AWS Development Services

Your AWS development company should scale your revenue — not your ops bill

Most AWS environments grow by accident. Servers are over-provisioned, deployments are manual, and the ops team spends half its time firefighting. Redefine architects AWS environments that scale automatically, deploy with zero downtime, and cost less as your platform grows.

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The Infrastructure Tax

Toggle between the two realities most teams live in

One is where most teams are. One is where the right AWS architecture takes you. Click to compare.

Compute
Fixed-size EC2 instances
Peak-capacity servers running at 30% utilization. Paying for idle capacity 24/7.
35-70% waste on idle resources
Deployments
Manual SSH deploys
Each release requires a developer logged in over SSH. One mistake causes downtime.
2-6 hours downtime per release window
Monitoring
No central observability
Logs scattered across servers. Ops team learns about outages from customer emails.
MTTD measured in hours
Security
Root credentials in .env files
Shared root access, no MFA, secrets stored in plaintext environment files.
Zero audit trail for access events

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Compute
ECS / EKS auto-scaling
Containers scale in and out with traffic. You pay for what runs, not what is provisioned.
28% average infrastructure cost reduction
Deployments
CI/CD with rolling updates
Merge a PR and the pipeline tests, builds, and deploys automatically. Zero manual steps.
Zero-downtime deployments, every release
Monitoring
CloudWatch plus alerting
Logs, metrics, and traces in one place. Alerts fire in Slack before users notice anything.
MTTD under 2 minutes
Security
IAM roles plus Secrets Manager
Least-privilege IAM for every service. Secrets in AWS Secrets Manager, never in env files.
Full CloudTrail audit trail, every action
28%
average infra cost reduction
Zero
downtime on deployments
99.9%
uptime SLA target
Calculate Your AWS Savings

What does staying on your current infrastructure cost you?

Adjust the sliders to match your current setup. The calculator models infra right-sizing savings plus ops time freed by AWS managed services.

$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
Does not include revenue impact of faster deployments and higher uptime
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. Redefine walks through your current setup and shows you exactly where the savings live.

What Redefine Builds on AWS

Every AWS engagement ships these capabilities

ECS + EKS

Container orchestration that scales with your traffic

Redefine configures ECS Fargate or Kubernetes on EKS with horizontal pod autoscaling, health checks, and rolling deployment strategies. Your containers scale up under load and scale down automatically — no manual intervention.

ECS FargateAWS EKSHPADocker
CodePipeline

CI/CD pipelines that deploy every merge automatically

From git push to production in under 8 minutes. CodePipeline or GitHub Actions triggers automated tests, builds a Docker image, pushes to ECR, and rolls it to production with zero service interruption. Rollbacks are automated on health check failure.

CodePipelineGitHub ActionsECRAuto-rollback
IAM + KMS

Zero-trust IAM and secrets management from day one

Every service gets a least-privilege IAM role. Secrets live in AWS Secrets Manager with automatic rotation, never in environment files. KMS encrypts all data at rest and in transit. CloudTrail logs every IAM action for compliance and audit readiness.

IAM rolesSecrets ManagerKMSCloudTrail
Terraform

Infrastructure as code your team can read and modify

Every resource Redefine provisions is in Terraform or AWS CDK — version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and documented. Your infrastructure changes go through the same PR process as your application code. No click-ops, no undocumented resources.

TerraformAWS CDKState filesDrift detection
CloudWatch

Centralized observability so your team finds issues first

CloudWatch dashboards, log groups, and metric alarms configured per service. Anomaly detection alerts fire in Slack before users report issues. Distributed tracing via AWS X-Ray shows exactly where latency lives in your service mesh.

CloudWatchX-Ray tracingAlarm runbooksSlack alerts
Migration

Zero-downtime migrations from any existing infrastructure

Whether you are moving from bare-metal, another cloud provider, or a single large EC2 instance, Redefine runs parallel migration paths that keep your current environment live until the new environment is proven in production.

AWS DMSParallel runCutover planRollback path
Case Study

From monolith to cloud-native AWS EKS in 15 weeks — with zero downtime

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

A B2B SaaS platform modernizing a legacy monolithic application to improve scalability, reliability, and deployment speed.

The problem

The monolithic application caused slow release cycles, frequent outages, and limited scalability. Deployments were tightly coupled and risky, making it difficult to introduce new features or scale reliably as usage grew.

Result
0
zero-downtime releases in first 30 days post-launch on AWS EKS
99.9%+ uptime achieved on production
Weeks 1-2

Architecture audit and decomposition plan

Redefine audited the monolith to identify service boundaries, data dependencies, and external integration points. Delivered a written decomposition plan with service ownership map before any code was written.

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

Each service was containerized with optimized Docker images, multi-stage builds, and non-root users. Images pushed to ECR with vulnerability scanning on every build. Local compose environment matching production topology.

Weeks 7-10

EKS cluster plus CI/CD pipelines

AWS EKS cluster provisioned via Terraform. Kubernetes deployments configured with rolling updates, readiness probes, and pod disruption budgets. GitHub Actions pipeline builds, tests, and deploys on merge to main.

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 testing on staging environment matching production traffic patterns. CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and runbooks created per service. Chaos engineering tests validated auto-recovery before cutover.

Week 15

Production cutover — zero downtime

Blue/green switch. Traffic migrated to the new EKS environment while the legacy environment stayed live for 72 hours as a rollback option. No incidents. Old environment decommissioned on schedule.

0s
downtime on cutover
99.9%
uptime post-launch
4x
faster release cycles
AWS development pricing
Scoped before Sprint 1

Line-by-line breakdown. No commitment to receive a proposal.

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.

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Reference architecture

The AWS architecture Redefine delivers on every engagement

Every component below is provisioned via Terraform, documented, and handed over with runbooks. Click any node to see what Redefine configures inside it.

CloudFront
CDN + WAF
ALB
Load Balancer
EKS / ECS
Containers
RDS + ElastiCache
Data layer
RDS + ElastiCache — Multi-AZ RDS for primary database (PostgreSQL or MySQL) with automated backups, point-in-time recovery, and read replicas for read scaling. ElastiCache (Redis) for session storage and API response caching.
S3
Storage
Lambda
Functions
IAM + KMS
Security
CloudWatch
Monitoring
Route 53
DNS
CodePipeline
CI/CD
Why Redefine for AWS Development

What separates a production-grade aws development agency from one that breaks at scale

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

Questions before hiring an AWS development company

Timeline depends on infrastructure complexity and the scope of migration or build work involved. A focused AWS setup with ECS, CI/CD, and observability typically completes in 6 to 8 weeks. A full microservices migration from a monolith, as in the case study above, runs 12 to 16 weeks. Redefine provides a specific week-by-week delivery plan in the scoped proposal before any commitment.

No. Most Redefine clients have a development team with limited AWS experience and are trying to stop managing servers manually. Redefine handles architecture, provisioning, CI/CD setup, and monitoring configuration. The handover documentation and runbooks are written for the developer on your team who will own the infrastructure after go-live, not for an AWS expert.

Redefine offers a scoped architecture review that maps your current infrastructure, identifies cost and reliability risks, models projected AWS savings, and produces a written architecture recommendation with service selection rationale. This is a two to three day scoping output, not a multi-week discovery process. You get the architecture diagram and a build brief your internal team or Redefine can execute.

Yes. Redefine scopes compliance-ready AWS environments for SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR. This includes VPC isolation, CloudTrail audit logging, KMS encryption, GuardDuty threat detection, Config rules for drift detection, and IAM policies mapped to your compliance framework. The infrastructure is provisioned and documented to support your auditor's evidence requests.

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

Should you hire AWS development help from Redefine for your project?

Good fit
Your team manages servers manually and wants to move to auto-scaling managed infrastructure
You need a complete AWS environment with IaC, CI/CD, and observability — not just a few services
You have a monolithic application that needs to be decomposed and modernized on AWS
You need compliance-ready infrastructure (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI) and want evidence documentation
You want a fixed-scope proposal before committing — no open-ended time and materials billing
Not a good fit
You need a single EC2 instance set up in an afternoon — a freelancer or AWS support will be faster
Your team wants to manage the build entirely internally and needs only occasional advice
Your project is exploratory with no defined scope or target architecture yet
Your total project budget is under $5K — that is below Redefine's minimum engagement scope
Not sure? Tell us your situation and we will be straight with you.
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