GSoft Consulting
Cloud & DevOps

Ship fast.
Stay up.

Scalable AWS infrastructure and fully automated delivery pipelines. We set up the cloud foundation so your team deploys with confidence — and your product stays up even when things go wrong.

99.9%+
Uptime target on every project
< 5 min
Typical deploy-to-live time
0
Secrets in code or environment variables
100%
Infrastructure as Code — no ClickOps

The problem

Most early-stage products are deployed manually, with ClickOps AWS configs that nobody fully understands, secrets in environment variables, and a deployment process that only works on the original developer's laptop.

Our approach

Every infrastructure resource is written as Terraform. Every deployment is automated via GitHub Actions. Every secret is in Secrets Manager. The whole system is documented, version-controlled, and reproducible.

The result

Your team can deploy 10 times a day with confidence. New engineers can spin up a local environment in 20 minutes. And when something goes wrong at 3am, the runbook tells you exactly what to do.

What's Included

A production-grade
cloud foundation.

Everything your product needs to run reliably, scale automatically, and deploy without drama.

AWS architecture design

ECS, RDS, S3, CloudFront, VPC

CI/CD pipeline

GitHub Actions, zero-downtime deploys

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform modules, state management

Security hardening

IAM least-privilege, WAF, encryption

Monitoring & alerting

CloudWatch, Datadog, PagerDuty

Secrets management

AWS Secrets Manager, Parameter Store

Container orchestration

ECS Fargate or EKS (Kubernetes)

Auto-scaling & cost control

Right-sizing, Reserved/Spot instances

3 months post-launch support

Incident response, runbooks, guidance

Our Process

Production-ready
in 6 weeks.

From architecture diagram to fully automated, monitored, and documented cloud infrastructure — in a single engagement.

01Week 1

Architecture Design

We review your current infrastructure (or start from scratch), map your scale requirements and compliance constraints, and produce an AWS architecture diagram with cost estimates before writing a single line of Terraform.

Deliverables

  • AWS architecture diagram
  • Cost estimate (monthly)
  • Security threat model
  • Migration/greenfield plan
02Week 2

Foundation & Networking

We lay the foundation: VPC with public/private subnets, IAM roles with least-privilege, secrets management, and the base Terraform modules that all future infrastructure will build on.

Deliverables

  • VPC + subnet design
  • IAM roles & policies
  • Secrets Manager setup
  • Terraform state backend (S3 + DynamoDB)
03Week 2–4

CI/CD Pipeline

GitHub Actions workflows for every environment — dev, staging, production. Automated testing gates, Docker build caching, ECR push, and zero-downtime ECS deployments with automated rollback.

Deliverables

  • GitHub Actions workflows
  • Docker build pipeline
  • Environment promotion flow
  • Automated rollback on failure
04Week 3–5

Application Infrastructure

ECS Fargate services, RDS with read replicas and automated backups, Redis cluster, S3 + CloudFront CDN, and load balancer with SSL termination — all provisioned as Terraform modules.

Deliverables

  • ECS Fargate service (or EKS)
  • RDS PostgreSQL + replicas
  • ElastiCache Redis cluster
  • CloudFront CDN + S3
05Week 5–6

Monitoring & Handover

CloudWatch dashboards, application-level metrics, alerting rules, and a comprehensive runbook documenting every service, its dependencies, and how to respond to the most common failure modes.

Deliverables

  • CloudWatch dashboards
  • Alerting rules (PagerDuty / Slack)
  • Incident runbook
  • Team handover call
Tech Stack

AWS-native,
Terraform-first.

We use managed AWS services wherever possible to reduce operational overhead, and we infrastructure-as-code everything from day one.

Cloud
AWS (primary)GCP (secondary)Azure (on request)
Compute
ECS FargateEKS (Kubernetes)LambdaEC2 Auto Scaling
IaC
TerraformTerragruntAWS CDKPulumi
CI/CD
GitHub ActionsDockerECRArgoCD (GitOps)
Monitoring
CloudWatchDatadogGrafanaSentryPagerDuty
Specialisations

Five ways we
work together.

01

Scale confidently. Pay only for what you use.

AWS Cloud Services

We design and build cost-efficient, highly available AWS architectures — starting from your actual scale requirements, not a template. Every architecture decision is documented and justified.

  • VPC design, subnets, security groups, NAT
  • ECS Fargate or EKS for container workloads
  • RDS PostgreSQL with automated backups
  • CloudFront CDN for global asset delivery
  • Cost optimisation — Reserved and Spot instances
02

Ship 10x per day without breaking things.

DevOps & CI/CD

Fully automated delivery pipelines that test, build, and deploy on every commit to main. Zero-downtime blue-green deployments, automated rollback, and preview environments for every PR.

  • GitHub Actions — build, test, deploy in one pipeline
  • Zero-downtime ECS rolling deploys
  • Automated rollback on health check failure
  • Preview environments per pull request
  • Deployment notifications and audit trail
03

Your infrastructure, version-controlled.

Infrastructure as Code

All infrastructure is written in Terraform — reproducible, reviewable, and deployable to any environment. No more ClickOps, no more 'works on staging but not prod'. Everything is code, everything is tested.

  • Terraform modules for all AWS services
  • Terragrunt for DRY multi-environment config
  • Remote state with S3 + DynamoDB locking
  • Terraform plan in CI — review before apply
  • Drift detection and automated compliance checks
04

Reduce your cloud bill by 30–50%.

Cloud Cost Optimisation

We audit your AWS or GCP environment and implement rightsizing, savings plans, auto-scaling, and budget alerting — cutting waste without touching uptime.

  • Full AWS/GCP cost audit (EC2, RDS, S3, GCS)
  • Rightsizing recommendations applied via Terraform
  • Reserved Instances & Savings Plans strategy
  • Auto-scaling policies for variable workloads
  • Budget alerts via CloudWatch / GCP Billing
  • Monthly cost reporting dashboard
05

Move to AWS or GCP — with zero downtime.

Cloud Migration

Whether you're migrating from on-prem, legacy VMs, or switching cloud providers, we plan and execute the full migration — infrastructure, data, DNS, and security.

  • Migration assessment & risk mapping
  • AWS or GCP target architecture (Terraform)
  • Database migration (RDS, Cloud SQL, BigQuery)
  • Container workload migration (ECS/EKS or GKE)
  • DNS cutover with zero-downtime strategy
  • Post-migration monitoring & 90-day support
Who It's For

For teams who need
infrastructure they trust.

Early-Stage Startups

You're deploying to a single EC2 instance and copying files over SSH. You need a proper cloud foundation before you launch publicly — without spending months setting it up.

  • No dedicated DevOps engineer
  • Manual deploys and ad-hoc AWS setup
  • Preparing for first public users or investors

Growing Products

Your product is live and growing but your infrastructure is a patchwork. Deploys are stressful, the production environment is undocumented, and you're worried about the next outage.

  • Irregular or manual deployment process
  • No monitoring or alerting in place
  • Infrastructure only one person understands

Enterprise Migrations

You're moving from on-premise or a legacy cloud setup to a modern AWS architecture. You need a reliable partner to plan and execute the migration with zero downtime.

  • Moving from on-premise or legacy VMs
  • Compliance requirements (SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR)
  • Complex network topology with multiple VPCs
FAQ

Common
questions.

Can't find what you're looking for?

Ask us directly
Which cloud providers do you work with?
AWS is our primary platform — the majority of our projects run on AWS. We also have experience with GCP and Azure if your organisation has existing commitments there. For new projects without a prior preference, we recommend AWS because of its breadth of managed services, maturity of tooling, and our depth of expertise.
What's the difference between ECS Fargate and Kubernetes?
ECS Fargate is serverless containers — you define a container task, set resource limits, and AWS runs it. No cluster nodes to manage. It's our default for most applications because it's simpler to operate and AWS handles the underlying infrastructure. Kubernetes (EKS) is appropriate for larger teams with complex multi-service deployments, existing Kubernetes experience, or specific requirements like custom scheduling. We'll recommend the right option for your scale and team.
How do you handle secrets like database passwords and API keys?
We use AWS Secrets Manager for secrets that need rotation (database credentials, API keys) and Parameter Store (SSM) for configuration values. Secrets are never stored in environment variables directly — they're injected at runtime via IAM task roles. The Terraform code never contains actual secret values, only references to secret ARNs.
Can you take over and improve our existing AWS infrastructure?
Yes — and we start with an audit. We review your current architecture, IAM policies, cost breakdown, security posture, and deployment process. We produce a prioritised improvement roadmap and then work through it iteratively. We won't recommend a big-bang migration unless the existing infrastructure is genuinely unsalvageable.
How do you ensure zero downtime during deployments?
We use ECS rolling updates with health check gates — new containers must pass health checks before old ones are terminated. Load balancer target group draining ensures in-flight requests complete gracefully. For database migrations, we use expand-contract patterns so migrations are always backward-compatible with the running application version. Automated rollback triggers if health checks fail within a configurable window.
What does the handover look like?
You get: a complete Terraform codebase (in your GitHub org from day one), CloudWatch dashboards with all critical metrics, an incident runbook documenting every service and common failure modes, IAM access for your team, and a 2-hour recorded walkthrough. We stay available for 90 days post-handover to answer questions and respond to incidents.
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Let's build your
cloud foundation.

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