Your biggest deal reaches procurement, and the reply is one line: send us your SOC 2 report. You don't have one, and the deal freezes. We build the AWS infrastructure and controls that turn that request into a quick yes, SOC 2-ready from day one, with the evidence auditors look for already in place.
SOC 2 is a controls audit. We build the controls and the evidence.
SOC 2 comes in two forms, and the distinction is straightforward. A Type I report describes whether your controls are suitably designed at a single point in time, a snapshot on one date. A Type II report goes further: an independent auditor observes whether those same controls actually operated effectively across a period, typically three to twelve months. Type I proves the design; Type II proves the discipline. Most enterprise buyers eventually want Type II, so we build your AWS environment so the controls run, and log their own evidence, from the first day of that observation window rather than the last.
SOC 2 is not a product you install. It is a set of controls an auditor tests, and asks you to prove. Here is what those controls look like when they are built into AWS from the start instead of bolted on before the audit.
The slowest part of any SOC 2 audit is gathering evidence. When your infrastructure is defined as code and shipped through CI/CD, that evidence becomes a by-product of how you already work: every change is a reviewed pull request, every deploy is a pipeline run with a record, and every access grant is a version-controlled role. CloudTrail, Config, and Security Hub keep the operational trail. Nobody has to reconstruct a year of screenshots the week before the audit.
Many teams pair this with an evidence-automation platform such as Vanta or Drata, which connects to AWS and your CI/CD to collect control evidence continuously and map it to the Trust Services Criteria. We build your AWS environment so those platforms have clean, well-tagged signals to read, and so the same evidence can also serve ISO 27001 or other frameworks you take on later. The platform you choose is your call; we make the underlying infrastructure produce evidence worth automating.
There are no shortcuts around the observation window, but there is a lot of waste to remove before it starts. Honest expectations, not a sales promise.
We assess your current AWS setup against the criteria, close gaps, and stand up the controls and logging. This is where most of the effort lives, and where we spend the bulk of an engagement.
Once controls are designed and in place, your auditor can assess a Type I report, a snapshot that many buyers will accept while Type II is still in progress.
Type II requires an observation window during which the controls run and generate evidence, commonly three to twelve months depending on scope and buyer expectations. The report follows the window; there is no compressing the clock, so the aim is to start the window with controls already operating.
The buyers demanding SOC 2 are usually enterprise SaaS customers. See how we build SaaS platforms on AWS.
Shift-left security and pipeline guardrails are where SOC 2 change-management and access controls come from.
Infrastructure as code turns your environment into the reviewable, versioned evidence auditors expect.
How long does Type II really take? Who actually does the audit? SOC 2 or ISO 27001? Book a call and we'll answer these against your AWS setup.
Book a SOC 2 Readiness Call →The AWS-certified specialist on your discovery call leads the implementation team on your engagement. No bait-and-switch. No junior-led delivery.
We'll look at your current AWS setup, the criteria your buyers care about, and your timeline. You'll leave with a clearer view of what is already in place, what the audit will test, and the realistic path to a Type II report.
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