Cloud/DevOps
Cloud cost reduction, security posture improvement, and compliance hardening for AWS, Azure, and GCP — with measurable outcomes and no infrastructure rebuilds required.
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What it is
Cloud optimisation and security covers continuous improvement of cloud infrastructure across cost efficiency, security configuration, access controls, and compliance posture — reducing waste from over-provisioned resources while hardening against misconfiguration and threats.
What you get
Cloud bills grow faster than usage. Reserved instance discounts go unpurchased, idle resources accumulate, oversized instances run at 5% CPU, and data transfer costs compound silently. A cloud cost assessment typically identifies 25–40% in immediately actionable savings on infrastructure that has not been reviewed in the last 12 months.
Security misconfigurations are the leading cause of cloud data breaches. Public S3 buckets, overly permissive IAM roles, unencrypted data at rest, missing CloudTrail logging, security groups with 0.0.0.0/0 ingress — these are findings in almost every cloud environment we assess. We run CIS Benchmark assessments and produce a priority-ordered remediation list.
Compliance frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS) require specific cloud controls that need to be documented, tested, and continuously monitored. We implement automated compliance checks via AWS Config, Azure Policy, or GCP Security Command Center, and produce evidence packages for auditors rather than requiring manual evidence collection at audit time.
Key capabilities
Each engagement is scoped to your requirements — these are the core capabilities we bring to the table.
IAM least-privilege audit and remediation
Encryption-at-rest and in-transit configuration review
Automated compliance monitoring (AWS Config, Azure Policy)
GuardDuty, Security Hub, and Defender for Cloud setup
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 cloud evidence package preparation
Our process
A structured, engineering-led approach that moves from understanding your goals to a production system — with no handoff surprises.
Typical engagement
8–16 WEEKS
We map your goals, constraints, and existing infrastructure. Scope is defined and success criteria agreed before any development begins.
We design the technical approach, select the right tools, and produce a milestone-driven delivery plan with no ambiguity.
Iterative development with regular demos. Code reviews, test coverage, and documentation happen in parallel — not at the end.
Production release with monitoring setup and handover documentation. We stay close during the first weeks post-launch.
Built with
On infrastructure that has grown organically without regular review, savings of 25–40% are common. The biggest savings come from right-sizing overprovisioned compute, purchasing reserved instances or savings plans for stable workloads, eliminating idle resources (unattached EBS volumes, unused load balancers, stopped instances), and optimising data transfer and egress costs.
We categorise findings by risk level and reversibility. Critical findings (public data exposure, overly permissive IAM) are fixed immediately using the principle of least privilege with tested rollback procedures. Lower-risk configuration changes are batched and applied in maintenance windows with staged rollout. We do not make changes without testing their impact on dependent services first.
Screenshots or exports from cloud consoles showing current control state for each relevant SOC 2 criteria: encryption configuration, access control policies, logging status, network security group rules, backup configuration, and incident response runbooks. Automated compliance tools generate much of this continuously, reducing the manual effort at audit time to evidence review rather than evidence collection.
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