Cloud Foundations

We set up a hardened foundation to best practice — IAM, networking, observability, and secrets wired into the Terraform that creates them, with policy-as-code gates that catch drift in CI, not in production.

How it works

• 2–4 weeks per engagement, Google Cloud, AWS or Azure.

• Hardened Terraform. Remote encrypted state with locking, modular structure, tflint / tfsec / checkov in CI, policy-as-code gates, no console-clicking allowed.

• Landing-zone pattern. Org structure, service-control / org policies, separate accounts or projects per environment.

• Networking. Private-by-default VPC, no default networks, scoped egress, every flow audited.

• IAM. Scoped credentials per actor type (humans, services, agents), short-lived tokens, secret rotation, full audit telemetry.

• Observability. By default — dashboards and alert routes wired before any workload lands.

• Cost controls. Budget guardrails, per-environment cost ceilings, billing alerts triggered before the first dollar runs.

Output

A hardened cloud foundation in your environment, owned by you, covering:

1. A Terraform monorepo in your GitHub org with encrypted remote state and CI-gated apply.

2. A documented org structure, IAM matrix, and network diagram.

3. Observability dashboards your team will actually open, with alert routes that wake the right person.

4. Secret-rotation runbooks and audit telemetry.

5. Budget alerts, per-environment cost ceilings, and a quarterly cost-review template.

6. A security baseline mapped to CIS benchmarks (where they apply) and an evidence pack for procurement teams.

7. A handover document so your team can extend without us.

Cost: Medium complexity - $30K-$40K USD / $40K - $60K AUD+GST