Most agencies hide their prices behind a "contact us" form. We won't. This page tells you what DevOps (the practice of automating how software is built, tested, and shipped) and AWS (Amazon's cloud platform) work actually costs — in real number bands, in plain English, with no jargon and no sales games.
What you'll walk away with.
You have probably clicked through five agency websites and found the same thing every time: no numbers, just a form. It is frustrating, and it is deliberate. Here is the honest reasoning behind it — and why we have decided to do the opposite.
Every setup really is different. A five-person startup running one small app and a healthcare platform that has to pass strict security audits need wildly different amounts of work. A single price on a website would either massively overcharge the small team or frighten off the serious one. That part is genuinely true.
But "it depends" is also a sales tactic. Hiding the number behind a form lets a salesperson size you up before quoting. In practice, that usually means the price drifts upward once they sense you can pay more. We think that is the wrong way to start a relationship built on trust.
So here is our answer. Below are the real bands we actually work within, published openly. They will not fit every situation to the penny — nothing on a website can — but they will let you budget honestly before you ever speak to us. Anything a band does not cover, we share on the first call. No form required to see the numbers.
Strip away the jargon and almost everything we do falls into one of these five buckets. You do not need to know how any of it works — that is the point of hiring us.
We build the automated pipeline that tests and ships your software every time your team makes a change — think of it as an assembly line for your app, so releases stop being scary, manual, all-hands events and become a quiet, repeatable routine. This is the core of DevOps work.
We watch your systems so you do not have to. That means catching problems before your customers do, keeping the app fast at busy times, and being on hand when something breaks — round-the-clock (24/7) if you need that level of cover. You sleep; the alarms are ours.
Shifting your app onto AWS, or off an expensive platform like Heroku, without your customers noticing a thing. We rehearse the switch, run old and new side by side, and only flip over once the numbers prove it is safe. One recent move took 9 apps off Heroku in 6 weeks with zero outages.
We go through your AWS bill line by line, find the waste — idle servers, oversized resources, forgotten leftovers — and remove it. For one UK HealthTech company this cut their cloud spend by 38%, roughly $214k a year, without slowing anything down.
We lock your systems down to the standards auditors and enterprise customers expect — including ISO 27001 (an international information-security standard) and SOC 2 (a widely recognised security and controls audit). We hold ISO 27001 ourselves, so we build to the bar we live by.
Notice that none of these are described in acronyms or server names. That is intentional. When you work with us you are buying a result — a cheaper bill, an app that stays up, a passed audit — and every price we quote is tied to one of those outcomes.
These are the real ranges we work within. Where a job has a clean, predictable shape we charge a fixed fee. Where it is genuinely bespoke, we scope it to your specific setup — and always tell you the number before you commit.
Fixed-fee audit; implementation fixed-fee or aligned to validated savings.
We charge a flat fee to review your AWS account and show you exactly where money is leaking. Fixing it is either another flat fee, or — if you prefer — tied to the savings we actually prove, so our fee only makes sense when yours drops. A UK HealthTech client saw a 38% cut, about $214k a year, from this exact work.
AWS Cost OptimizationSimple single-app migrations typically land in the $1,000–3,000 range.
Multi-app and compliance-heavy programs are scoped per workload — because a single small app and a regulated platform are not the same job. AWS MAP (the Migration Acceleration Program, AWS's co-funding scheme for migrations) co-funding may reduce your cost, subject to AWS approval. We moved 9 apps off Heroku in 6 weeks, zero outages, 60% cheaper to run.
AWS MigrationRetainers scale with account complexity and support depth.
If you want someone keeping your systems healthy, watching your costs, and on call when things break, that is a monthly retainer. There are three tiers so you only pay for the level of cover you actually need — a light touch or full round-the-clock support.
See the three tiersIf you want a rough sense of where in a band you will land before we even talk, these are the three levers that matter most.
One small app is quick and predictable. A dozen connected services, each with its own database and quirks, is more work — so it costs more. This is the single biggest driver of where you land in a band.
If you handle sensitive data — health records, payments — and need to pass audits like ISO 27001 or SOC 2, there is extra hardening, documentation, and evidence to produce. Worth every penny when a deal depends on it, but it does add to the scope.
Business-hours help is cheaper than round-the-clock (24/7) cover with someone always ready to respond at 3am. You pick the level that matches how critical uptime is to your business — and you are not locked into the highest tier.
There is no universally right answer — it depends on how much steady work you have. Here is the honest trade-off, including what a full-time hire really costs once you add everything up.
| Specialist team (us) | In-house hire | Freelancer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yearly cost | Scoped to the job — pay for the work you need, nothing standing idle. | A senior DevOps hire typically costs £65k–95k in the UK, €70k–100k in the EU, or $120k–180k+ in the US per year in salary alone — before recruitment, tooling, and on-call coverage. | Day-rate; cheap for small jobs, adds up fast if the work is ongoing. |
| Speed to start | Days. A team that has done this many times before. | Months of recruiting, interviewing, and onboarding before any work happens. | Fast to start, but only as available as one busy person. |
| Breadth of skill | A whole team's range — build, migrate, cost, security — on tap. | One person's knowledge, however good. Gaps are your problem to fill. | Usually strong in one area, thinner across the rest. |
| Risk if they leave | Low. The knowledge lives in the team and its documentation, not one head. | High. A single point of failure — one resignation or long holiday and you are exposed. | High. If they move on or go quiet, momentum stops. |
| Best when | You have a specific job, or steady work that does not yet justify a full-timer. | You have enough constant platform work to keep a full-time engineer busy. | You have a small, one-off task with a clear finish line. |
No slide deck, no obligation. The review is genuinely useful even if you never work with us — which is exactly why we offer it free.
If you are migrating onto AWS, part of the cost may be co-funded. AWS may co-fund qualifying migrations through its Migration Acceleration Program — subject to AWS approval. It is never guaranteed, and the amount is decided by AWS, not us.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner, we can check whether your move qualifies and handle the paperwork with AWS on your behalf. We only ever raise it when it is genuinely worth pursuing.
See how migrations work“It was a pleasure working with Jobin and the HAZERCLOUD team on the establishment of our new server. He was easy to communicate with, efficient and guided us along in the entire process, like I would expect a true I.T. Professional to do.”
Still unsure? Book a free 30-minute review and ask us directly — no obligation, no jargon.
Book a call →Whether you are staring at a cloud bill that looks wrong, planning a move onto AWS, or wondering whether to hire or outsource — book a free 30-minute review with our founder. You will leave with one concrete recommendation and an honest price range, whether or not you work with us.
★ AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner · ISO 27001:2022 · Founder-led on every engagement
