AWS deployment services — reproducible infra, lower bill
Pulumi IaC, right-sizing, Cloudfront caching. Delivered 40% cost cut at Cuez and 70% at Imohub. Monthly subscription.
Who this is for
Startup on AWS (EC2, RDS, ECS, S3, Cloudfront) whose bill is climbing and whose deploys are manual.
The pain today
- No infrastructure-as-code — every environment is a manual click-through.
- Staging does not match production, so staging bugs do not predict.
- Month-end cost surprises because nobody watches trending metrics.
- Disaster recovery is 'RDS automated snapshots and hope'.
The outcome you get
- Reproducible AWS infrastructure (Pulumi or Terraform).
- Cost reduction via right-sizing, caching, and unused-resource cleanup.
- Staging parity so staging actually predicts production.
- Disaster recovery plan with tested restore drill.
What AWS deployment services actually include
The engagement covers: infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi TypeScript by default, Terraform when the team already has it), compute decisions (ECS Fargate vs EC2 vs Lambda vs EKS), database decisions (RDS vs Aurora vs Aurora Serverless vs DynamoDB), static hosting (S3 plus Cloudfront plus Route 53), secrets management (Parameter Store or Secrets Manager), observability (CloudWatch Logs, OpenTelemetry to CloudWatch or third-party), VPC design (public plus private subnets, security groups, NAT), IAM (least-privilege roles, rotation), CI/CD (GitHub Actions plus OIDC to AWS), and cost monitoring (AWS Budgets plus tagging discipline).
Three case studies with AWS cost proof
GigEasy: AWS plus Pulumi shipped a fintech MVP in 3 weeks with reproducible infrastructure from day one (LinkedIn article: 'Building a Complete Infrastructure in Days'). Cuez: inherited AWS infra, optimized for ~40% cost reduction alongside the 10x API speedup. Imohub: rebuilt the real estate portal on AWS plus Docker, cutting infrastructure cost by ~70% versus the prior stack while serving 120k+ properties with sub-0.5 second queries. Three different AWS shapes, same discipline: measure first, right-size, cache aggressively, delete unused resources monthly.
Where the cost actually leaks
Four categories cover most AWS over-spend: oversized RDS instances (teams pick db.r5.xlarge when db.t4g.medium would serve), unused NAT gateways (expensive per-hour, often left on in dev environments), CloudWatch Logs retention at infinite (each GB stored per month adds up), and orphan snapshots, AMIs, and Elastic IPs accumulating. An AWS cost audit usually cuts the bill 20 to 40% in the first month without changing application code. Cuez's 40% and Imohub's 70% reductions started the same way.
Pricing and scope
Applications subscription at $3,499 per month flat for ongoing AWS work. Audit-only (written cost report plus reproducible-infra plan) bills against Advisory at $4,500 per month pro-rated for 1 to 3 week scope.
Recent proof
A comparable engagement, delivered and documented.
Rebuilt a real estate portal at a fraction of the cost
Rebuilt Imóveis SC's real estate portal as ImoHub — a faster, more scalable successor — handling 120k+ properties with sub-second search and drastically reduced AWS costs.
Frequently asked questions
The questions prospects ask before they book.
- Pulumi or Terraform?
- Pulumi TypeScript by default when the rest of the stack is TypeScript — one language across app and infra. Terraform when the team already has it and wants to continue. Migration between them is a separate scope.
- ECS or EKS?
- ECS Fargate for most startups (simpler, cheaper, less operational overhead). EKS only when the team is Kubernetes-fluent and the workload truly justifies it.
- Aurora or RDS?
- Aurora for production when the scaling and multi-AZ story matters. RDS for simpler workloads. Aurora Serverless v2 for spiky traffic.
- Can you migrate us off AWS?
- Yes. Common migrations: AWS to Fly.io (smaller teams), AWS to Vercel plus Supabase (Next.js apps), AWS to DigitalOcean or Hetzner (cost-focused). The audit frames the decision.
- Do you handle the security baseline?
- Yes. IAM least-privilege, VPC hardening, Security Hub, Inspector, rotation discipline, and a written security posture. The baseline is enforced — security is not a follow-up.
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