Managed Services

Critical Technics Professional

Everything in Essential, plus monitoring, patching, and incident response for your workloads.

Includes everything in Essential, plus the additions below.
Best for
Teams whose operational load is competing with their roadmap for the same engineers.

Workload Operations, Handled

Building infrastructure has an end date. Running it does not. A year after launch, most of what an environment costs is engineering attention: alerts waiting for an owner, patching waiting for a window, runbooks held in one person’s head.

Essential tells you what to fix. Professional is where we fix it. We monitor your applications, act on what fires, patch on a schedule, run the routine changes, and verify that your backups restore.

Operations Off Your Team

The point is not that the work gets done. It is that it stops competing with your roadmap.

Engineers Back on Product

Operational load stops drawing from the same people as your roadmap. The hours logged against incidents are the visible part. The larger gain is the roadmap capacity you get back from the engineers who know production best.

Fewer Incidents, Shorter Ones

Alerting tuned against real signal, escalation paths defined in advance, and post-incident review that produces a change. Repeat issues get resolved at the cause, so they stop coming back.

Recovery You Have Tested

A tested restore is the only kind that counts. We run restore drills against your real data volume and record how long recovery takes, so the number in your continuity plan is a measured one.

Continuity When People Leave

Runbooks, monitoring, and infrastructure definitions live in your repository and our documented processes, so operational knowledge stays with the organization as your team changes.

What Professional Adds

Everything in Essential, plus someone acting on it. Scope and coverage hours are agreed at onboarding and written down.

Workload Monitoring & Alerting

Continuous monitoring designed around your applications, with thresholds set against observed behavior instead of defaults. Built on CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, or the stack you already run, deployed in your accounts. Anything that fires repeatedly gets resolved at the cause or retired.

Alert Response & Remediation

Someone acts on what fires. Routine remediation handled directly, with defined escalation for anything needing a decision. Coverage hours are written into the agreement, not implied.

Patch Management

Scheduled patching within agreed maintenance windows, tested before production, with a rollback path ready. Reported so you can demonstrate currency to whoever asks.

Incident Management

Defined severity levels, named escalation paths, and response targets agreed at onboarding. Post-incident review on anything significant, with the resulting action tracked to completion.

Backup & Recovery Validation

Backup coverage verified against what matters, and restores tested on a schedule. You get a measured recovery time.

Routine Operations & Service Requests

Certificate renewals, DNS changes, scaling adjustments, access requests, backup job maintenance. A defined request lane with an agreed turnaround, so small work moves on its own schedule.

Security Event Response

GuardDuty and Security Hub findings triaged and acted on, not just surfaced. Essential reports the posture change; here we contain it, work the finding, and record the outcome.

Change Execution

Infrastructure changes run through your pipelines with review, testing, and a rollback path. Changes are logged with who approved them and why, which is what an auditor looks for.

How It Works

Onboarding

We learn your workloads, instrument what is not yet instrumented, and document runbooks first. We take the pager once we understand what we are answering.

Defined coverage

Response targets, severity definitions, and coverage hours agreed in writing at onboarding, so expectations are explicit on both sides before the first incident.

Standing review

A regular session covering incidents, patching status, spend, and what changed, with follow-up actions tracked.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are your coverage hours and response times?

Coverage windows and response targets by severity are agreed in writing at onboarding. A reasonable target depends on what your environment does and what an hour of downtime costs you, so the commitment reflects your environment and we can hold to it consistently.

Do you take over completely, or work alongside our team?

Either. Some clients hand over operations entirely. More often we own the undifferentiated work such as monitoring, patching, and first response, while their engineers keep the application layer. We agree that boundary at onboarding and write it down, so response stays fast when something does happen.

Do we have to buy Essential separately?

No. Professional includes everything in Essential. The tiers are cumulative, so you pick a level instead of assembling a bundle.

What if our environment was not built by you?

That is the normal case. Onboarding includes an assessment, and if we find work that should come first, we will tell you what it is and what closing it takes.

Can you support workloads outside AWS?

We work exclusively on AWS, which is where our depth is. If a meaningful part of your estate lives elsewhere, we will say so early and can point you toward providers who cover it well.

What counts as a service request versus a project?

Routine changes with a known shape are requests: certificate renewals, DNS updates, scaling adjustments, access changes. Anything requiring design work, a new architecture, or a multi-week effort is a project. We draw that line at onboarding and revisit it as your needs change, so both sides know what to expect before a request comes in.

Do you respond to security incidents?

Yes, within agreed coverage hours. We triage GuardDuty and Security Hub findings, contain what can be contained, and escalate the rest with context. Our security coverage runs within agreed hours. If your obligations call for staffed round-the-clock monitoring, we will say so and help you select a dedicated SOC provider to run alongside us.

What monitoring tooling do you use?

AWS-native and open source, running in your accounts: CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, and Config, or whatever you already run if it is working. Your telemetry stays in your accounts and remains yours throughout.

What if we need architecture or project work?

That is Premium, which adds a named architect and engineering capacity for migrations and modernization. Some clients run Professional and bring us in on discrete projects instead. Either works.

How does this work for regulated environments?

Operational evidence such as patching records, incident history, and change logs is collected as the work happens. It feeds directly into the control reporting Essential already maintains.

Related work

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