DevOps and cloud solutions
Run on AWS without the surprises.
Bills that keep growing. Releases that break things. Backups nobody has tested. We find the problems in your cloud setup, fix them and show your team how it all works.
Audits
Start with an audit.
Find out where you stand before you spend on fixes. Each audit ends in a written report: what we found, how serious it is and what to do about it.
Cloud cost audit
Where your money goes and what is wasted, with a savings plan in priority order and estimated savings for each step.
Cloud security audit
Who can get in, how your network is exposed, what is open to the internet and what is not encrypted. Every finding rated by severity, with the fix.
AWS Well‑Architected Review
Your setup checked against AWS’s own framework: security, reliability, performance, cost, operations and sustainability.
Delivery and DevOps assessment
How changes get from your developers to your customers today, and a clear roadmap to improve it.
Compliance readiness
A gap analysis against SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS or GDPR, so you know what to fix first.
Disaster recovery assessment
How long you would be down and how much data you would lose if something failed, with a recovery design to close the gap.
Technical due diligence
A report on infrastructure and architecture for investors, or before an acquisition.
Cost
Pay for what you use.
Most cloud bills grow quietly: servers bigger than they need to be, full prices for steady use, and storage nobody remembers. We find it and cut it.
Your monthly cloud bill
- Right-size. Smaller servers and databases where they sit idle.
- Commit. Discounts for the usage you can predict.
- Clean up. Old storage and resources nobody uses.
- Servers, databases and containers sized to what you actually use
- Discounts for steady use (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances) and cheaper spare capacity (Spot) where it fits
- Cheaper ARM processors (Graviton) where your software runs on them
- Costs tagged by team, project and environment, so you can see who spends what
- Budgets, alerts for unusual spend, and cost dashboards
- Old storage cleaned up, with rules that archive or delete data as it ages
- Lower network and data-transfer charges
Releases
Ship changes without breaking things.
Every change goes through the same checks before it reaches customers. The new version runs alongside the old one, and customers move over only when it passes.
Every change, every time
Blue/green release
- Every change built, tested and deployed by a pipeline (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket or Jenkins)
- Releases without downtime: switch over all at once (blue/green), try the change on a few users first (canary), or update servers in turns (rolling)
- Automatic rollback when a release goes wrong
- Faster pipelines, so fixes reach customers sooner
- Separate dev, staging and production environments
Monitoring
Hear about problems before your customers do.
We set up dashboards that show how things are running, and alerts that reach your team when something goes wrong, with the logs and traces to find out why.
- Logs
- Traces
- Errors
- Dashboards and alerts for the things that matter to customers
- All your logs in one place, centralised and searchable
- Tracing that follows one request through every part of your system
- Application error tracking
- Fewer, more useful alerts, so real problems are not lost in noise
Backup and recovery
Recover when the worst happens.
When something fails, two things matter: how much data you lose since the last backup, and how long you are down. A tested recovery plan keeps both small.
If something fails
- Data lost. Everything since the last good backup.
- Time down. From the failure until you are back online.
- Automatic backups
- Disaster recovery, including recovery in a second region
- Recovery drills and restore tests, with a written report
Also
Everything else your cloud needs.
Lock it down
Close the gaps attackers look for first.
- Everyone gets only the access they need (IAM)
- Passwords and keys moved out of code into a secrets manager
- Security scans in every pipeline
- Threat detection and audit logs
- A web application firewall (WAF) and DDoS protection
- Data encrypted when stored and when sent
- Fixes for findings from security audits
Stay up and stay fast
One failure should not take you offline.
- Running in more than one data centre (availability zone) or region
- Load testing and capacity planning before a launch or a busy season
- Application, database and caching tuning for speed
Move to AWS, set up properly
Start on a clean, organised foundation.
- AWS accounts set up on a solid foundation, split across several accounts
- Private network (VPC) design and build
- Migration from your own servers or another cloud
- Existing applications packaged into containers
- Database moves and version upgrades with minimal downtime
Infrastructure as code
Your setup written down as code, so it can be reviewed, repeated and rebuilt.
- Your existing setup converted to code (Terraform)
- Reusable building blocks (modules) for new environments
- Messy infrastructure code cleaned up and restructured, with its state managed safely
- Server images (AMIs) built automatically (Packer)
Containers and Kubernetes
Containers package an app so it runs the same everywhere, and more copies start when traffic rises.
- Containers on AWS, with or without servers to manage (ECS, Fargate)
- Kubernetes clusters on AWS (EKS)
- Smaller, hardened container images
- Auto-scaling as traffic rises and falls
Docs and training
Your team should be able to run it without us.
- Architecture diagrams and infrastructure documentation
- Runbooks and incident playbooks
- Hands-on workshops on AWS, Terraform, Docker and CI/CD
How the engagement works
Audits, projects or ongoing.
Audit
Review cost, security and how you ship today.
Plan
Findings ranked, with the fixes in order.
Fix
Make the changes as a scoped project.
Hand over
Docs, runbooks and training, so your team can run it.
Questions.
Can you work on infrastructure you did not build?
Yes. We start by reviewing what runs today, then confirm what can change and in what order.
What access do you need?
Usually your cloud accounts, billing and code repositories. We confirm the exact list, and how much access each step needs, before starting.
Do we have to start with an audit?
No. If you already know what you need, such as a pipeline, a migration or backups, we can scope that directly.
Find out where you stand.
Tell us what you run today, on AWS or elsewhere, and what worries you most about it.
Service terms: Savings in a cost audit are estimates based on your current usage and the prices your cloud provider charges at the time. Work outside the agreed scope is quoted separately.