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DevOps services for startups

Cloud DevOps for funded teams of 5–25 engineers, in four products with fixed public prices. Every one delivered as code in your own repos and cloud accounts, on AWS, GCP, or Azure, with monitoring included by default.

Packages

What we offer

Infra & Cost Audit

$1,900 fixed price

Know exactly what's wrong, what's risky, and what's overpriced.

5 business days

Guarantee: We find at least $10,000/year in savings and risks — or the audit is free.

Best if: Your cloud bill looks scary, or you inherited infrastructure nobody fully understands.

  • Read-only access — we change nothing
  • Full review of infrastructure, security, and cloud spend
  • Severity-ranked report you can act on in-house
  • Cost-saving opportunities with dollar estimates
  • 90-day fix roadmap, prioritized by impact
  • 60-minute walkthrough call of the findings
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Cloud Launch Package

$5,900 fixed price

Production-grade infrastructure from scratch, in 2–3 weeks.

2–3 weeks

Best if: You're on Heroku/Vercel or nothing, and it's time for real cloud infrastructure.

  • AWS, GCP, or Azure — your choice
  • Everything as Terraform code, in your repos
  • CI/CD pipelines for your apps
  • Monitoring, logging, and SLO dashboards included
  • Security baseline and access controls
  • Handover docs your team can actually use
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SOC 2-Ready Infrastructure

$6,900 fixed price

The infrastructure side of SOC 2, done — so the enterprise deal can close.

3–4 weeks

Guarantee: Scoped against your Vanta or Drata checks — we work until the infrastructure ones pass.

Best if: An enterprise customer is asking for SOC 2 and your infrastructure isn't ready.

  • Gap assessment against SOC 2 trust criteria
  • Access control: SSO, least privilege, offboarding
  • Centralized logging and audit trails
  • Encryption at rest and in transit, everywhere
  • Backups and disaster recovery — with tested restores
  • Vanta / Drata evidence collection wired up
  • Auditor-ready documentation of all of it
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Fractional DevOps

$2,900 per month

A senior DevOps engineer on your team — without the hire.

Ongoing · pause or cancel anytime

Best if: You want senior infrastructure work every month without a $200K hire.

  • Request queue: one active request, 2–3 day turnaround
  • Kubernetes, CI/CD, Terraform, and platform work
  • Cloud cost review every month
  • SOC 2 infrastructure kept compliant
  • Written progress update every Friday
  • Response within 4 business hours
  • Flat price — never open-ended hourly
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Full coverage

Everything the retainer covers

The Fractional DevOps retainer isn't a menu with hidden extras. If it's infrastructure, it's covered:

Kubernetes & platform

Cluster setup, upgrades, GitOps, and internal tooling your developers actually like using.

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions or GitLab pipelines that ship every merge safely — build, test, deploy, roll back.

Terraform / IaC

Every piece of infrastructure written as code, reviewed like code, and living in your repos.

Cost optimization

Monthly reviews of your cloud bill. Right-sizing, reserved capacity, and killing what you don't use.

SOC 2 infrastructure

The infrastructure side of SOC 2: logging, access controls, encryption, and evidence for your auditor. Works with Vanta and Drata.

Monitoring & logging

Grafana, Prometheus, and centralized logs — dashboards for uptime, latency, errors, and spend.

SLOs & alerting

Real service-level objectives with error budgets, and alerts that wake the right person for the right reasons.

Scaling & future-proofing

Architecture that survives your next 10x — load handled, single points of failure removed, growth planned.

All three clouds

AWS, GCP, and Azure — setup, migration between them, or making sense of the one you're already on.

Questions

What startups ask before buying

What do DevOps services for a startup actually include?

For a team of 5-25 engineers: infrastructure written as code, a CI/CD pipeline that ships every merge safely, Kubernetes or managed containers depending on what your workloads justify, monitoring and alerting, cloud cost control, and the access and logging controls an enterprise customer or auditor will eventually ask about. Everything is built in your own repos and cloud accounts.

How much do DevOps services cost for a startup?

Ours are published: a $1,900 infrastructure and cost audit, a Cloud Launch build, SOC 2-ready infrastructure at $6,900, and a fractional retainer at $2,900/month flat. Across the market, agencies typically quote $5,000-10,000+ per month and usually hide the number until a sales call. A full-time senior hire runs $200-300K fully loaded and takes 3-6 months to find.

How quickly can you start?

Usually within a week. An audit takes about two weeks end to end; a Cloud Launch build is two to three weeks; a retainer starts with a queue you add requests to, with a two to three day typical turnaround per item.

Do we keep the infrastructure if we stop working with you?

Yes, all of it. Everything is built as code in your repositories and your cloud accounts, documented so a new hire can pick it up. There is no proprietary platform to be locked into and nothing to migrate off. You can pause or cancel a retainer any month.

Do you work with AWS, GCP, and Azure?

All three, including migrations between them. Most startups we work with are on one primary cloud; the decisions that matter for a small team are usually about defaults, managed services, and cost rather than which logo is on the bill.

How we think about this work

Every package below is documented in public. Read the method before you buy the outcome.

Platform engineering vs DevOps

The golden-path approach behind every build we ship.

Read the guide →

The SOC 2 infrastructure checklist

The controls behind the SOC 2-Ready Infrastructure package.

Read the guide →

How to cut your AWS bill 30%

The checks that make up the Infra & Cost Audit.

Read the guide →

Zero-downtime deploys with migrations

The delivery discipline included in every Cloud Launch build.

Read the guide →

Argo CD vs Flux

How we choose the GitOps controller your team will operate daily.

Read the guide →

Preview environments vs staging

The pipeline pattern that retires the shared staging queue.

Read the guide →

Not sure which package fits? That's what the call is for.

A 15-minute call is enough to tell you exactly what we'd do and what it costs. No pitch deck, no pressure.

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