AWS that matches the app — not a diagram from 2019.
We watch how you ship today, then put AWS around the app: a pipeline instead of SSH, a runtime the team can operate on a Tuesday, and tags so finance is not guessing.

Production is a pet
One box, one hero, and a deploy that is SSH plus hope.
Immutable deploys and environments you can recreate. Production is not a pet server you SSH into.
The bill is a mystery
Cost is a monthly surprise. Nobody tagged the resources. Scale meant “more instances.”
Cost tags, the right compute, and cache before more instances. The bill should not be a monthly surprise.
Tags first. Then cache. Then more instances — if the load is real.
Finance can read the bill“We use Kubernetes” and nobody can ship
A cluster that requires a priesthood. Simple apps wait weeks for a YAML change.
Kubernetes only if you have the team to run it. Otherwise ECS or a managed runtime — the one you can ship on Tuesday.
Kubernetes is a product. If you do not have the team, we will not pretend you do. The team ships on Tuesday.
Chosen on purposeThe work we actually deliver.
Account layout
Account and org layout someone can draw from memory — who has root, and who should.
Network you can explain
Networking documented, including what is private on purpose.
CI/CD developers will use
A pipeline developers will use without a ticket. Staging looks like production.
Runtime chosen on purpose
ECS, EKS, or Lambda — one, chosen on purpose, not all three by accident.
Logs and alerts
Logs, metrics, and traces on the paths that matter, with alerts a human can act on.
Cost tags
Tags so finance is not guessing. Cache and the right compute before more instances.
Land, harden, or scale.
Land
First production-grade AWS for a new product.
Account layout, a pipeline, and a runtime chosen on purpose.
Harden
It runs, but IAM, secrets, and backups would fail an honest review.
Least privilege, secrets that are not in the repo, backups you have restored once.
Scale
Traffic, queues, and failure domains are now the product problem.
Autoscaling that matches real load, and a story for when a zone dies.
No junior hand-offs after the proposal.
You see the real storefront, not a slide deck.
Launch week is the start of the engagement.
Every page leads to a real conversation.
