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Infrastructure your team can change without holding its breath.

A cloud migration that ends with the same servers, now rented by the hour, has bought you nothing except a bigger bill. The value is in the operating model: environments created from code in minutes, deploys that happen several times a week without ceremony, and telemetry good enough that you learn about problems from a dashboard rather than a customer.

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Deploy cadence we build teams toward
DailyDeploy cadence we build teams toward
Target mean time to restore
<1 hrTarget mean time to restore
Typical first-year cloud spend reduction
20–40%Typical first-year cloud spend reduction

Sounds like

You might recognise one of these.

  • We deploy on Saturday nights because that’s when we can afford to break things.

  • Our cloud bill tripled and nobody can say exactly why.

  • Staging doesn’t look anything like production.

  • We find out about outages from customers.

What this includes

The work, specifically.

Not every engagement needs all of it. This is the range we cover and what each part is actually for.

  • Infrastructure as code

    Terraform or Pulumi for everything, with reviewed changes, plan output on pull requests, and reproducible environments. No console-configured production.

  • CI/CD and release engineering

    Pipelines that run tests, build once, promote the same artifact through environments, and support canary and blue-green rollouts with automated rollback on error budget burn.

  • Observability

    OpenTelemetry traces, structured logs and RED/USE metrics wired in from the first service, plus SLOs and alerts that page on symptoms rather than causes.

  • Cost engineering

    Tagging discipline, per-service unit economics, rightsizing and commitment strategy. We routinely find double-digit percentage savings in the first month, and we show the arithmetic.

  • Resilience and continuity

    Backup and restore that is actually tested, documented recovery objectives, multi-AZ by default and multi-region when the business case supports it.

What you get

Deliverables, not documents.

  • Terraform/Pulumi modules covering every environment
  • CI/CD pipelines with automated rollback
  • SLOs, dashboards and an alert policy on-call can live with
  • Cost baseline with a tracked savings plan
  • Tested disaster-recovery runbook with measured RTO/RPO
  • Platform documentation your engineers maintain after we leave

Shapes

How this usually runs.

  1. Platform assessment

    2–3 weeks

    A review of architecture, delivery pipeline, reliability posture and spend against DORA metrics and the well-architected frameworks, with a ranked backlog.

  2. Foundation build

    6–12 weeks

    Landing zone, networking, identity, pipelines and observability: the substrate everything else deploys onto.

  3. Migration & enablement

    3–9 months

    Workload-by-workload migration with your team embedded, so operational knowledge stays in-house.

Tooling

What we build it with.

No tool here was picked because it was new. Where we do reach for something novel, it is in one place, for a stated reason, and it is written down.

Clouds
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • GovCloud
Infrastructure
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • Kubernetes
  • ECS
  • Docker
Delivery
  • GitHub Actions
  • Azure DevOps
  • ArgoCD
  • Dagger
Observability
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
  • Sentry

Questions

Cloud & platform, honestly.

  • Probably not. Most teams we meet are better served by managed container services or serverless until scale or workload diversity justifies the operational overhead. We’ll recommend the least infrastructure that meets the requirement.

  • Yes, including GovCloud, FedRAMP-aligned boundaries, HIPAA workloads and on-premise deployments where data residency requires it.

  • Then stay. The delivery practices that make cloud valuable (infrastructure as code, pipelines, observability) apply on your own hardware too, and we implement them there.

Further reading

What we think about this, at length.

All insights

Often paired with

Sources

  1. 1.45 CFR Part 164 Subpart C: Security Standards for the Protection of Electronic Protected Health Information, Electronic Code of Federal Regulations

Next step

Tell us what’s breaking.

Forty-five minutes, no charge, no deck. We’ll tell you what we’d do, what it would likely cost, and whether you should be building this at all.

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