Own your accounts, prove your controls, and know what to fix next across your AWS environment.
Every AWS environment has a layer beneath the workloads: organization structure, guardrails, IAM roles, logging, tagging. It works quietly in the background, so ownership of it tends to stay informal. That changes the moment an audit arrives, a new team needs accounts, or finance asks where the spend is going.
Essential makes that layer somebody’s job. We maintain the structure, keep guardrails current, review access, and collect control evidence.
We also read the resources running inside those accounts. Cost, right-sizing, performance, availability, resilience, security posture. You get ranked findings with the fix identified, not a dashboard to interpret. Acting on workload changes stays with your team until you add Professional.
Essential owns your AWS accounts and reports on everything running in them. Your team acts on the findings, or Professional does.
New accounts get provisioned in days, with baseline configuration applied automatically. The structure that works at three accounts still works at thirty, because we maintain it as you grow instead of letting it drift.
Guardrails block the changes you would not approve. Config rules catch the rest. Your audit trail is complete and stored where an assessor can reach it, so control questions have a policy answer and the evidence behind it.
We review your resources for cost, right-sizing, performance, availability, and resilience, then hand you a ranked list with the fix identified on each item. Cost and performance are weighed together, so the two move in step.
Everything runs in your accounts, defined in code in your repository. Your configuration lives in your repository and stays with you.
Standing responsibilities across the AWS account layer.
A new team or environment gets its own AWS account in days, with the security baseline, logging, and networking already applied. Production, non-production, security tooling, and log storage stay separated, so a mistake in one cannot reach the others.
The changes you would never approve are blocked by the platform itself, not by code review or convention. Everything else is watched for drift and reported when it moves. We revisit the rules whenever your obligations change.
Who can reach what, designed around how your teams actually work and reviewed on a schedule, so access granted for one project does not become permanent by default.
A complete record of who changed what, kept somewhere the recorded accounts cannot write to. Retention set to whatever you are obliged to keep, so the answer is there when somebody asks for it.
Your control set mapped to the environment, evidence collected continuously, and drift surfaced as it happens. Framework-specific work such as a FedRAMP baseline, a CMMC level, or a named assessment is scoped on top.
The shared network your workloads sit on: how accounts reach each other, how anything reaches your offices or data centre, and enough address space that the design still fits when you double.
Spend mapped to teams and workloads so you can see where it goes without a spreadsheet exercise. Sizing and commitment coverage reviewed on a cadence, unused resources found, and savings quantified before you act on them. We will also say whether you are large enough for AWS discount programs to be worth chasing.
Regular review of the resources in your accounts for performance, high availability, and resilience, including recurring Well-Architected assessment. We analyze your alert and ticket history for the causes behind recurring alerts, and confirm that cost changes and performance targets stay in balance. Findings are ranked by impact with the remediation identified, and tracked until they close.
A standing review covering drift, spend, and upcoming changes, run by a named team that already knows your environment.
We document the account layer as it stands today, then bring it to an agreed baseline. Everything lands as code in your repository.
Provisioning, guardrail updates, access reviews, and cost attribution run as standing work. You do not raise a ticket for them.
A regular session covering drift, spend, and what is coming, at a cadence matched to how fast your organization moves.
Common signals: account provisioning takes weeks, logging coverage across accounts is unconfirmed, IAM permissions have grown ad hoc since the last review, or attributing spend to teams takes a manual exercise. Any of those means the account layer is ready for an owner.
We analyze them. Operating them, with 24/7 cover, begins at Professional. Essential reviews every resource in your accounts for cost, performance, availability, and security, and gives you ranked findings with the fix identified. Deploying, patching, monitoring, and incident response inside your applications all start at the next tier.
No. We own the account layer outright, so guardrails, identity, logging, networking, and cost attribution are maintained by us. The insight side covers resources we do not operate, and there we hand you ranked findings with the remediation identified. We track those findings through to closure.
Included at every tier: control mapping, evidence collection, drift detection, and assessment support. Compliance on AWS is account-layer work, which is what this tier owns. Framework-specific effort is scoped on top, because it depends on the framework rather than the size of your environment.
No. We build and maintain environments. We do not assess them for certification, and for some frameworks that separation is required. We work alongside your assessor. The authorization is always yours to hold.
AWS Support answers the question you ask. It does not maintain your organization structure, review your IAM, or know why your environment is shaped the way it is. The two work together, and we escalate into AWS Support when an issue belongs there.
Scoped, auditable roles in your accounts. No shared credentials, and no more access than the service requires. Every action we take is logged in your CloudTrail, visible to you. We can work in GovCloud and under whatever personnel requirements your contracts impose.
No. Everything we deploy is AWS-native or open source, running in your accounts, defined in code in your repository.
You keep the code, the documentation, the guardrails, and the reasoning behind the structure. Everything stays exactly where it already lives, in your accounts.
Workload discovery, migration planning and sequencing, database and data movement, and cutover with validation.
Control implementation and evidence automation across FedRAMP and FedRAMP 20x, NIST, CMMC, HECVAT, FERPA, TX-RAMP, SOC 2, HIPAA, and GxP standards.
Everything in Essential plus round-the-clock workload operations: monitoring and alerting, alert response, patch management, incident handling, and recovery validation.
Multi-account AWS environments for federal, state, and local work, designed against FedRAMP, NIST, and CMMC control sets with evidence collection built in from the start.
Infrastructure as code, continuous compliance monitoring, and automated qualification evidence for regulated Life Sciences workloads on AWS.
We will assess your account structure, guardrails, identity, logging, and cost attribution, then show you what Essential would take off your plate.
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