AWS architecture that is secure, sensible and cost-aware
Amazon Web Services offers a very wide range of managed services for compute, storage, databases, networking and AI. It suits organisations that want flexibility, global reach and a mature ecosystem.
AWS can host almost anything, from a single application to large multi-region platforms, and its managed databases, queues and serverless tools reduce operational work. The breadth is also the risk: it is easy to over-engineer, misconfigure permissions or run up unexpected bills. We start with the simplest architecture that meets your needs, define everything as code and set budgets and alerts from day one. For small, straightforward apps, a simpler provider such as DigitalOcean may be more economical.
What we build with Amazon Web Services
- Cloud architecture and landing zones
- Migrations from on-premises or other clouds
- Serverless applications with Lambda
- Infrastructure as code
- Cost reviews and right-sizing
- Security and IAM hardening
Amazon Web Services questions
How do we avoid surprise AWS bills?
Budgets and alerts, tagging for cost visibility, right-sized resources and regular reviews. Most overspend comes from idle or oversized resources that simple checks catch.
Should we use AWS, Azure or Google Cloud?
All three are capable. The best choice usually follows your existing skills, licences and the specific managed services you need rather than any headline feature.
Whose name will our AWS account be in?
Yours. We set up the AWS account or organisation in your company's name and work through roles you grant, so you keep full control of billing, data and access.
How do you secure a new AWS account?
We lock away the root user with multi-factor authentication, use separate accounts for production and non-production, grant least-privilege IAM roles and switch on CloudTrail logging from day one.
Can you move our application from on-premise servers to AWS?
Yes. We assess each workload, decide whether to lift and shift or modernise it, migrate data with a tested cut-over plan and keep the old environment available until the new one is proven.
How do you plan for an AWS region outage?
We agree recovery time and recovery point targets with you, then use multiple availability zones, automated backups and, where the business case justifies it, a standby copy in a second region.
Can our data stay in a specific country on AWS?
Yes. You choose the region where resources run and data is stored, and we can add policies that stop resources being created in regions you have not approved.
What monitoring do you set up on AWS?
CloudWatch metrics, logs and alarms for the things that matter to users, such as errors, latency and queue backlogs, with alerts routed to the people who need to act.
Will using AWS managed services lock us in?
Some lock-in is the price of convenience. We prefer open standards such as containers, PostgreSQL and Terraform where practical, and are clear with you when a proprietary service is worth the trade-off.
Is serverless on AWS cheaper than running servers?
For spiky or low-traffic workloads it often is, because you pay per request. For steady, heavy traffic, containers or reserved capacity can work out cheaper, so we model both.
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