Cloud & DevOps

Deploys shouldn't be an event

If nobody ships on a Friday, if a release needs a specific person's laptop, if you found out about the last outage from a customer, none of that is a discipline problem. It's missing infrastructure, and it's fixable in weeks. We do that work for teams who need it done properly and can't justify a full-time DevOps hire.

Your AWS account, your code, your control · Fixed price · No lock-in and no proprietary tooling

TODAYWrittenTestedwaiting for reviewReviewedmanual QADeployed“let's do Tuesday”VerifiedDays, sometimes weeksAFTERWrittenTestedReviewedDeployedVerifiedUnder an hour
Deploy comparison: today versus after
TodayAfter
Code to liveDays, sometimes weeksUnder an hour
GapsWaiting for review · manual QA · “let's do it Tuesday” · someone's laptopAutomated tests · automated deploy
RollbackRestore from backup, hopeOne command, two minutes
Who can do itOne personAnyone on the team

The cost isn't the deploy. It's every fix that waited for one.

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Scope, before anything else

DevOps buyers assume a vendor is claiming 24/7 coverage unless told otherwise. Here's the honest boundary.

What we do

Cloud cost reduction

Find what you're paying for and don't use, and cut it. Measurable, and usually the first thing worth doing.

CI/CD and automated deployment

Testing, building, and shipping without anyone's laptop involved, with a rollback that works.

Infrastructure as code

Your environment reproducible from a repository instead of assembled by hand and remembered by one person.

Migrations

Off Heroku, off a legacy VPS, between clouds, or onto managed services. Planned, staged, reversible.

Monitoring and alerting

So problems reach someone before a customer does, and so an incident can be investigated rather than guessed at.

Security and access hardening

Least-privilege IAM, secrets out of code, encryption, and the controls your customers' security questionnaires ask about.

What we don't do

24/7 on-call incident response

We're one team in one timezone. We won't sell you a rotation we can't staff, and a vendor promising 3am hands from a single office should worry you. What we do instead is set up monitoring that alerts your people, write runbooks so whoever is awake can act, and commit to same-business-day response in our overlap hours. If you genuinely need someone awake at all hours, hire a managed provider, and we'll happily set the infrastructure up so they can run it.

Large-scale Kubernetes platform engineering

Running a multi-tenant Kubernetes platform with a dedicated team is a specialism. We'll containerise your application properly with Docker and run it on managed services, ECS, Fargate, Cloud Run, App Runner, which is what most teams at your size actually need.

Managed security operations

We harden infrastructure and follow sound practice. We're not a SOC, we don't do threat monitoring or incident forensics, and we won't pretend to.

Compliance certification

We build so SOC 2 or ISO 27001 is achievable and we'll implement the technical controls. The audit itself needs an auditor. Any firm telling you they'll “get you SOC 2” is describing something they can't deliver alone.

A vendor who won't tell you what they can't cover is a vendor you'll find out about during an incident.
What We Do

Five problems, in the order people usually have them

Find what you're paying for and don't use

Idle instances, oversized databases, unattached volumes, forgotten environments, data transfer nobody understands. This is almost always the first pass and it's almost always significant.

Right-size and commit

Match instance types to actual load, then use reserved or savings plans on the baseline. Most teams are paying on-demand rates for capacity they've run continuously for two years.

Architecture changes that cut the bill

Moving to managed services, containerising to pack workloads better, or shifting batch work to spot capacity where interruption is fine.

Ongoing visibility

Spend broken down by service and environment, with alerts when something moves, so the next increase gets noticed in days rather than at renewal.

If you're also building something new, infrastructure comes as part of the build rather than as a separate engagement, see web applications.

What changes in your month

A month now

Week 1

A fix is ready. It ships next Tuesday, with the other changes, when the person who does deploys is in.

Week 2

The site is slow. Nobody can say why. Someone SSHes in and looks at top.

Week 3

A customer reports an outage. It had been running for forty minutes.

Week 4

The AWS bill arrives, up again. Nobody can say which service moved.

Any week

A new developer takes three days to get running locally.

In the background

One person knows how the deploy works, and they're on leave next month.

A month after

Week 1

The fix shipped forty minutes after it was written, by whoever wrote it.

Week 2

The slow query was in the dashboard before anyone asked.

Week 3

The alert fired at minute one. The runbook said what to check.

Week 4

The bill is lower, broken down by service, and an alert would have flagged a jump.

Any week

A new developer is running locally in an hour, from the README.

In the background

The deploy is a pipeline. Anyone can run it. Nobody is a single point of failure.

The two numbers we baseline in week one are deploy frequency and monthly cloud spend, because both are unambiguous and both are yours to verify. Everything else on this page is downstream of those two.

A cloud cost and readiness audit

$299One week

The easiest way to find out whether we're useful, and the one engagement that frequently pays for itself before it finishes.

What we do

Read-only access to your cloud account. We go through every running resource, what it costs, and whether anything uses it. Then the same for the things a bill doesn't show: whether backups restore, whether monitoring reaches anyone, whether deploys depend on a person, and where the access model is loose.

What you get

A costed list of savings

Each with the change required and the risk of making it, sorted by ratio of saving to effort. Most lists have several items that are an afternoon's work.

A readiness assessment

Backups, monitoring, deploy process, access control, single points of failure, with what's fine, what's urgent, and what can wait.

A straight answer on whether you need ongoing help

Sometimes the finding is that your setup is sound and the fixes are three afternoons your own developer can do. We'll say so, in writing.

What you're not committing to

Nothing. The report is yours. Hand it to your team, another firm, or nobody. We'd rather run audits that go elsewhere than have you wonder whether the findings were shaped by wanting the follow-on work.

Book a cost audit

If you go ahead with the work, the audit fee comes off it.

Four phases

01

Audit and baseline

1 week

The cost and readiness audit above, whether or not you bought it separately. We baseline deploy frequency and monthly spend so the outcome is provable rather than asserted. You get the written assessment regardless of what happens next.

02

Fixed scope and quote

2–3 days

A written scope, fixed price, and delivery date, sequenced so the highest-value and lowest-risk changes come first. If scope moves, we re-quote in writing first.

03

Change one thing at a time

scoped per project

Infrastructure work is not a rewrite. Each change is made, verified, and left running before the next begins, with a documented way back from every one. Nothing gets migrated on a Friday. Written update every Friday plus a short Loom walkthrough.

04

Hand over, then monitor

ongoing

Everything documented, runbooks, architecture notes, access inventory, and walked through with your team so they can operate it. Then, if you want it: monitoring review, cost review, dependency and security patching, and a set amount of work each month.

Four signals, and one that means you don't need us

You need this if one person can deploy

Not “one person usually does”, one person can. That's a business risk before it's a technical one, and it's the most common reason teams call.

You need this if you found out about an outage from a customer

Monitoring either doesn't exist or isn't routed to a human. This is the cheapest gap on the list to close and the most expensive to leave.

You need this if the bill grows and nobody can explain it

Untracked spend compounds quietly. It's also the easiest thing to fix and the easiest to prove, which is why we lead with it.

You need this if a new developer takes days to get running

That's a symptom of infrastructure that exists in someone's head rather than in a repository, and it slows everything downstream.

You probably don't need us if…

You have a working pipeline, tested backups, monitoring that reaches someone, and a bill you can explain. Some teams call us and the honest answer is that their setup is fine and they've been told otherwise by someone selling something. We'll tell you that on the call rather than after the audit.

If you're not sure what you're buying yet, a discovery sprint is the more useful first step, it ends in a written specification you own either way.

The stack

Deliberately mainstream. Nothing proprietary, nothing that needs us specifically to operate.

Cloud

AWSGoogle CloudAzureDigitalOceanVercelRailwayFly.io

Containers and compute

DockerECSFargateCloud RunApp RunnerEC2LambdaCloud Functions

CI/CD

GitHub ActionsGitLab CICircleCIAWS CodePipelineBitbucket Pipelines

Infrastructure as code

TerraformAWS CDKCloudFormationPulumiAnsible

Data and storage

RDSAuroraPostgresMySQLRedisElastiCacheS3CloudFront

Monitoring and observability

CloudWatchSentryGrafanaPrometheusDatadogBetter StackUptime monitoring

Security

IAM and least-privilege policiesAWS Secrets ManagerVaultWAFVPC designEncryption in transit and at rest

We work in your accounts, with your billing, under your control. No agency-owned infrastructure, no proprietary tooling, nothing you'd have to unpick if you stopped working with us.

Is infrastructure work what you need?

Honest answer: if the complaint is "it's slow" and nobody has measured what's slow, that's an afternoon of investigation before it's a project. Start with the audit, it's the cheapest way to find out whether there's a project here at all.

What it costs

Fixed price, quoted in writing before we start. No hourly billing, no surprise change orders.

Cost and readiness audit

One week, read-only access, a costed savings list and a readiness assessment you keep. Comes off the cost of any work that follows.

$299

Good for: finding out whether there's a problem worth paying to fix.

Infrastructure project

A defined piece of work: CI/CD implementation, a migration, containerisation, monitoring and alerting, or security hardening. Scoped, fixed price, documented, handed over. Includes the first month of support.

Scoped and quoted after the audit

Good for: you know what's broken and want it fixed properly once.

Ongoing infrastructure partner

Monitoring review, cost review, security and dependency patching, and a set amount of infrastructure work each month. Business-hours support in our overlap window, not a 24/7 rotation.

A monthly plan sized to your infrastructure

Good for: teams without a DevOps hire who need someone watching. Most clients end up here.

You can stop the monthly plan at any time and everything keeps running, it's in your accounts, defined in code in your repository, and documented. That's the whole design. This project work sets monitoring up; running it afterwards is infrastructure & monitoring.

Common questions

Do you offer 24/7 support?

No, and we'd rather say so plainly. We're one team in one timezone and we won't sell an on-call rotation we can't staff. What we do is configure monitoring that alerts your people, write runbooks so whoever is available can act, and commit to same-business-day response in our overlap hours with US Eastern and UK time. If you genuinely need 3am hands, hire a managed provider, we'll set things up so they can run it.

How much can you actually cut our cloud bill?

It depends entirely on what's running, which is why we start with an audit rather than a promise. The common findings are consistent: environments nobody uses, instances sized for a load that never arrived, storage nobody deleted, and on-demand pricing on capacity that's been running for years. The audit gives you a costed list and you decide what's worth doing.

Will you need access to our production systems?

For the audit, read-only access is enough and that's what we ask for. For implementation, we agree the access needed for each piece of work and remove it afterwards. Everything is in your accounts under your control, and you can revoke access at any moment.

We don't have a DevOps person. Is that a problem?

That's most of who this page is for. Teams of ten to fifty who know what they're missing and can't justify a specialist hire. We set things up so your existing developers can operate them, mainstream tools, defined in code, documented, rather than building something that needs us.

Can you migrate us off Heroku?

Yes, it's a common project. Staged and reversible, usually onto containers on managed services, typically at meaningfully lower cost. The main work is the unglamorous part, environment variables, add-ons, background workers, DNS, and cutover sequencing, and that's where migrations go wrong when they go wrong.

Do you do Kubernetes?

We'll containerise your application with Docker and run it on managed services, ECS, Fargate, Cloud Run, App Runner, which is what most teams at this size need. Running a full Kubernetes platform is a specialism with a dedicated team behind it, and if you genuinely need that, you need a platform engineering firm.

Can you get us SOC 2 compliant?

We implement the technical controls, access management, encryption, logging, backup and recovery, change management, and we build so certification is achievable. The audit itself requires an auditor, and any firm claiming they'll “get you SOC 2” on their own is describing something they can't deliver.

What if we stop working with you?

Everything keeps running. It's in your cloud accounts, defined as code in your repository, and documented with runbooks. There's no agency-owned infrastructure and no proprietary tooling to unpick. That's deliberate, it's what makes the monthly plan a choice rather than a dependency.

How long does the work take?

The audit is a week. A defined project, CI/CD, a migration, monitoring, is typically scoped and quoted after that audit, done one change at a time with each verified before the next. Infrastructure work that moves fast is infrastructure work that breaks things.

Do you work with Azure and Google Cloud too?

Yes. AWS is the most common in our work, and the practices are the same across all three. If you're choosing between them, we'll give you an honest opinion on the call, we hold no partner relationships that would shape the answer.

How do you work with clients abroad?

We're in Ahmedabad, India, with 2–3 hours of daily overlap with US Eastern and UK working hours and a same-business-day response commitment during those hours. A written update every Friday plus a short Loom walkthrough of what changed.

Find out what you're paying for.

A week, a fixed fee, read-only access, and a costed list of what to fix, yours to keep whether you work with us or not.