AWS

AWS architectures we run our own production systems on

AWS is where most of our production infrastructure work happens: serverless data systems on Lambda and SQS, storage and eventing on S3 and EventBridge, and databases on RDS. We design AWS architectures that are secure by default, observable, and priced for what they actually do.

Serverless & LambdaEvent-driven systemsSecurity by default
Quick answer

AWS engineering: serverless architectures on Lambda, event-driven data systems, and secure, cost-governed infrastructure. The cloud most of our production systems run on.

AWS complexity as a self-inflicted wound

AWS offers two hundred services and no opinion about which five you need, so architectures balloon: NAT gateways for traffic that never leaves, oversized RDS instances at four percent utilization, IAM policies wide enough to be incidents in waiting. Good AWS work is mostly the discipline of restraint.

What we build with AWS

  • Serverless architectures on Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, and S3
  • Data pipeline infrastructure with throttling, retries, and idempotency built in
  • IAM and security posture reviews with least-privilege remediation
  • Cost optimization: rightsizing, storage tiering, and architecture simplification

How we work

  1. Start from the workload and pick the fewest services that carry it

  2. Event-driven where it decouples, boring and synchronous where it does not

  3. Least-privilege IAM from the first role, not the first audit

  4. Tag, budget, and alarm so cost surprises die in staging

Typical stack

AWS LambdaSQS / EventBridgeS3RDS / PostgreSQLTerraform / CDK

Frequently asked questions

For spiky or event-driven workloads, dramatically, since you pay per execution rather than per idle hour. For steady high-volume compute, provisioned capacity wins. We model your traffic shape and price both before choosing.

Yes. Security posture, cost, and architecture in one pass, delivered as a prioritized fix list rather than a hundred-page report. The Protego platform we built runs this exact serverless stack in production.

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