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Infrastructure ManagementYour infrastructure, managed like it matters

  • Complete infrastructure lifecycle management — migration, operations, optimization, and recovery under one engagement
  • FinOps discipline that has saved clients an average of 35% on cloud spend through right-sizing, reserved capacity, and waste elimination
  • Security hardening aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework, SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, HIPAA, and regional regulations
  • Disaster recovery architectures tested quarterly with documented RTO/RPO targets and automated failover
4-12 weeks setup, ongoing
Typical engagement
12
Technologies covered
6
Capabilities
cloud
Discipline
Overview

The work, in detail.

01

We manage cloud infrastructure so your engineering team can focus on building product. From initial migration through ongoing operations, we handle monitoring, cost optimization, security hardening, compliance, and disaster recovery across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Whether you are moving to the cloud for the first time or need a team to run what you have already built, we operate your infrastructure with the same rigor we apply to our own.

Capabilities
  • Cloud migration (lift-and-shift, replatform, refactor)
  • 24/7 monitoring and incident response
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CDK, CloudFormation)
  • Cost optimization and FinOps
  • Security hardening and compliance
  • Disaster recovery and business continuity
Stack
AWS Systems Manager · CloudWatch · AWS Config · Control Tower · Terraform · CloudFormation · AWS CDK · GuardDuty · Security Hub · AWS Backup · Cost Explorer · Elastic Disaster Recovery
What we deliver

The infrastructure management stack.

  1. 01

    Cloud Migration

    Get to cloud without the chaos

    We plan and execute cloud migrations using AWS's three-phase methodology: Assess, Mobilize, Migrate. Whether you are moving 10 servers or 300, we map dependencies, build the landing zone, execute the migration in waves, and optimize post-cutover. Every migration includes automated rollback capability.

    • Portfolio discovery and dependency mapping with automated tooling
    • Landing zone design with multi-account governance (Control Tower, Organizations)
    • Server replication with AWS MGN and zero-downtime cutover orchestration
    • Database migration with AWS DMS, including heterogeneous platform changes
    • Post-migration optimization: right-sizing, reserved instances, performance tuning
  2. 02

    Monitoring & Operations

    See everything, fix it before users notice

    We build and operate monitoring infrastructure that gives you full visibility into your cloud environment. CloudWatch dashboards, custom metrics, alerting, log aggregation, and automated incident response. When something breaks at 3am, our runbooks handle it — not your engineering team.

    • CloudWatch dashboards with custom metrics, alarms, and anomaly detection
    • Centralized log aggregation and analysis across all services
    • Automated incident response runbooks with Systems Manager Automation
    • Infrastructure drift detection and remediation with AWS Config
    • Monthly operations reviews with uptime reporting and improvement recommendations
  3. 03

    Cost Optimization & FinOps

    Stop overpaying for cloud you are not using

    Cloud bills grow faster than most teams realize. We implement FinOps practices that bring spending under control: right-sizing instances, eliminating unused resources, optimizing reserved capacity, and building cost allocation models that tie spending to business outcomes. Most clients see 25-40% savings within the first quarter.

    • Cloud spend audit with detailed waste identification and savings roadmap
    • Right-sizing recommendations using Compute Optimizer and usage analysis
    • Reserved Instance and Savings Plan optimization across accounts
    • Cost allocation tagging and per-team/per-product spend attribution
    • Monthly FinOps reporting with trend analysis and anomaly alerts
  4. 04

    Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity

    When things go wrong, recovery is automatic

    We design and implement disaster recovery architectures matched to your RTO/RPO requirements and budget. From basic backup-and-restore through active-active multi-region, we build the recovery infrastructure, automate failover, and test it quarterly so you know it works before you need it.

    • DR strategy selection: backup/restore, pilot light, warm standby, or active/active
    • Cross-region and cross-account replication with AWS Backup and DRS
    • Automated failover with Route 53 health checks and Global Accelerator
    • Quarterly DR testing with documented results and gap remediation
    • Ransomware-resilient backups with immutable storage and air-gapped copies
Impact

What clients have actually shipped.

  1. 01
    Nordic FinTech Scale-up

    Full Infrastructure Takeover for FinTech Startup

    Took over management of a 40-service AWS environment that had grown organically without operational discipline. Implemented monitoring, alerting, IaC, cost controls, and DR in 6 weeks. Reduced monthly AWS bill by 38% while improving uptime from 99.2% to 99.95%.

    38%
    Cloud Spend Reduction
    99.2% to 99.95%
    Uptime Improvement
    6 weeks
    Setup Time
    12 to 1
    Incidents per Month
  2. 02
    West African Financial Services Group

    Enterprise Migration and Managed Operations

    Migrated 120 servers and 8 business-critical applications from co-located data centers to AWS over 16 weeks, then transitioned to ongoing managed operations. Built multi-region DR with 15-minute RPO, implemented SOC 2-aligned security controls, and reduced infrastructure team headcount from 6 to 2.

    120
    Servers Migrated
    Zero
    Downtime During Migration
    $890K
    Annual Infra Cost Savings
    15 minutes
    Recovery Point Objective
Partners

Who we work with.

  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Terraform
  • Datadog
  • PagerDuty
Word from a client
"We were spending 60% of our engineering time firefighting infrastructure issues instead of building product. CreativeMinds took over our entire AWS environment, cut our bill by a third, and we haven't had a production incident in four months. Best decision we made this year."
Lars Eriksson
CTO · Nordic FinTech Scale-up
Process

How we run an engagement.

  1. 01

    Discovery

    We learn the business, the constraints, and the real technical problem — workshops, stakeholder interviews, and competitive review. Most ambiguity gets resolved here.

  2. 02

    Planning

    A scoped roadmap with milestones, deliverables, architecture decisions, and the trade-offs we made and rejected. You get the document, not a slide.

  3. 03

    Development

    Senior-only delivery. Sprint cadence, transparent progress, continuous integration. No mid-project surprise about who is actually writing the code.

  4. 04

    Delivery

    Deploy, validate, hand off. Full documentation, monitoring in place, and a defined window of post-launch support to catch what only production reveals.

Engage

Start this engagement.

Tell us what you are trying to ship. We'll come back with whether we are the right team, what scope looks like, and what a 4-12 weeks setup, ongoing engagement would cover.

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  2. 02
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  3. 03
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  4. 04
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