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AWS Security Reviews

A senior, AWS-certified architect reviews your infrastructure and hardens it against real threats, then keeps it that way. We turn security from an impediment into an advantage, using battle-tested practices and AWS-native controls.

Most AWS environments do not have a security problem you can point to. They have drift. Permissions that made sense two years ago and were never tightened, logging that covers some accounts but not others, an old access key still active in a service nobody owns anymore. None of it shows up as an incident until it does, and by then the question is not “what is wrong” but “what else have we not found yet”. A security review answers that deliberately: we go through your environment against your actual risk, not a generic checklist, and tell you what matters first.

Who this is for

This is for teams running real workloads on AWS who need to know where they stand. Often there is a trigger. An incident or a near miss, rapid growth that has left the environment more complicated than anyone fully understands, a launch ahead that everything depends on, or a customer security question you want to answer with evidence rather than hope. It is also for teams who have inherited an AWS account they did not build and want a clear, prioritised picture before they rely on it further.

How we work

We start with read-only access to your environment, so the review never puts production at risk. From there a senior, AWS-certified architect works through the areas that actually carry risk: who can do what through AWS Identity and Access Management, how your network is exposed, how data is stored and encrypted, and whether you would even know if something went wrong - logging through AWS CloudTrail, threat detection through Amazon GuardDuty, and posture through AWS Security Hub and AWS Config.

You get back a prioritised set of findings, not a wall of them. Because the architect reviewing your environment has built and operated production systems on AWS, the recommendations are practical and ordered by what reduces real risk soonest, with the reasoning made plain. We then fix the issues alongside your team or hand over clear steps for you to action, whichever suits how you work.

What you get

A hardened baseline, configured to your risk rather than a template: tight access through IAM, compliant key handling through AWS Key Management Service, and the AWS detection and posture services set up so they tell you something useful instead of adding noise. Once that baseline is in place, drift away from it raises alerts, and regular reviews keep your defences current as your environment and the threats against it change. Security stops being a one-off project and becomes something you can show the state of at any time.

Common questions

Do you need access to our AWS account?

Yes, but read-only to begin with. A review is done through a role with read access, so we can see how the environment is configured without being able to change anything. If we go on to fix issues, we agree the access that the work needs specifically, scoped to the task and no wider. Access stays under your control throughout: when a one-off engagement ends it is revoked entirely, and if we stay on for ongoing hardening or monitoring we keep only the level that the work calls for.

How long does a security review take?

It depends on the size and complexity of your environment. A focused check of a single workload is usually a week or two. A complete multi-account review takes longer. We scope it with you up front so you know the shape of it before we start, rather than discovering it as we go.

Do you just hand over a report, or help us fix things?

Both are on offer. Some clients want the prioritised findings and prefer their own team to act on them. Others want us to do the hardening with them. We are happy either way, and the findings are written to be useful whichever route you take.

For what this looks like in practice, read the anonymised summary of a recent security engagement (PDF): fifteen findings, six critical, and the critical exposures closed the same day. The same rigour runs through our case studies.

What's included