Scaling software company
Bringing an organically-grown AWS estate into code
An engineering team whose AWS footprint had outgrown manual operation – made reproducible, safer to change, and ready to scale.
Anonymized engagement. Outcomes are described qualitatively where measured data cannot be published.
Problem
Infrastructure had accumulated as manual changes and partial automation. Environments drifted, changes were risky, and there was no dedicated Platform or SRE ownership to bring order to it.
Approach
We codified the AWS estate in Terraform, established environment and delivery standards, and introduced safer CI/CD. The work prioritized quick wins first, then the structural changes that reduce recurring risk – so value landed early.
Architecture
- AWS infrastructure defined and versioned in Terraform
- Consistent, reproducible environments replacing manual drift
- CI/CD pipelines with validation and rollback built in
- Automated backups and documented recovery paths
Outcome
- Reproducible infrastructure defined in code rather than tribal knowledge
- Faster, safer environment changes
- Automated backups and clearer recovery posture
- A foundation the team can scale on without re-learning it each time
Stack
AWSTerraformGitLab CIDockerDatadog