; PostgreSQL when queries are still changing. |
| Async work | SQS with a dead-letter queue, consumers that scale on queue depth. | EventBridge for routing many event types; Kinesis or MSK when order and replay matter. |
| Infrastructure as code | Terraform or OpenTofu with remote state in S3 and locking. | AWS CDK when your team prefers TypeScript or Python and lives entirely on AWS. |
Moving to AWS without a dark weekend
From another cloud, a hosting provider or your own racks. The order is always the same, and every step can be undone.
Inventory
Every server, database, cron job, DNS record and hidden dependency, written down, with what each one costs and who relies on it.
Landing zone
Accounts, network, access and logging built as code first, so the workloads arrive somewhere secure and observable.
Replicate & rehearse
Data replicated continuously, services running in parallel, the cutover rehearsed on staging until it is boring.
Shift & retire
Traffic moved in steps with weighted DNS, rollback ready until the numbers hold, then the old side switched off and its bill with it.
AWS questions, answered
What teams ask before they hand us their AWS accounts.
Why use several AWS accounts instead of one?
An account is the strongest boundary AWS offers. Separate accounts for production, staging, shared services, logging and security keep a mistake in one from touching the others, make the bill readable per environment or team, and let you apply guardrails with service control policies. With AWS Organizations and IAM Identity Center, people still sign in once.
ECS, EKS or Lambda?
Lambda for event-driven and spiky work, ECS on Fargate for most web services and APIs, EKS when you run many services, need Kubernetes tooling, or want the same platform on another cloud. Most of the systems we build use two of the three. We pick per workload and write down why.
Can you migrate us to AWS without downtime?
Yes, for almost every system. We build the target environment as code, replicate data continuously with AWS DMS or native replication, run both sides in parallel, move traffic in steps with weighted DNS, and keep a rehearsed rollback until the old side is switched off. The cutover itself is usually a short, planned window or none at all.
How do you reduce an AWS bill?
We start with Cost Explorer and the Cost and Usage Report, tagged by service and team. The usual wins are rightsizing instances and databases, Graviton instances, Savings Plans for steady load, Spot for interruptible work, S3 lifecycle rules, and removing NAT gateway and cross-zone traffic that nobody meant to pay for. Then budgets and anomaly alerts keep it there.
Do you work in our AWS account or yours?
Always yours. We get role-based access through IAM Identity Center, never shared root credentials, and every resource is created by Terraform in your repository. You pay AWS directly, with no reseller margin, and you can remove our access at any time.
Can you help us prepare for a security or compliance review?
Yes. We set up the controls auditors look for in frameworks such as SOC 2, ISO 27001 and GDPR: centralized CloudTrail logs in a locked account, AWS Config rules, GuardDuty and Security Hub findings routed to a person, encryption with KMS, least-privilege IAM and documented backup and recovery. The audit itself is done by your assessor.
Can you explain your AWS bill line by line?
Send us what worries you: cost, reliability, security or a migration. We review the account, write down what we find, and give you a fixed quote for the fixes.
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