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Your AWS infrastructure 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.
140+
projects delivered
99.9%
uptime target
3 days
to a scoped proposal
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
Pain · ops engineer at overcrowded server room, stressed expression
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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.
$1K$50K / month
5 hrs200 hrs / month
$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%
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
Case study · development team watching zero-downtime AWS deployment complete
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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.
7 service domains identified
3 shared data patterns flagged for extraction
Migration path and cutover sequence documented
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
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.
Test suite (148 tests)2m 14s
Docker build + ECR push3m 08s
EKS rolling deploy2m 00s
Production deployed • zero
downtime
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.
See AWS development pricing details →
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 engagement 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.
Is Redefine the right fit for your AWS 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
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