Someone answers when your infrastructure breaks at 3am — and most months, nothing breaks at all. Honest framing: this is a launching offering, not a 200-engineer NOC. We provide founder-reviewed runbooks, tiered support packages, and structured monitoring for HealthTech, EdTech, SaaS, and FinTech scale-ups already running on AWS. Built to ISO 27001 standards. If you are searching for an AWS management company to actually run the account rather than sell you another dashboard, this retainer is that function.
Founder-Reviewed RunbooksTiered Support PackagesOperations by tier.
Operations work scaled to your maturity. Standard tier covers monitoring, alerting, and patch management. Pro tier adds incident response and managed security ops. Enterprise tier includes 24/7 on-call coverage with documented playbooks. Many retainers begin with a cloud security audit, so we start from a known baseline rather than inheriting whatever drifted before we arrived. Australian teams can start from our AWS managed services for Australia page, which owns the Australian intent while this stays the global service. For a one-time lockdown rather than an ongoing retainer, see AWS security hardening. This retainer is the operations layer of our DevOps as a service model. WordPress sites run under this retainer as well, described on our managed WordPress on AWS page. Where we have built the foundation, this retainer is what operates and keeps aligned the AWS landing zone underneath it.
CloudWatch dashboards configured for your specific workload patterns. Custom metrics, synthetic checks, log aggregation. Alerts route to your existing channels. Not generic dashboards — instrumentation tailored to what your application actually does.
Every alert maps to a runbook. Every runbook has been founder-reviewed before activation. Pro and Enterprise tiers include first-line response with documented escalation paths. Incident post-mortems for every Sev 1.
Systems Manager Patch Manager configured for your maintenance windows. Configuration drift detection via Config rules. Compliance reporting against your selected framework. Automated remediation for common drift scenarios.
AWS Backup centralized policies. Cross-region replication for critical workloads. RTO/RPO targets defined and validated quarterly. Documented disaster recovery procedures, tested in non-production. Not theoretical — actually exercised.
GuardDuty findings reviewed and triaged. Security Hub aggregation across accounts. CloudTrail analysis for anomalous activity. Automated response for known attack patterns. Quarterly posture reports for audit cycles.
Monthly cost review against budget. Reserved Instance and Savings Plan optimization. Compute Optimizer recommendations triaged and applied. Capacity forecasting tied to business metrics. Cost is operated, not just monitored.
Different operational maturity needs different support depth. Standard tier for established workloads needing baseline monitoring. Pro tier for compliance-aware ops. Enterprise tier for 24/7 incident response with documented playbooks.
Monitoring set up against your specific workload patterns. Alerts route to your existing channels. Patch management on a defined cadence. Monthly cost review. Quarterly capacity check. Business-hours response to operational questions.
Everything in Standard, plus continuous security posture monitoring (GuardDuty/Security Hub triage), compliance evidence collection, incident response with documented runbooks, and audit prep support. ISO 27001 aligned operations.
24/7 incident response with documented escalation. Founder accessible for Sev 1 incidents. Quarterly DR exercises. SLA-backed response times. Suited for regulated FinTech and HealthTech where operational continuity is non-negotiable.
CloudOps is for established workloads that need operational discipline. Honest framing: this is a launching offering, building gradually with deliberate quality over scale. Most teams arriving here are weighing up whether to hire an AWS management company or build the operations function internally, and the honest answer depends on how much of it you want to own.
Scope depends on workload complexity, account count, and incident expectations. Every engagement starts with a free discovery call — we share full pricing before any commitment.
All tiers include AWS Cost Explorer integration, ISO 27001-aligned operational procedures, and quarterly capacity reviews. Pricing in USD or AUD on request.
SRE — Site Reliability Engineering — is the measurement-driven discipline of running systems to defined reliability goals. It is built into our CloudOps tiers, not sold separately: we put numbers on reliability and use them to decide when to ship features and when to harden stability.
We set measurable reliability targets (SLOs) for the user journeys that matter — availability and latency — so "is it healthy?" has a number, not an opinion. Defined at Pro and Enterprise tiers.
An error budget is how much unreliability you can spend before stability takes priority over new features. We track it and make the trade-off explicit, so reliability calls are data-led, not political. Governed formally at Enterprise tier.
Every alert maps to a founder-reviewed runbook, with defined severities and escalation. Pro tier runs documented procedures in extended hours; Enterprise adds genuine 24/7 first response under SLA.
After a Sev 1 we write a blameless post-mortem — what happened, why, and the fix — and feed it back into the runbooks so the same failure does not recur. Every incident makes the system a little more reliable.
The AWS-certified specialist on your discovery call leads the implementation team on your engagement. No bait-and-switch. No junior-led delivery.
Whether you shortlist us or not, these are the six things worth checking on any AWS management company before you sign. All six are answerable before a contract, and none of them require taking a sales pitch at face value.
Ask for the AWS Partner tier and check it yourself in the AWS Partner directory rather than trusting a badge image. Ask whether the engineers who will actually touch your account are certified, or only the people on the sales call. HAZERCLOUD is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and every delivery engineer is AWS-certified, stated at team level. Treat this as a floor, not a differentiator.
A 24/7 badge on a website can mean a ticket queue that gets read at 9am. Ask who is paged, what the escalation path is, and what happens if the first responder does not answer. Ask for the target response time in writing. Our honest framing is on this page already: we are not a 200-engineer NOC, and Enterprise 24/7 is built around founder availability with structured escalation.
Ask who holds the root credentials and whose name the AWS billing relationship sits in. If the vendor owns the account and resells you capacity, leaving them means migrating. The account stays yours with us, we work through access you grant and can revoke, and you keep the billing relationship with AWS. Also ask what notice applies to changing or ending the arrangement before you sign, not after.
Ask what you receive monthly and what record exists of every change made to your environment. Without a change trail you cannot answer an auditor, and you cannot tell whether last night was a quiet night or an unmonitored one. Reporting should tell you what happened, what was patched, what it cost, and what is getting worse, not just a green dashboard.
A company with standing access to your production environment becomes part of your attack surface. Ask how their own access is controlled, whether they hold a recognised information security certification, and how they handle offboarding their own staff. Treat it as one neutral checklist item rather than the headline reason to choose anyone.
Ask what changes the price. A retainer that flexes with ticket volume rewards the vendor when your environment is unstable, which is the wrong incentive. Ask whether AWS spend is billed through them with a margin or paid direct to AWS, and get full pricing before discovery rather than after. We share pricing on the first call, with no gated discovery.
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