Nobody owns AWS full time
Operational work is scattered across whoever touched the cloud last, and it shows.
AWS operations for startups
AWS operations, owned end to end, so your engineers stay on product.
Ctrl Deploy is an ongoing operations partner for startups. Dedicated senior ownership of security, reliability, cost, and compliance in your AWS accounts, on a steady cadence, with experience that runs from Amazon Prime Video to SOC 2-audited startups.
A practical conversation about how your AWS runs today. No prepackaged assessment.
OPERATIONS CADENCE
A normal week on your AWS
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Security posture and accessIAM reviews, findings triaged and remediated
running
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Reliability and incident readinessMonitoring, alerts, recovery, runbooks
scheduled
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Infrastructure changesIaC, upgrades, patching, guardrails
scheduled
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Compliance operationsSOC 2 evidence, controls monitored, audit support
scheduled
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Cost controlSpend reviewed, waste removed, right-sizing
scheduled
01Former Amazon Prime Video engineer
02Platform and security leader
03SOC 2 led end to end
04Production AWS built as code
WHEN IT FITS
Startups need AWS operations long before they can justify a platform team.
The work is continuous: access reviews, alerts, patching, evidence, cost, incidents. At most startups it belongs to nobody, so it lands on product engineers or waits.
Customers and auditors expect operational maturity
Security reviews, SOC 2, and uptime commitments have become recurring obligations, not one-time projects.
Product engineers are the de facto platform team
On-call work, infrastructure changes, and operational toil are pulling them off the roadmap.
A platform hire is not justified yet
The workload is real today, but it does not add up to a full-time role, let alone a team.
HOW IT WORKS
Take ownership first, then run a steady operational cadence.
The engagement starts by understanding how your AWS actually runs: what is monitored, who has access, what the spend looks like, and what your customers and auditors expect.
From there, Ctrl Deploy takes ownership of the operational backlog and keeps it moving on a recurring cadence, with the state of your cloud reported back in plain terms.
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Baseline the environment
Security, reliability, cost, and compliance state, and what matters most to your business.
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Take over the operational backlog
Clear the urgent work, then put monitoring, guardrails, and infrastructure as code in place.
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Operate on a cadence
Recurring reviews, incident support, and reporting, so the cloud improves month after month.
WHAT'S COVERED
The operations a platform team would own, without the headcount.
Coverage flexes with your environment. The state of your cloud determines the cadence, not a rigid checklist.
Infrastructure and delivery operations
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD, account structure, networking, upgrades, patching, and guardrails.
Security and compliance operations
IAM, logging, encryption, findings remediation, SOC 2 evidence, and enterprise security reviews.
Reliability operations
Observability, incident readiness and response, recovery, runbooks, and operational toil.
Cost operations
Spend visibility, recurring cost reviews, right-sizing, and architecture decisions as you scale.
Sanjay Shukla
Founder and hands-on engineer
WHO DOES THE WORK
You work with the engineer who owns the outcome.
I led platform and security engineering at an AI startup, owned its cloud infrastructure, and took the company through SOC 2. Before that, I built production infrastructure as code at Amazon Prime Video.
Ctrl Deploy exists so startups can have senior AWS ownership on an ongoing basis, without pulling engineers off product or hiring a platform team before they are ready.
Hands-on delivery
Least-privilege access
Documented in your systems
SELECTED WORK
Proof from real cloud and compliance delivery.
COMMON QUESTIONS
A direct answer before we talk.
A recurring monthly engagement with dedicated senior ownership of your AWS operations: standing reviews, the operational backlog, incident support, and plain-language reporting. Scope flexes with your environment, and there is no long lock-in.
No. It covers the years when the work is real but a dedicated team is not justified. When you are ready to hire, I help define the role, support the interview loop, and hand over documented, working systems.
No. SOC 2 is one area where I have strong implementation experience, and compliance operations are part of the coverage. The partnership spans AWS infrastructure, security, reliability, cost, and delivery.
Access is least-privilege, scoped to the work, time-boxed, and revoked when it is no longer needed. The work is documented and remains in systems you own.
We discuss how your AWS runs today, who owns the operational work, what keeps slipping, and what your customers or auditors expect next. If an operations partner is not the right answer, I will say so.
START THE CONVERSATION
What would you hand to an AWS operations partner first?
Bring the alerts nobody watches, the audit date, the cost report, or the backlog. We will start where the pressure is.
Talk with Sanjay sanjay@ctrldeploy.com