Cloud & infrastructure

The layer everything else runs on, built so your team can run it.

Cloud architecture, environments, CI/CD, observability and cost control. Infrastructure as code in your accounts, documented for the people who will own it, and designed so a deploy is routine and a provider outage is a degraded experience rather than an incident.

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For engineering leads, CTOs and founders across the USA, UK and Europe.

What we cover

Four layers, in the order that matters.

Cloud architecture and environments

How staging, production and everything between are structured, so a deploy is routine rather than an event. AWS most often, Google Cloud and others where they fit better.

CI/CD and release engineering

Code reaching production the same way every time, with the tests, checks and rollback path that make shipping on a Friday an unremarkable decision.

Observability and reliability

Structured logs, traces across service boundaries, and alerts tied to what users actually feel rather than to CPU graphs. Knowing something broke before a customer tells you.

Cost control

Where the bill comes from and which parts of it are buying nothing. Usually over-provisioning, orphaned storage, cross-zone transfer and a forgotten environment — findable in an audit rather than a guess.

How we work

Review, fix what hurts, hand it over.

Reliability before cost, cost before elegance — and everything documented, because infrastructure only one outside party understands is a liability rather than a service.
01

Review

A read of the current setup: architecture, deploy path, failure modes, spend. You keep the review whether or not the work continues.

02

Fix in priority order

Reliability before cost, cost before elegance. We do the things that stop incidents first, because everything else is easier once the pager is quiet.

03

Hand to your team

Infrastructure as code in your repository, runbooks for the parts that need judgement, and a walkthrough. Infrastructure only we understand is a liability we refuse to create.

Who it fits

Built for teams carrying something in production.

  • Teams whose cloud bill is climbing faster than anyone can explain
  • Engineering leads who dread deploys because rollback is theoretical
  • Startups that outgrew the setup one founder built in a weekend
  • Teams inheriting infrastructure whose author has left
Technical stack

Boring, observable, and yours.

Terraform or CDK for infrastructure as code, GitHub Actions for pipelines, OpenTelemetry-based tracing, and managed services over self-hosted whenever the managed one is good enough. We optimise for what your team can maintain after we leave, not for what is interesting to build.

How we work

Nothing depends on keeping us.

Every engagement ends with the setup in your repository and your accounts, and a walkthrough for whoever maintains it. That is the standard, not an upgrade.
Yours

infrastructure as code, in your accounts

No credentials only we hold
Kept

the review is useful with or without us

Findings, not a sales document
FAQ

Things teams ask us first.

Need a clearer answer? Ask directly. We reply within 24 hours.
What does a cloud infrastructure engagement actually cover?
The layer everything else runs on: how environments are structured, how code reaches production, what happens when a dependency fails, what you can see when something breaks, and what it all costs. If what runs on it is an AI system, the AI automation and custom software pages cover the layer above.
Our AWS bill keeps climbing and nobody knows why. Can you help?
That is one of the most common reasons people call. It is usually a small number of causes — over-provisioned instances, storage nobody deleted, data transfer between zones, a forgotten environment — and finding them is an audit rather than a guess. You get the breakdown whether or not you continue with us.
Do we have to move to AWS?
No. We work across AWS, Google Cloud and smaller platforms, and we will say when your current setup is fine and the problem is elsewhere. Migrating clouds is expensive and disruptive, and it is the right answer far less often than it is proposed.
What does good observability look like?
Knowing something is broken before a customer tells you, and knowing which change caused it. In practice that is structured logs, traces across service boundaries, alerts tied to symptoms users feel rather than to CPU graphs, and dashboards someone actually opens.
Can you work with our existing DevOps team?
Usually the better arrangement. We come in for the architecture, the audit or the specific problem, work alongside your engineers, and leave the knowledge with them. Infrastructure only one outside party understands is a liability, not a service.
What happens if a provider goes down?
That is a design question, and it should be answered before it happens rather than during. We build fallback paths, timeouts and graceful degradation into systems that depend on external providers — particularly AI APIs, which fail more often than most teams plan for.
Do we own the infrastructure setup?
Yes — infrastructure as code, in your repository, in your cloud accounts. Nothing runs on credentials only we hold, and nothing requires us to keep it running.

Start with the review.

A free call and a written read on your architecture, deploy path, failure modes and spend — yours to act on either way.

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