Cloud Platform Development

Build With a Platform and Integration Company Your Business Actually Needs

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud development services that go beyond hosting. Redefine, a platform and integration company, designs, builds, and deploys cloud-native applications, DevOps pipelines, and scalable platform architectures tied to specific business outcomes.

85+ platform projects shipped. Every engagement scoped before work starts.

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The Platform Decision Problem

Wrong Platform Choice Costs You Years, Not Months

Most teams pick a cloud provider based on who their last hire knew, not based on their architecture requirements. The result is years of workarounds, re-architecture projects, and infrastructure debt.

Infrastructure Drift

Your AWS environment was provisioned manually. No IaC, no reproducibility. Every new environment is a guessing game and a potential outage.

No CI/CD Pipeline

Deployments happen manually via SSH or a build script someone wrote in 2021. Every release is a 3-hour event that risks rolling back the wrong version.

Cost Without Visibility

Your cloud bill climbs every month. No tagging strategy, no reserved capacity, no rightsizing. You're paying for idle compute at peak rates around the clock.

Wrong Architecture for Your Load

You built a monolith when you needed microservices, or containerized a simple app that should be serverless. Scaling costs 10x what it should.

Security Gaps Nobody Owns

IAM roles with wildcard permissions, open security groups, no WAF, no secrets manager. Your platform is one misconfiguration away from a breach.

Vendor Lock-in Regret

You chose the wrong cloud provider for your use case three years ago. Now migrating would take 18 months and $400K. You're stuck maintaining a platform that fights your product.

Platform Engineering Services

What You Get When You Build with Redefine

Every platform engagement covers the full stack: application architecture, infrastructure provisioning, DevOps automation, observability, and security posture. Not just the parts a typical contractor touches.

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CI/CD and DevOps

Automated Pipelines That Ship Without Drama

GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, or Cloud Build. Every pipeline includes automated testing, linting, security scanning, and zero-downtime deployment strategies. Your team merges a PR and goes home.

Cloud Architecture

Infrastructure That Scales With Your Business

IaC-first using Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK. VPC design, subnet architecture, load balancing, auto-scaling groups, and database cluster configuration built for your specific traffic patterns.

35%avg cost reduction

within 60 days of engagement start

Security and Compliance

SOC 2 and HIPAA-Ready Security Posture

Least-privilege IAM policies, encrypted secrets management, WAF configuration, and audit-logging baked in from day one. Not retrofitted six months before your compliance audit.

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Observability

You See Everything Before Your Users Do

Datadog, CloudWatch, or Grafana stacks configured with meaningful alerts. P95 latency dashboards, error rate tracking, and cost anomaly detection so incidents become non-events.

Containers and Kubernetes

Kubernetes Without the Operational Overhead

EKS, AKS, and GKE cluster setup with Helm charts, horizontal pod autoscaling, and resource quotas. Managed Kubernetes that your team can actually operate, with runbooks included.

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85+

platform projects shipped

3

major cloud platforms covered

48h

to scoped architecture proposal

99.9%

uptime service level agreement on managed platforms

Platform Architecture Workflow

How Your Platform Gets Built

Click any phase to see what happens. Every engagement follows this sequence: no exceptions, no skipped steps.

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Week 1

Discovery Sprint

Architecture review, workload profiling, platform recommendation

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Week 2

IaC Foundation

Terraform modules, VPC design, IAM policies, environment scaffolding

3
Week 3-4

Pipeline Build

CI/CD pipeline, automated testing gates, staging environment

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Week 5-6

Application Deploy

Production deployment, load testing, blue-green switchover

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Ongoing

Observability and Ops

Monitoring dashboards, alerting runbooks, cost governance reports

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Click any phase above to see the deliverables, tools, and team responsibilities for that step. Each phase has a defined exit condition before the next begins.

Client Proof

A Real Platform Build. Real Numbers.

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Client

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B2B Promotional Products
What they do

Established B2B promotional products company with complex catalogs, customer-specific pricing, and approval-based purchasing workflows.

Problem

The legacy platform could not support complex B2B workflows or scale efficiently. Inventory syncing was unreliable, catalogs loaded slowly, customer approvals were manual, and system data was fragmented across the ERP, CRM, and marketing tools, creating operational bottlenecks.

Solution

Complete rebuild using Node.js and Next.js headless architecture with real-time Microsoft Dynamics inventory sync, custom approval and access control, Salesforce CRM integration, and BI tooling for performance visibility.

Result
100%

Live inventory visibility across all customer accounts

Faster performance with reliable live inventory and smoother B2B purchasing approval experience

Operational friction reduced significantly, internal teams gained confidence in system accuracy

Architecture supports scalable growth, marketing initiatives, and future system enhancements without rework

Why Redefine Over Others

How We Compare to a Typical Platform and Integration Agency

Most development agencies and staff augmentation firms treat cloud platforms as a commodity. We treat platform choice as an architecture decision with long-term cost and agility consequences.

CapabilityTypical PartnerRedefine
Platform selection process
Recommend what the team already knows
Workload profiling and total cost of ownership analysis before any code is written
Infrastructure as Code
Optional or added at extra cost
Infrastructure as Code on every engagement: Terraform, Pulumi, or CDK. Non-negotiable.
CI/CD pipeline
Basic pipeline, manual quality assurance gates
Automated testing, security scanning, blue-green deployments with 90-second rollback
Security posture
Handled separately or not at all
SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready patterns built into the architecture from Sprint 1
Cloud cost optimization
Not included in project scope
Reserved instances, auto-scaling, and tagging strategy delivered with infrastructure
Handoff and docs
Basic README, no runbooks
Architecture decision records, runbooks, incident response playbooks, and a handoff call included
Common Questions

Questions About Working With a Platform and Integration Consultant

We run a workload profiling session in Week 1 that covers your traffic patterns, data storage requirements, existing team expertise, compliance obligations, and growth trajectory. AWS tends to win for organizations with diverse service requirements and large engineering teams. Azure is the right choice for Microsoft-stack teams or companies running Dynamics 365. GCP is best for data-intensive applications with AI and ML workloads that benefit from BigQuery and Vertex AI. The recommendation is documented with a total cost of ownership model so you can challenge the reasoning.

Yes, and this is the most common engagement type. We start with a cloud architecture review that produces a prioritized list of improvements: IaC migration for manually provisioned resources, CI/CD pipeline modernization, IAM policy tightening, cost rightsizing, and observability gaps. We then execute improvements in sprints without disrupting running services. You can continue shipping features while we improve the foundation underneath.

Platform audits and remediation projects start at $12,000 for a four-week sprint. Full platform builds including IaC foundation, CI/CD pipeline, security posture, and observability stack range from $35,000 to $150,000+ depending on scope. Complex enterprise deployments with multi-account AWS organizations, EKS cluster setup, and full compliance frameworks are scoped specifically. Every engagement begins with a Discovery Sprint before any line-item pricing is agreed.

We support multi-cloud but we challenge the requirement first. Most multi-cloud architectures are the result of mergers, vendor lock-in anxiety, or organizational politics rather than genuine technical requirements. If multi-cloud is the right answer for your workload, we build abstraction layers that minimize provider-specific dependencies and design networking, identity federation, and data replication to work across providers. If single-cloud is adequate, we say so clearly rather than billing for unnecessary complexity.

Every platform build includes a structured handoff: architecture decision records, runbooks for common operational tasks, incident response playbooks, and a two-hour handoff call where your team takes ownership. For teams that want ongoing managed support, we offer SLA-based retainers covering incident response, patching, capacity management, and periodic architecture reviews. These are optional. You keep full platform ownership regardless.

Good platform discipline at the startup stage prevents the re-architecture tax at Series B. We calibrate complexity to your actual stage: a seed-stage product gets a lean Terraform setup, a simple GitHub Actions pipeline, and the security basics needed for SOC 2 readiness. We don't over-engineer. The goal is giving your founding engineers an infrastructure foundation they can grow into, not one they have to rip out at scale. A Discovery Sprint is $3,500 flat and gives you a specific architecture recommendation your team can execute with or without us.

Get Your Platform Scoped

Tell Us What Your Platform Needs to Do

Submit your brief below. We'll review your situation and send a scoped architecture proposal within 3 business days.

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Discovery Sprint
$3,500

Flat fee. One week. Platform recommendation and architecture roadmap before any build begins.

Platform recommendation with TCO model
Architecture diagram and decision records
Sprint-by-sprint build roadmap
Security and compliance gap analysis
Full Platform Build
$35K+

Scoped before work starts. Line-by-line pricing. No commitment to receive a proposal.

IaC foundation (Terraform or CDK)
CI/CD pipeline with automated testing
Security posture and compliance readiness
Observability stack + runbooks
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Ready to Build Right

Your Platform Decision Shapes the Next Five Years

Get the architecture recommendation from a platform and integration company before committing to a platform, a provider, or a build approach. Discovery Sprint in Week 1. No commitment. No pitch.

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