AWS Development Services

Your AWS vendor should lower your cloud bill, not grow it

Most platforms are burning 35% of their AWS budget on idle servers. Redefine builds self-scaling AWS environments that cut infrastructure costs, eliminate manual deploys, and ship zero-downtime releases on every merge.

140+
AWS projects
99.9%
uptime delivered
3 days
Proposal in 3 days
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The Infrastructure Tax

Here is what your current AWS setup costs you every sprint

Engineering teams at growing SaaS platforms and B2B apps pay a hidden tax on every release: idle servers, manual deploys, and outages they hear about from customers first. The right AWS setup eliminates all three.

Compute
Fixed-size EC2 instances
Your servers run at 30% utilization during off-peak hours. You pay full price 24 hours a day. That is 35-70 cents of every infrastructure dollar wasted.
35-70% waste on idle resources
Deployments
Manual SSH deploys
Every release needs a developer on SSH. One missed step causes a multi-hour outage. Teams ship less often because deploys are expensive.
2-6 hours downtime per release window
Monitoring
No central observability
When something breaks, your ops team hears about it from a customer email. By then, the outage is already 45 minutes old.
MTTD measured in hours
Security
Root credentials in .env files
Shared root credentials and plaintext .env files are a single breach away from a compliance failure. No audit trail means no defense.
Zero audit trail for access events

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Compute
ECS / EKS auto-scaling
Your containers scale up with demand and scale down when traffic drops. Pay only for what runs.
Save an average of 28% on infrastructure monthly
Deployments
CI/CD with rolling updates
Push to main. The pipeline handles tests, build, and deploy automatically. Zero manual steps.
Every release ships with zero downtime
Monitoring
CloudWatch plus alerting
CloudWatch and Slack alerts fire before a single user notices a problem.
Mean time to detection drops from hours to under 2 minutes
Security
IAM roles plus Secrets Manager
Every service gets its own IAM role with minimum permissions. Secrets rotate automatically via AWS Secrets Manager.
Every access event is logged in CloudTrail
28%
average cost reduction
Zero
deployment downtime
99.9%+
uptime delivered
Calculate Your AWS Savings

See exactly what your current AWS setup costs you each month

Enter your infrastructure spend and ops hours below. The calculator shows you where the money goes, what managed services recover, and what a right-sized AWS environment costs instead.

$8,000
$1K$50K / month
40 hrs
5 hrs200 hrs / month
$75/hr
$40$250 / hr
Infrastructure savings modelled at 28% from right-sizing and auto-scaling
Ops time savings modelled at 55% from managed services and CI/CD automation
Infrastructure savings shown here do not include the revenue upside of faster releases and higher uptime. Those gains are real. They just vary too much by business to model here.
Projected monthly savings
Infrastructure right-sizing$2,240
Ops time freed (55% of hrs)$1,650
Monthly savings
$3,890
Annual savings
$46,680
Total cost comparison
Current monthly cost$9,000
Projected AWS cost$5,110
Annual ROI519%
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No commitment required. In the architecture review call, Redefine maps your current setup, identifies exactly where savings live, and tells you what a scoped build would cost.

What Redefine Builds on AWS

Six capabilities that ship with every AWS engagement

ECS + EKS

Auto-scaling containers that handle traffic spikes without you

Redefine configures ECS Fargate or Kubernetes on EKS. Your containers scale up under load and scale back down when traffic drops. No manual intervention. No oversized instances running at 30% capacity.

ECS FargateAWS EKSHPADocker
CodePipeline

Git push to production in under 8 minutes

Merge a pull request and your pipeline tests, builds, and deploys automatically. CodePipeline or GitHub Actions pushes a verified Docker image to ECR and rolls it to production with zero service interruption. Failed health check? The rollback is automatic.

CodePipelineGitHub ActionsECRAuto-rollback
IAM + KMS

Security baseline built in, not bolted on after

Every service gets its own least-privilege IAM role. Secrets rotate automatically in AWS Secrets Manager and never touch environment files. KMS encrypts data at rest and in transit. CloudTrail logs every access event for SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI audit evidence.

IAM rolesSecrets ManagerKMSCloudTrail
Terraform

Infrastructure your team can read, change, and hand to an auditor

Every resource Redefine provisions is in Terraform or AWS CDK. Version-controlled. Peer-reviewed. Documented. No undocumented resources. No click-ops. Infrastructure changes go through the same PR process as application code.

TerraformAWS CDKState filesDrift detection
CloudWatch

Your team finds problems before customers do

CloudWatch dashboards and metric alarms are configured per service from day one. Anomaly detection fires in Slack before your first user notices. AWS X-Ray traces show exactly which API call is slow and why.

CloudWatchX-Ray tracingAlarm runbooksSlack alerts
Migration

Move from any infrastructure with zero downtime

Moving from bare-metal, another cloud, or a single large EC2 instance? Redefine runs a parallel migration. Your current environment stays live until the new AWS environment is proven in production. Then you cut over. The old environment stays on standby for 72 hours.

AWS DMSParallel runCutover planRollback path
Case Study

A B2B SaaS platform went from monolith to AWS EKS in 15 weeks. Zero downtime.

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SaaS platform • B2B
Client
SaaS / B2B Platform (Enterprise)

A B2B SaaS company with 50-plus enterprise clients. The team managed a legacy monolith that blocked every new feature and caused release-day fear across the engineering team.

The problem

Every deployment was a risk event. Releases were coupled across services. One bad deploy could take down the entire platform. The team shipped every 3-4 weeks out of caution, and customer-reported outages were a regular occurrence.

Result
0
zero-downtime releases in the first 30 days on AWS EKS
99.9%+ uptime maintained in production
4x faster release cycles from week 15 onward
Weeks 1-2

Architecture audit and decomposition plan

Redefine read the monolith before writing a line of code. The team identified 7 service domains, flagged 3 shared data patterns that needed extraction first, and mapped the full migration sequence. The client received a written decomposition plan before Redefine touched the codebase.

audit-deliverable.md
7 service domains identified
3 shared data patterns flagged for extraction
Migration path and cutover sequence documented
Dockerfile
FROM node:20-alpine AS builder
WORKDIR /app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm ci --only=production
FROM node:20-alpine AS runtime
USER node
# ECR scan: 0 vulnerabilities
Weeks 3-6

Containerization with Docker

Every service got its own Docker image with multi-stage builds, non-root users, and ECR vulnerability scanning on each push. The local development environment matched production topology exactly so bugs found in development stayed in development.

Weeks 7-10

EKS cluster plus CI/CD pipelines

The EKS cluster came up via Terraform. Kubernetes manifests included rolling updates, readiness probes, and pod disruption budgets. The GitHub Actions pipeline built, tested, and deployed on every merge to main from day one.

pipeline.yml • 7m 22s
Test suite (148 tests)2m 14s
Docker build + ECR push3m 08s
EKS rolling deploy2m 00s
Production deployed • zero downtime
CloudWatch dashboard
API p99 latency88ms • target: <200ms
Error rate0.002% • target: <0.1%
Pod restarts / hr0 • nominal
CPU utilization42% • auto-scaling ready
Weeks 11-14

Production testing and observability setup

Load tests simulated production traffic at 3x peak volume. CloudWatch alarms and runbooks covered every service. Failure injection tests confirmed the cluster recovered automatically before the team scheduled the cutover date.

Week 15

Production cutover — zero downtime

Blue/green switch. Traffic moved to the new EKS environment in minutes. The legacy environment stayed live for 72 hours as a rollback option. No incidents. The old environment was decommissioned on schedule. The team shipped their first feature on the new platform 6 days after cutover.

0s
downtime on cutover
99.9%
uptime post-launch
4x
faster release cycles
AWS development pricing
Fixed price. Scoped before we start.

You receive a line-by-line breakdown with the ROI projection from the calculator above before committing to anything.

Scope drivers
Number of services and current infrastructure size
Compliance requirements (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR)
Migration complexity and current environment

Every proposal includes the ROI calculation from the calculator above, showing the payback period before you commit.

See what a scoped proposal includes →
Reference architecture

The AWS stack Redefine provisions on every engagement

This is not a stock diagram. Every component shown here is provisioned via Terraform, documented, and handed over with runbooks on delivery day. Click any node to see exactly what Redefine configures inside it.

CloudFront
CDN + WAF
ALB
Load Balancer
EKS / ECS
Containers
RDS + ElastiCache
Data layer
RDS + ElastiCache — Multi-AZ RDS gives your database a hot standby in a second availability zone. If the primary goes down, failover is automatic and takes under 60 seconds. ElastiCache (Redis) stores session data and API responses in memory so your database handles reads, not repetitive queries.
S3
Storage
Lambda
Functions
IAM + KMS
Security
CloudWatch
Monitoring
Route 53
DNS
CodePipeline
CI/CD
Why Redefine for AWS Development

What matters at scale — and how Redefine handles it differently

What matters at scale
Typical AWS partner
Redefine
Infrastructure as code
All resources version-controlled via Terraform or CDK
Click-ops optional
Terraform mandatory
Documentation on handover
Architecture diagrams, runbooks, decision log
Rarely included
Ships on handover day
Zero-downtime deployment strategy
Rolling updates with automated rollback on failure
Extra scope
Default for all builds
Security baseline (IAM, KMS, VPC)
Least-privilege access from day one
Often post-scoped
Included in scope
Cost model and projected savings
ROI calculation before you commit
Not provided
Before you sign
Scope clarity before commitment
Fixed-price proposal with line items
Time and materials
Fixed in 3 days

Common questions when evaluating an AWS development company

A focused AWS build with ECS, CI/CD, and observability typically runs 6 to 8 weeks. A full microservices migration from a monolith runs 12 to 16 weeks, similar to the case study on this page. Redefine delivers a week-by-week delivery plan in the proposal. You see exactly what ships in which sprint before committing.

No. Most Redefine clients have a development team that wants to stop managing servers manually. Redefine handles architecture, provisioning, CI/CD, and monitoring. The handover docs and runbooks are written for the developer on your team who will own the infrastructure post-launch. No AWS certification required.

Redefine runs a 2 to 3 day architecture review. That is not a multi-week discovery process. It maps your current setup, flags cost and reliability risks, models your AWS savings, and delivers a written architecture recommendation with service rationale. You receive the diagram and a build brief you can hand to Redefine or execute internally.

Yes. Redefine builds SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR-ready AWS environments. That includes VPC isolation, CloudTrail audit logging, KMS encryption, GuardDuty threat detection, Config drift detection, and IAM policies mapped to your compliance controls. Every environment ships with documentation your auditor can use for evidence requests.

Yes. The handover package includes architecture diagrams, Terraform state and modules, deployment runbooks, CloudWatch alarm playbooks, and a decision log for every service selection. A developer who was not on the build can read the docs and manage the environment within a few hours. Redefine also provides a post-handover support window for your team's first few deployments.

Get Your Proposal

Your AWS architecture proposal is 3 days away

Tell us your current infrastructure setup, what is breaking, or what you are planning to build on AWS. Redefine sends back a full architecture recommendation and fixed pricing within three business days. No commitment required to get the proposal.

You get a call within 48 hours of submitting
Full architecture recommendation and pricing in 3 days
Work begins within 1 week of your sign-off
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140+
projects
99.9%
uptime delivered
No Commitment. No Pitch.

If the proposal does not pencil out, you walk away. No cost.

Most teams that submit a brief get back a scoped proposal with architecture diagrams, service rationale, sprint timeline, and fixed pricing within three business days. The ROI projection from the calculator on this page comes with it. You review it, run it by your team, and decide. Redefine does not follow up with pressure.

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Brief submitted → call in 48 hours → proposal in 3 days → work begins in 1 week

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