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AWS, run by people who run AWS for a living.
Compute, data, networking, security β€” under one accountable team.

Kootechnikel is an AWS Partner Network member. We architect, deploy, and operate AWS workloads end to end β€” landing zone design, cost governance, security baselines, and 24/7 SOC monitoring all under one contract. The licenses, the IAM model, and the bill all flow through people who know your environment by name.

Three pillars Β· one team

The full platform, operated by people who do this every day.

Compute & Networking

Right-sized infrastructure, segmented by default.

  • Multi-account landing zones (AWS Control Tower / Organizations)
  • VPC design with defense-in-depth network ACLs + security groups
  • EC2 + ECS + EKS workload architecture
  • Transit Gateway / Direct Connect for hybrid connectivity
  • Right-sizing reviews + Compute Savings Plans optimization
  • Auto-scaling + load-balancing for production workloads
See our /capabilities page for the full stack β†’

Data & Analytics

From RDS to Redshift to Bedrock β€” managed, governed, observable.

  • RDS / Aurora / DynamoDB design + ongoing operations
  • S3 lifecycle + Glacier tiering for cost-effective retention
  • Glue / Athena / Redshift data pipelines
  • Bedrock for production LLM workloads (Anthropic / Mistral / Cohere)
  • CloudWatch + X-Ray observability with paging integrated to our SOC
  • Backup + cross-region replication for tier-1 datasets
See our AI page for the LLM governance angle β†’

Security & Identity

IAM by design, not bolted on. SOC-monitored from Day 1.

  • IAM Identity Center (SSO) + SCIM provisioning
  • Service Control Policies (SCPs) at organization root
  • GuardDuty + Security Hub + Config + Inspector monitored 24/7
  • AWS WAF + Shield Advanced for public workloads
  • KMS-managed encryption everywhere (S3, RDS, EBS, Secrets Manager)
  • Compliance baseline (SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA / PCI on AWS)
See /trust for our compliance posture β†’
What partnership unlocks

Six things you get from us that DIY can’t deliver.

Being a certified partner isn’t a logo on a marketing page β€” it’s an architecture. Here’s what changes for you operationally.

  • 01

    Architected, not improvised

    AWS Well-Architected Framework reviewed every 90 days. The five pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, cost) become a checklist your team is held to, not a slide deck your CTO read once.

  • 02

    Cost governance built in

    Cost Explorer + Budgets + Compute Savings Plans + Reserved Instances reviewed quarterly. Typical first-year find: 18-30% reduction from idle resources, oversized instances, and unattached EBS volumes.

  • 03

    Tier-1 escalation through partner support

    When AWS regional incidents hit your workloads, we escalate through partner channels β€” Enterprise Support cases land faster + we can co-engage AWS solutions architects when needed.

  • 04

    IAM you can defend in an audit

    No more 'AdministratorAccess' attached to everything. We design IAM around least-privilege role assumption with permission boundaries, ABAC where it makes sense, and a formal access-review cadence that meets SOC 2 evidence requirements.

  • 05

    Multi-account by default

    Production, staging, sandbox, and audit-only accounts under one AWS Organization with SCPs preventing accidental drift. Blast-radius isolation is the cheapest insurance available.

  • 06

    Cross-cloud sovereignty kept

    If you also run Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, we architect for portability: data exports tested quarterly, IaC pinned in your Git, no proprietary AWS-only patterns where an open standard exists.

Migration playbook

Three phases, one accountable engineer the whole way through.

  1. Discovery

    Week 1

    Account audit + IAM model + cost baseline + Well-Architected gap report.

    • Read-only audit of your existing AWS accounts
    • IAM Identity Center + role design assessment
    • Cost baseline (last 90 days) with optimization hit list
    • Security posture: GuardDuty findings, Config compliance, Security Hub score
    • Well-Architected Framework review across all five pillars
  2. Stabilization

    Weeks 2-6

    Multi-account landing zone, baseline policies, monitoring wired in.

    • AWS Control Tower or Organizations landing zone deployment
    • SCPs applied at root + OU level for guardrails
    • GuardDuty + Security Hub + Config enabled organization-wide
    • CloudWatch + alerting wired to our 24/7 SOC
    • IaC adoption (Terraform / CDK) for everything from this point forward
  3. Optimization

    Quarterly cadence

    Cost rightsizing, security tuning, Well-Architected re-reviews.

    • Quarterly cost rightsizing review (target: 15-25% saving annualized)
    • Reserved Instance + Savings Plan portfolio rebalancing
    • Security finding remediation against Security Hub baseline
    • Quarterly Well-Architected Framework review on each workload
    • vCIO quarterly strategy review (see /vciio-sample for the artifact)
FAQ

The questions buyers always ask us.

We're already on AWS β€” why bring you in?

Most teams running AWS in production have technical debt that compounds quietly: IAM roles with too-broad permissions, untagged resources nobody can audit, unused Reserved Instances, no Well-Architected reviews. We come in with a 90-day audit + remediation plan that gets you to a defensible baseline. After that we operate it for you on quarterly cadence.

What about AWS Bedrock and the AI workloads?

Bedrock is one of the cleanest paths to production LLM workloads we recommend β€” especially for clients who want Claude or Mistral inside their VPC perimeter. We wire Bedrock with KMS-encrypted data flows, CloudWatch logging, and IAM-enforced model access. See /ai for the full AI governance breakdown.

Can you co-exist with our existing AWS-certified team?

Yes. The named-engineer model on our side pairs with whatever certifications your internal team holds. We typically take ownership of platform + security + cost + compliance, and let your team build the application layer on top.

How do you handle multi-cloud (we also run Azure / GCP)?

We're a Microsoft CSP and AWS Partner Network member, so we operate both natively. For multi-cloud workloads we use vendor-neutral abstractions (Terraform, OpenTelemetry, Vault for secrets) and pin the cloud-specific bits to clear interfaces. Sovereignty over portability is built into the architecture.

How fast can you start?

Discovery audit kicks off the week you sign. Landing zone + baseline rollout typically lands by week 6. The free 90-minute IT health check at /contact produces the scoping document that drives the timeline.

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Run AWS like an architect, not a dashboard.

Our free 90-minute IT health check audits your existing AWS accounts, finds the typical 18-30% cost-rightsizing wins, and scores your security posture against the Well-Architected Framework. Yours to keep either way.

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