AWS & EKS foundations

Release safety

Reliability & SRE

Observability cost

Platform foundations

Production Readiness Review

Find the AWS production infrastructure, security, and cost issues that usually show up after launch.

A practical review of your AWS foundation, EKS or container setup, CI/CD, monitoring, security baseline, backups, rollback path, and cost risks. You get a prioritized roadmap, quick wins, and clear next steps.

Book a 30-minute readiness review

What we review

AWS account structure, IAM, MFA, networking, and access exposure
EKS, ECS, containers, node scaling, ingress, and workload ownership
CI/CD release flow, rollback path, secrets, and deployment risk
Monitoring signal, telemetry cost, alerts, backups, and incident runbooks
Where AWS spend is leaking through idle resources, oversized workloads, telemetry, and weak cost ownership

Short onboarding

Start with one 30-minute call. We review what is happening, identify what needs to be done, and turn it into one practical document. If it makes sense, NorthFront builds the fixes with your founders, technical leads, and delivery team.

What we believe

Infrastructure should not wait for a 3am page to prove it is broken.

We help teams move from reactive cloud operations to AWS platforms that are observable, automated, cost-aware, and ready for APIs, workers, Kubernetes, and data workloads in production.

We have done this 100 times. Doing it 101 will not be the problem.

New AWS foundation

Starting from scratch? No problem.

Need a new AWS environment, container platform, CI/CD pipeline, monitoring baseline, or production-ready deployment path? NorthFront can help set up the foundation cleanly, so your team does not have to reverse-engineer it later.

AWS account and environment setup
Terraform foundation for repeatable infrastructure
ECS or EKS setup where containers are part of the plan
CI/CD, monitoring, alerts, backups, rollback, and security baseline

When to bring us in

The production problems that need more than generic DevOps help

EKS or containers work, but nobody wants to own them

We review cluster operations, scaling, ingress, workload ownership, upgrade risk, and the pieces that usually break after the first successful deployment.

Deployments work, but rollback is unclear

We tighten CI/CD, environment promotion, secrets handling, approvals, deployment checks, and rollback paths so releases are not dependent on one person.

Monitoring is noisy, expensive, or still not useful

We tune dashboards, alerts, logs, metrics, SLOs, and telemetry costs so engineers get useful production signal without drowning in noise.

Terraform exists, but changes feel risky

We clean up drift, state practices, module boundaries, review workflows, and documentation so infrastructure changes become repeatable instead of fragile.

Who we are built for

Teams that have outgrown ad-hoc infrastructure

For product teams preparing for scale, stronger security expectations, or cleaner operations, NorthFront brings senior platform discipline in a flexible delivery model for the AWS work that becomes expensive when it is treated as an afterthought.

Ideal clients

Startups and SMBs running production AWS without a mature platform function
Growing SaaS and product teams preparing for scale, security reviews, or investor diligence
AI/ML teams bringing APIs, workers, models, or data pipelines into production
Teams with EKS, ECS, Terraform, CI/CD, observability, or cost problems that need ownership

How we operate

Specialist AWS platform and SRE positioning, not generic development agency work
Outcome-based scopes tied to safer releases, lower waste, clearer ownership, and faster recovery
Ottawa-based and built to support startups, SMBs, and product teams across North America
Documented decisions, operating notes, diagrams, and runbooks so your team can maintain what was built

Security readiness

This is part of our baseline We include practical security checks in AWS work from the start, so common risks are addressed before they become cleanup tasks.

Root account, MFA, IAM, and least-privilege review
Secrets management and CI/CD credential handling
CloudTrail, logging, alerts, backups, and encryption review
Public exposure checks for S3, databases, load balancers, and security groups
GuardDuty, Security Hub, AWS Config, and WAF setup where appropriate
Basic incident and rollback runbooks for common production risks

What people say

Client notes from teams that needed the work done right.

ED Event Decor Direct

“If we could go back ten years, we would have brought this help in much earlier. It would have saved a lot of pain.”

CK The Crystal Kayak Company

“Exceptionally detail-oriented delivery, clean handoff, and strong communication. The work was completed on time and made the next step easier.”

SF Scanfluence Software

“The team needed very little direction, solved complex delivery problems quickly, and kept communication clear from start to finish.”

EZ EZDZSEND

“Great to work with, responsive when details changed, and reliable through the final fixes. We would bring the team back for another project.”

Start small

Let's fix the infrastructure issues costing you time, sleep, and cloud spend.

Tell us what is painful: EKS ownership, deployment risk, observability cost, Terraform drift, security baseline, cloud spend, or the missing senior infrastructure hire.

Email us hello@northfront.tech Book a 30-minute readiness review Start a practical discussion Call NorthFront 613-663-4702

1337 Wellington St. W, Ottawa, ON K1Y 3B8

Operating from Canada for clients across North America.

Production-ready AWS infrastructure for teams without senior DevOps headcount