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AWS DevOps consulting for startups
We design, build, and run production AWS infrastructure for funded startups: VPC and account architecture, ECS or EKS, RDS, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost control — all as Terraform in your own AWS accounts. AWS is our deepest cloud, and every engagement is fixed-price and published.
Reference architecture
How we build with AWS
Edge
Compute
Data
Platform
Scope
What our AWS consulting covers
- Well-Architected reviews and AWS account/VPC architecture (multi-account, SSO, least-privilege IAM)
- Compute done right: ECS Fargate for simplicity, EKS when Kubernetes is justified
- AWS cost optimization: right-sizing, gp3, Savings Plans, Graviton — audits typically surface 10–40% of spend
- SOC 2-ready AWS: CloudTrail, encryption, backups with tested restores, evidence into Vanta/Drata
- Migrations into AWS from Heroku, Render, or bare VMs — zero-downtime, as code
System design
How we scale systems on AWS
- 1
Stateless first: app tiers scale horizontally behind an ALB with target-tracking auto scaling; state pushed to RDS, ElastiCache, and S3
- 2
Database headroom before crisis: RDS Multi-AZ, read replicas for read-heavy paths, and Aurora when connection counts or storage growth demand it
- 3
Async by design: SQS + worker pools absorb spikes so the API tier never queues user requests behind batch work
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Cost scales sublinearly: Savings Plans on the steady baseline, spot for workers, Graviton where images allow — growth shouldn't multiply the bill 1:1
In practice
What a typical engagement looks like
A 12-engineer SaaS on hand-built EC2 moves to ECS Fargate behind an ALB, everything re-created as Terraform, RDS goes Multi-AZ with tested restores, and a Savings Plan lands on the new baseline — bill down ~28%, deploys from 45 minutes to 8, SOC 2 infrastructure checks green.
Illustrative engagement — representative of typical work at typical scale, not a specific client. See a full sample audit deliverable here.
AWS work is covered by the Fractional DevOps retainer ($2,900/mo) and scoped fixed-price projects — start with the guaranteed $1,900 audit if you want findings before commitments.
Questions
AWS, straight answers
ECS or EKS — which should a startup pick?
ECS Fargate for most teams under ~20 engineers: no cluster to operate, no upgrade cycle, and it scales further than most startups ever need. EKS earns its complexity when you need the Kubernetes ecosystem — many services, custom controllers, ML workloads, or platform requirements. We'll tell you honestly which fits; migrating later is normal, not a failure.
Can you cut our AWS bill without breaking things?
Yes — that's literally the guaranteed audit: read-only access, and we find at least $10K/year in savings and risks or the $1,900 audit is free. The usual wins are over-provisioned instances, gp2 volumes, missing Savings Plan coverage, and orphaned resources. Changes ship as reviewed Terraform, never console surgery.
Related technologies
Need senior AWS help without the hire?
A 15-minute call is enough to tell you exactly what we'd do and what it costs. No pitch deck, no pressure.