Insights

Cloud engineering thoughts, guides, and lessons learned

Case Study

How We Built This Website: Architecture, Security, and Cost

We practice what we preach. This website is built and deployed using the same principles, tools, and frameworks we recommend to our clients. Here’s a complete breakdown of how kaizenconsultancy.io is architected, secured, deployed, and what it actually costs to run.

TL;DR for non-techies

This website costs about a pound a month to run. It’s hosted on Amazon’s cloud infrastructure, loads fast anywhere in the world, is secured to enterprise standards, and can be rebuilt from scratch in 10 minutes. Every part of it is automated - no manual steps, no clicking through dashboards, no room for human error. We built it this way because it’s exactly how we’d build cloud infrastructure for a client. If we can’t do it for our own site, why would you trust us to do it for yours?

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Infrastructure

Why Automate Your Cloud Infrastructure?

If you’re still provisioning cloud resources by clicking through the AWS console or Azure portal, you’re building on sand. Every manual step is a risk - unrepeatable, undocumented, and impossible to audit.

The problem with manual provisioning

We’ve seen it dozens of times across a decade of cloud engineering. An engineer builds a VPC by hand, configures security groups from memory, and deploys an application with a series of CLI commands they half-remember. It works. Until it doesn’t.

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