Working With Your Existing AWS Setup

Almost every product we work on already lives somewhere, and for a lot of them that somewhere is AWS. We are engineers who deploy and operate applications on it, not a cloud consultancy that will design you a landing zone. If your account has grown by console clicks and nobody can recreate it, that is a problem we can take off your plate. If you need a dedicated AWS practice, hire one.

AWS is the most powerful cloud platform and the most punishing one. Every service has thirty configuration knobs, three pricing dimensions, and dependencies on five other services. Teams that "use AWS" by clicking through the console end up with sprawling untracked resources, security groups too permissive, costs they cannot explain, and an environment that nobody can recreate.

Infrastructure-as-code is non-negotiable. Terraform (HCL) or AWS CDK (Python/TypeScript) — pick one and stick with it. Every resource declared as code. Every change reviewed in a PR. State backed by S3 with locking via DynamoDB. We have rescued AWS accounts where the previous setup was 800 manually-created resources with no documentation; the rebuild took months.

IAM is the foundational discipline. Least-privilege everything: every IAM role scoped to specific resources and actions, no wildcards, no admin policies attached to compute. SCPs for organisation-wide guardrails. AWS SSO for human access. We have audited accounts where every Lambda had AdministratorAccess and every developer had AWS root.

Cost is the silent killer. Idle NAT gateways at $32/month each. CloudWatch logs retained forever at $0.50/GB-month. S3 buckets without lifecycle policies growing forever. Untagged resources impossible to attribute. RDS instances oversized "just in case." Each is a small leak; together they double bills.

AsyncForge has senior AWS engineers deploying production infrastructure. Submit Terraform/CDK work, IAM audits, cost optimisation, migration from another cloud, or full AWS builds. Light 4 days, Standard 48 hours, Pro 1 day.