AWS cloud development
The broadest cloud catalogue available — used selectively, because most systems need a handful of its services, not forty.
Cloud platform
Chosen per project
Maintainable handover
AWS offers more services than any competitor, which is both its strength and the source of most of its cost problems. A well-designed AWS deployment uses a small, deliberate set of services and understands the billing model behind each one.
We design for what the application actually needs, keep the architecture legible, and review spend against usage rather than letting it drift.
What we build with AWS
Web applications needing autoscaling and high availability
Migrating on-premise systems to managed infrastructure
Data pipelines and scheduled processing
Static sites and media delivered through a global CDN
Where it fits — and where it does not
Good fit when
A specific managed service removes real operational burden
Traffic is variable and autoscaling genuinely pays
Multi-region availability is a real requirement
The team can support the services chosen
Consider something else when
Small, steady workloads a single server would serve more cheaply
Teams with no cloud operations capability and no plan to build it
Architectures assembled from services nobody on the team understands
A typical production deployment
The path a user request takes through a standard AWS web application, and where the operational responsibilities sit.
Users
Requests from browsers and mobile clients.
CloudFront
Global CDN, TLS termination and caching.
Load balancer
Distribution across zones with health checks.
Application
Containers or instances in an autoscaling group.
Database
Managed RDS with automated backups and replicas.
Monitoring
CloudWatch metrics, logs, traces and alarms.
How we work with AWS
Right-sizing
Instance types and storage tiers chosen from measured usage, then reviewed once real traffic exists.
Infrastructure as code
Environments defined in code so they are reproducible and reviewable, not clicked together.
Least privilege
IAM roles scoped to exactly what each component needs, with no long-lived root credentials.
Cost visibility
Tagging and budget alerts, so an unexpected bill is caught in days rather than at month end.
Our typical AWS setup
| Concern | What we use |
|---|---|
| Compute | ECS, EKS or EC2 depending on operational preference |
| Database | RDS for relational, DynamoDB where the access pattern suits it |
| Storage | S3 with lifecycle policies moving cold data to cheaper tiers |
| Delivery | CloudFront in front of application and static assets |
| Infrastructure as code | Terraform or CDK, reviewed like application code |
| Monitoring | CloudWatch with alarms routed to a person on call |
Frequently asked questions
It can be, and usually is when instances are oversized, storage is never tiered and nothing is tagged. Designed and reviewed properly it is competitive — the cost is a function of the architecture, not the provider.
Yes. We assess what can move unchanged and what needs adjustment, run the migration with a tested rollback, and keep the old environment available until the new one has proved itself.
Not necessarily. With managed services and infrastructure defined in code, a small development team can operate it. We also provide ongoing support where you would rather not carry that responsibility.
Topics people search for
Services built with AWS
Cloud Solutions
Hosting designed around what your application actually needs, with the monitoring and backups that make it safe to rely on.
SaaS Development
Building a software product means building a business system around it too — tenancy, billing, onboarding and support tooling.
Web Application Development
Applications that run in the browser, handle real workloads and hold up when several departments depend on them at once.
Software Maintenance
Keeping working systems working — including ones built by somebody else.
Tell us what you are trying to build
Describe the problem in plain language and we will tell you what it would take to solve it — the approach, the moving parts and the sensible order to build them in. No obligation either way.