Deployment is part of finishing the software, not a separate religion. The goal is simple: someone on your side can ship a change, see if it failed, and roll it back, without a private set of SSH steps that live in one person’s head.
Who this is for
- The app works on a laptop and has never had a boring, repeatable production deploy.
- Production is one server nobody wants to touch.
- You want AWS set up in your own account: compute, database, storage, and a domain with HTTPS.
- You want a pipeline that runs tests and deploys, because manual releases keep breaking.
This is not a cloud-cost audit practice and not a 24/7 NOC. If you need that, we will say so.
What we build
- An environment that matches how the app actually runs: web process, worker, database, file storage.
- HTTPS, environment variables, and backups called out in the runbook rather than assumed.
- A pipeline (usually GitHub Actions) when there are tests worth running. If there are no tests, we will not pretend CI is a safety net; we will say what it does and does not catch.
- Logs you can open. A deploy you cannot debug is not done.
Your cloud bill stays on your account. We do not resell AWS.
Process and timeline
We look at the current deploy first. A straightforward app onto a single well-chosen server is a short engagement. Moving a messy production box into a new account, with a database cutover, is longer and is quoted only after we see it.
Kubernetes, multi-region, and custom networking are optional and explicit. They are not included to make the proposal look larger.
How fixed-price, hourly, and retainer work is on pricing. A monthly retainer is the right shape if you want someone to keep the pipeline healthy after the first setup.
What changes the price
Database migration, zero-downtime requirements, number of services, and whether workers, cron, and file storage are in scope. A static site is not priced like an app with queues.
Related services
Often sold with Laravel or API work. Maintenance covers the month-to-month after the runbook exists.