AWS Consulting Services for UK SaaS and Regulated Teams
AWS consulting is the work of architecting, migrating, securing, and cost-optimising your applications on Amazon Web Services. MicroPyramid is a 12-year-old AWS team that does all of it in one engagement for UK startups, SaaS, and regulated teams.
What AWS Consulting Actually Involves for a UK Team
AWS consulting covers the full life of a workload on Amazon Web Services: designing the architecture, migrating or building on it, securing it, controlling its cost, and operating it once it is live. Good consulting is anchored to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its five pillars (operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation) so decisions are made against a shared standard rather than one engineer's habit. A typical engagement runs architect → migrate or build → secure → optimise → operate, and the value is in owning that whole arc, not handing over a diagram.
For a UK team the constraints are specific. Enterprise buyers increasingly ask where data is stored before they sign, and the answer needs to be concrete: we deploy to eu-west-2 (London) so workloads and data stay UK-resident, with eu-west-1 (Ireland) used only where a service or disaster-recovery requirement calls for it. Security and compliance are a shared responsibility. AWS secures the platform, but IAM, encryption, logging, and account structure are yours to get right, and they are exactly what an auditor will examine.
Why UK Teams Choose Us for AWS
Three reasons UK founders and engineering leads pick MicroPyramid over a local consultancy or a generic offshore team
Security & UK Data Residency
Account structure, encryption, and storage decisions are made with compliance in mind, with AWS eu-west-2 (London) available for UK data residency and eu-west-1 (Ireland) where relevant.
AWS Costs Managed in GBP
We frame AWS spend in GBP and invoice in GBP, collected via Stripe or GoCardless Direct Debit. Cost reporting maps to budgets your finance team recognises, no currency-conversion guesswork on your cloud bill.
Accountable Ownership, Not a Ticket Mill
Our engineers directly own every engagement. You will not be passed to a delivery layer of junior developers. The engineer who runs your review is the one architecting and running your AWS estate.
AWS Consulting Services for UK Teams
Five services covering the full AWS lifecycle, from Well-Architected reviews and migration to cost optimisation, security, and infrastructure as code
Cloud Architecture & Well-Architected Reviews
We design AWS architectures against the Well-Architected Framework (reliability, security, performance, cost, and operational excellence) for UK SaaS and regulated workloads. Built around eu-west-2 (London) where data residency matters.
- Reference architecture and account structure
- Well-Architected review and remediation
- Multi-AZ and high-availability design
Cloud Migration & Modernisation
Move existing workloads onto AWS without disrupting paying UK customers. We use phased, low-risk migration patterns (replatform, refactor, or lift-and-shift) with rollback plans and near-zero-downtime cutover where feasible.
- Migration assessment and roadmap
- Phased, low-downtime cutover
- Containerisation and managed-service moves
AWS Cost Optimisation in GBP
Bring AWS spend under control and frame it in GBP terms your finance team understands. We right-size, schedule, and commit (Savings Plans, Reserved Instances) so your monthly bill maps to predictable budgets.
- Right-sizing and idle-resource cleanup
- Savings Plans and Reserved Instance strategy
- Cost allocation tagging and GBP reporting
Cloud Security & UK Compliance
A security posture your auditors and enterprise buyers can review. IAM least-privilege, encryption, logging, and guardrails for regulated UK SaaS and enterprise environments.
- IAM, KMS encryption, and least-privilege
- GuardDuty, Security Hub, and audit logging
- Data residency in eu-west-2 (London)
DevOps, CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code
Repeatable, auditable infrastructure using Terraform and AWS-native tooling, with CI/CD pipelines that ship safely. We give UK teams the automation to deploy faster without sacrificing control.
- Terraform / CloudFormation IaC
- CI/CD pipelines and automated rollouts
- Environment parity and secrets management
Best Fit For
- UK SaaS and regulated teams running production workloads on AWS
- startups and SMBs that want a secure, cost-aware AWS foundation from the start
- migrations and modernisations where eu-west-2 data residency matters from day one
- teams that want one partner to own architecture and operations, not just advice
Not the Right Fit When
- one-off questions answerable by AWS documentation or a short support call
- engagements looking only for hands without architecture or delivery ownership
- workloads committed to another cloud with no intention of using AWS
- cost reviews where there is no willingness to act on the recommendations
Planning a full move to AWS? See cloud migration services. Need product engineering on top of the cloud? See Product Engineering for UK Teams.
How to Get Started as a UK Team
We recommend starting with a Well-Architected Review: understand the estate and the priorities before committing to a larger programme. All engagements billed in GBP.
Well-Architected Review
A structured assessment of your AWS estate against the five pillars, with a prioritised remediation plan. Priced in GBP, delivered with async updates.
- Five-pillar review
- Security and cost findings
- Prioritised remediation roadmap
- eu-west-2 residency guidance
Migration Sprint
Move a defined workload onto AWS with infrastructure as code and a low-downtime cutover plan, a production-ready landing, not a proof of concept.
- Migration assessment
- IaC and pipeline setup
- Low-downtime cutover
Managed AWS Retainer
Ongoing AWS operations, cost optimisation, and security upkeep from the same engineers who know your estate.
- Monitoring and patching
- Monthly cost and posture review
- Retainer or time-and-material
Platforms We Build and Run on AWS
Production platforms we built and operate on AWS. Each links to the full case study.
RunCode
Our cloud-based coding platform with multiple language support, collaboration workflows, and AI-assisted coding, running on Django, Docker, and Kubernetes on AWS.
Read the case studyOnlineCompiler.io
Sandboxed code execution for 12 languages with a REST API, WebSocket support, an embeddable widget, and containerized execution on Docker and Kubernetes on AWS.
Read the case studyRefactored.ai
Multi-tenant upskilling, assessment, and interview practice platform with AI-driven audio and video feedback, running on Kubernetes on AWS.
Read the case studyUK AWS Consulting FAQs
Straight answers to what UK founders and engineering leads ask before starting an AWS engagement
What is AWS consulting, and what does an AWS consultant actually do?
AWS consulting is the work of architecting, migrating, securing, and cost-optimising your applications on Amazon Web Services. In practice that means assessing your current setup, designing a scalable, secure architecture against the AWS Well-Architected Framework, migrating workloads with minimal downtime, automating deployments with CI/CD and infrastructure as code, hardening security and UK compliance, and then continuously right-sizing so you only pay for what you use. We do this hands-on, owning the build and the operations, rather than handing over a slide deck.
Where will our data live: can you guarantee UK data residency?
Yes. We deploy to AWS eu-west-2 (London) so your data and workloads stay resident in the UK, with eu-west-1 (Ireland) used only where a specific service or disaster-recovery requirement calls for it. Region, encryption, and backup decisions are made explicitly, so you can answer data-residency questions from enterprise buyers and auditors with a concrete answer rather than guesswork.
Is running on AWS secure by default?
AWS gives you a secure infrastructure foundation, but security and compliance are a shared responsibility. How you configure it is what determines whether your estate actually holds up. We implement least-privilege IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, private networking, audit logging, and data residency in eu-west-2 (London), and we design the account structure so it is easy to audit. The result is an estate you can put in front of a regulated buyer or an auditor.
Our AWS bill keeps climbing: can you bring it under control?
Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons UK teams call us. Industry-wide, teams routinely overspend on AWS before they get serious about optimisation, because the cloud makes it trivially easy to leave resources running. We apply FinOps discipline: right-sizing over-provisioned instances, moving steady workloads onto Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, retiring idle resources, setting budgets and billing alerts, and tiering cold storage (S3 to Glacier). We report the result in GBP so your finance team sees spend mapped to budgets they recognise. We do not promise a savings figure up front, because it depends on how your estate was built; the assessment shows where the money goes.
What do you actually bring to an AWS engagement?
Hands-on delivery of real customer workloads on AWS, not licence resale. In practice you get engineers who work to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and bring patterns from 50+ delivered projects, so you reach a secure, cost-efficient setup faster and avoid the expensive first-timer mistakes: a security misconfiguration, an architecture that will not scale, or a billing surprise.
Can you support regulated UK workloads?
Yes. We design for sectors where security, audit logging, and data protection are non-negotiable: health, public sector, and other regulated industries. That means least-privilege IAM, KMS encryption, GuardDuty and Security Hub, immutable audit trails, and guardrails aligned to your specific compliance regime rather than the AWS defaults. We architect for your auditors, not against them.
Do you provide ongoing managed AWS support?
Yes. Beyond build and migration we run a managed AWS retainer: monitoring, patching, backups, disaster recovery, and monthly cost and security reviews. You work with the same engineers who own the relationship, not a faceless ticket queue.
Do we own our AWS account and infrastructure?
Yes. Everything runs in your own AWS account under your billing, and you own all infrastructure as code, configuration, and documentation. We build in your repositories and hand over full access, so your team, or another partner, could take over cleanly. There is no lock-in and no proprietary layer you have to keep paying us to maintain.
Make Your AWS Estate Work for Your UK Business
Tell us what you are running, what it costs, and what worries you. We will tell you what we would look at first and whether we are the right team for it.