Build on AWS, and keep it dependable long after launch
Grootan engineers design your AWS architecture, move workloads onto it and, if you want, look after it for you once it is live.
Services
Our Cloud & AWS services
AWS Architecture and Cloud Readiness Review
We find out if your applications can move yet, or how sound your current AWS environment is, and rank what to fix by how risky it is and how much work it takes.
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Where it helps
Ready to leave the data centre
Moving off on-premises or hosted servers goes best in stages. Grootan lays out the order and runs the migration to AWS.
An AWS estate that outgrew its plan
Environments no longer match, the bill is hard to read and nobody can describe the whole setup. A review comes first, then we tidy it up.
Applications stuck in the past
Where it is worth it, we shift older applications onto managed databases, containers or serverless functions.
Containers in production
Your teams need somewhere dependable to deploy. Grootan builds that Kubernetes platform and can operate it too.
Costs nobody can account for
Spend climbs faster than traffic, and no team knows its share. We track down the waste and cut it.
Releases that still need hands
Deployments rely on manual steps and servers are configured one at a time. With pipelines and infrastructure defined as code, those steps run on their own.
Operations off your team's desk
You'd like the cloud to keep running without pulling in your engineers. Grootan takes care of support, updates and monitoring.
Not sure which of these fits? We'll work it out with you on a first call.
Process
How we work
- 01
First conversation
You tell us what runs where, what limits you are working within and where you want to get to.
- 02
Review
Whether you are planning a move or improving what you run, the outcome is a plan that says what to do first, what each item takes and where the risks are.
- 03
Deliver in stages
Nothing goes live untested, and every change has a plan for rolling it back. That holds for building, migrating and modernising alike, one step at a time.
- 04
Look after it
Grootan can stay on after go-live to operate the environment, watch over it and make it better over time.
Technologies
Technologies we work with
AWS compute and integration
- EC2
- Lambda
- Step Functions
- EventBridge
AWS storage, data and networking
- S3
- Aurora PostgreSQL
- CloudFront
- VPC
Containers and platform
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- Argo CD
- Istio
Delivery and observability
- GitLab CI/CD
- Infrastructure as code
- CloudWatch
- X-Ray
- Grafana
Practices
- AWS Well-Architected reviews
- Keycloak for single sign-on
Grootan engineers hold AWS certifications, as well as Azure, MongoDB, Anthropic and Elasticsearch.
FAQ
Questions we hear
When could we be fully on AWS?
You'll have dates once the assessment is done, set out step by step in the plan. What drives them is how many applications you run and how much they lean on each other.
Is Kubernetes the right choice for us?
If you run a handful of applications, probably not: serverless or AWS managed services will usually be easier to live with and cheaper. A large number of services shipping frequently is where Kubernetes repays the effort. We'll recommend whichever fits.
If you run our cloud, what do we get?
Day to day, your engineers no longer handle alerts, patching, incidents or support questions, because we do. Performance and spend also get reviewed with you at regular intervals, and the scope is whatever we agree.
How much will AWS itself charge us?
You'll get an estimate from the assessment. The real number depends on your workloads, since AWS bills for usage, and if we run the environment afterwards we watch that usage and resize resources to fit.
We already have AWS accounts. Can Grootan step in?
Yes. You end up with an agreed split: what we change, what we run and what stays with you. We get there by first studying your costs, your network, and the accounts and workloads you run.
Talk to us about your AWS setup
Tell us what you're working on and we'll suggest where to start.