Cloud engineering
AWS environments designed so the compliance boundary is a decision you made rather than one you inherited.
AWS gives you enough flexibility to build the same workload a dozen defensible ways, and the differences between them only become apparent later: when an assessor asks which accounts are in scope, when a bill arrives that nobody can attribute, or when a role that was convenient during a migration turns out to reach production.
We treat account structure, identity, and network design as decisions with compliance and cost consequences, made deliberately at the start. For organizations handling regulated data, that includes the GovCloud question, which is cheaper to answer before a migration than to correct after one.
What we do
Multi-account design with organizational units, guardrails, and centralized logging established before workloads arrive. Account boundaries are the strongest isolation AWS offers, and they are also what determines assessment scope, so drawing them well pays back in both directions.
IAM structured so permissions are grantable without being over-broad: role design, permission boundaries, federation with your existing directory, and removal of the long-lived access keys most estates accumulate. Over-permissioned roles are the most common serious finding in an AWS environment.
VPC design, segmentation, private connectivity, and egress control. The default posture is more open than most regulated environments can justify, and retrofitting segmentation once workloads depend on the flat layout is materially harder than designing it in.
Assessment of whether AWS GovCloud is required for what you handle, and design of the environment if it is. Like GCC High on the Microsoft side, it differs from commercial regions in ways that affect cost, available services, and how you operate, and those differences are worth understanding before committing.
See also: Microsoft 365
Moving workloads in stages with rollback positions rather than a single cutover, including the decisions about what should be rehosted, what should be rebuilt, and what should be retired rather than moved at all.
Configuration baselines mapped to the control requirements that apply to you, with logging and monitoring producing the evidence an assessor will ask to see rather than generic best-practice settings.
See also: Compliance Readiness
Process
Compliance obligations first: what data you handle, what your contracts require, and whether that constrains you to particular regions or to GovCloud. This narrows the design space before money is spent.
For an existing estate, an accurate inventory of accounts, identity, network, and spend. Frequently the first complete picture an organization has of what it is running.
Account structure, identity, and network architecture with the compliance boundary drawn deliberately and cost attribution built in rather than added later.
Implementation as code where it makes sense, and migration in stages with a rollback position at each one.
Configure to the control requirements and produce the artefacts showing those configurations are in place and operating.
Deliverables
Every engagement produces documentation you can hand to an auditor, a customer, or your own board without translating it first.
Both are common starting points. The first conversation is usually about account structure, because most other decisions depend on it.