How We Work
Our approach, by engagement type
A closer look at how we handle a few common kinds of engagement — what we look for, what we typically find, and how we decide what's worth fixing.
These describe our approach to each type of engagement, illustrated by the kind of situation and findings we see repeatedly. They are not attributed to a named client.
How we approach a security review
A structured review of access, network configuration, and data handling — assessed systematically rather than by checking a few obvious things and calling it done.
- IAM
- Secrets Manager
- CloudTrail
- GuardDuty
- VPC
How we approach cost optimization
A review of AWS spend against actual usage, aimed at reducing cost without reducing capacity, redundancy, or performance.
- Cost Explorer
- EBS
- RDS
- Savings Plans
- VPC Endpoints
How we take over a platform
Taking on an existing platform where deploys are manual and knowledge of the infrastructure sits with one person, and turning it into something the team can rely on.
- Terraform
- CI/CD
- AWS
- Observability
How we review an architecture
A structured review of a system's architecture across reliability, security, cost, and operations — including an honest account of what we recommend leaving alone.
- IAM
- CloudTrail
- GuardDuty
- RDS
- CloudWatch
How we execute a remediation
Turning an assessment that has sat unactioned into a bounded piece of completed work, executed alongside the team so the knowledge stays with them.
- IAM
- Secrets Manager
- CloudTrail
- GuardDuty
- KMS
How we diagnose performance
Finding the actual constraint behind a performance problem before reaching for more infrastructure — which is often smaller, cheaper, and permanent rather than a bigger instance.
- RDS Proxy
- CloudFront
- Application caching
- Autoscaling
What's happening inside your AWS environment?
Tell us where you're struggling — rising cloud costs, infrastructure complexity, security concerns, deployment bottlenecks, or scaling challenges. We'll help you identify the most sensible next step.
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