Service

DevOps & Infrastructure as Code

Repeatable pipelines and infrastructure defined entirely as code, so releases are predictable and recovery is fast. Everything is CloudFormation-first and version-controlled, owned by the senior architect who designed it.

Plenty of teams can deploy to AWS. Fewer can do it the same way twice. When infrastructure is built by hand in the console, it lives in one person’s memory and nowhere else. Environments drift apart. A release becomes something everyone holds their breath through. Recovery, when it is needed, turns into archaeology. The fix is not heroics. It is making the infrastructure and the release process boring, repeatable and written down as code.

Who this is for

This is for teams who want to ship to AWS quickly without the deployment being a source of stress. Often there is a trigger. Releases that have started to break more often, an environment nobody can confidently recreate, a move away from hand-built infrastructure to something version-controlled, or a team that has grown past the point where one person can hold it all in their head. It is also for teams who simply want their infrastructure to be reviewable and reproducible, the same way their application code already is.

How we work

Our default is CloudFormation. Your infrastructure lives in version control, every change is reviewed before it ships, and environments are reproduced from the same templates rather than built by hand.

Because the architect on your project has worked across the whole stack, from the Linux layer up, we automate the parts other teams leave manual. We script in Python against the AWS APIs. We wire up AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeBuild for build and test. We manage configuration and secrets through AWS Systems Manager and AWS Secrets Manager. We work alongside your developers rather than handing over a diagram and walking away.

What you get

A release process that is predictable, with fewer failed deployments and fast, low-drama recovery when something does go wrong. Infrastructure you can read, review and reproduce, instead of a console nobody wants to touch. And the person who scoped the work is the one who builds it and signs it off, so context never gets lost in a handover.

Common questions

Do we have to use CloudFormation?

CloudFormation is our default, and it is what we know deepest. AWS recognised that with a CloudFormation Service Delivery designation. But the goal is infrastructure as code, not a particular tool. If you are already invested in Terraform or something else, we work with what you have, and we will tell you honestly where it helps and where it gets in the way.

Will this disrupt our current deployments?

No. We introduce pipelines and code-defined infrastructure alongside what you run today, rather than ripping anything out. We bring existing infrastructure under code gradually, starting where it reduces the most risk, so you are never left without a way to ship.

Do you hand it over or stay involved?

Either suits us. Some teams want us to build the pipelines and infrastructure as code, then run with it themselves, with everything documented. Others want us to stay involved as they grow. Because it all lives in version control and is owned by a named architect, a handover is clean whenever you want it.

For a worked example, see how we gave Sova 70% faster deployments and dynamic QA environments.

What's included