Design it once. Build it properly.
Stop overpaying for it.
We design, build and tune AWS infrastructure for teams running real production workloads. Not advice from a deck. We have owned this kind of system, including the parts that break at 3am.
Recent engagement, B2B SaaS with real-time data-intensive workloads. Zero downtime, zero failed migrations. Full case study available on request.
What we do
Six things, all on AWS. Most engagements are two or three of them at once.
Architecture and design
Deciding what to build before anyone builds it. Which services, how the data is shaped, where the blast radius stops, and what this looks like at ten times the traffic. Also design reviews of a plan you already have, while changing it is still cheap.
AWS architecture design and reviewBuilding it
Hands on the keyboard, not a diagram handed to your team. Networking, containers, databases, queues and the deployment pipeline, defined in Terraform so the whole environment can be rebuilt from the repository rather than remembered.
Terraform and AWS implementationMigration and modernization
Moving onto AWS, or off the things quietly costing you: self-managed databases, servers doing work a managed service does better, an architecture that made sense three years ago. Planned in stages so you are never mid-jump.
AWS migration and modernizationReliability
Deploys that roll back on their own, backups someone has actually restored from, and alarms that fire before a customer writes in. Most outages we have seen were not exotic. They were a missing guardrail nobody had got round to.
AWS reliability and disaster recoverySecurity and data residency
Least-privilege IAM, secrets kept out of environment variables and source control, encryption where it genuinely matters. For Canadian clients, keeping data in Canadian regions and being able to show a customer exactly where it lives.
AWS security and Canadian data residencyCost engineering
The work this practice was built on. Finding the spend that buys you nothing, and removing it without anyone noticing a difference in the product. Usually the fastest way to prove the engagement pays for itself.
AWS cost optimizationThe easiest place to start: the 2-week AWS Cost Audit
If we have not worked together, this is the low-risk way to begin. Read-only IAM access, so your engineers stay on their roadmap. You get a 25 to 40 page report ranked by dollar impact, effort and risk, plus a 90-minute findings review with your leadership team.
It is also the most honest introduction we can offer. By the end you have seen how we think about your systems, and you can decide whether you want us anywhere near the rest of them.
- Findings ranked by dollar savings, effort, and risk
- 30 / 60 / 90-day implementation roadmap
- Reliability, security and architecture flags surfaced along the way
- Read-only IAM role, no production access
- $5,000 savings guarantee. If we don't find it, you don't pay
What the audit usually turns up
Idle compute
Non-production environments running 24/7 when they are only used during work hours. Usually 10 to 20% of the bill, shut down with zero risk.
Outdated instances
Old-generation EC2 and stale RDS engine versions still running at higher rates than necessary. Quiet, accumulating money.
Storage cruft
Orphaned EBS volumes, ancient snapshots, multi-region S3 replication nobody set up intentionally. Common 5 to 10% wins.
Backup architecture
Expensive third-party backup setups that AWS native services do for a fraction of the cost, often with better recovery semantics.
Who this is for
Engineering teams running production workloads on AWS who do not have a dedicated AWS specialist, and are feeling it in one of three ways.
- The bill is climbing faster than the business. Typically between $15K and $100K a month, growing in a way nobody can fully explain.
- Something significant needs building. A new platform, a serious migration, a rearchitecture, and the cost of getting the foundations wrong is high.
- It works, but nobody is comfortable. Deploys are held breath, the restore has never been tested, and one person is the single point of failure.
Any of those is worth a conversation. If it is not a fit, we will tell you rather than sell you something.
We are based in Canada and work remotely with teams across North America and Europe. For Canadian companies with data residency requirements, we build in Canadian AWS regions by default. If you need ongoing help rather than a project, we also work as a fractional AWS engineer embedded in your team. More answers are in the FAQ.
Worth 15 minutes?
Tell us what you are running and what is bothering you about it. If it is not a fit, we will say so on the call.