AWS consultant and development team

What AWS is and what it is good at

Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud provider, offering hundreds of services you rent by usage instead of buying servers. A typical business app on AWS might use EC2 or containers for running code, Lambda for small functions that only run when needed, RDS for a managed PostgreSQL or MySQL database, S3 for file storage, CloudFront to serve files and pages quickly worldwide, Cognito for user sign-in and SES for sending email. Amazon Bedrock gives access to AI models from several providers inside the same account.

AWS is good at breadth and scale. Almost anything you might need exists as a managed service, it runs in many regions around the world, and an app can grow from a handful of users to a very large number without moving providers. Most third-party tools integrate with it first.

When AWS is the right choice, and when it is not

AWS fits well when you expect real growth, need a specific managed service, have customers or partners who require it, or want to keep everything in one account as your software grows from one app to several.

It is not always the simplest or cheapest option. The console is complex, permissions (IAM) are easy to get wrong, and pricing has many moving parts: data transfer, idle resources and forgotten test servers quietly add up. For a small app, a simpler host such as AWS Lightsail, a platform like Render, or a managed backend like Firebase can cost less and need less upkeep. Companies that live in Microsoft 365 often find Azure fits more naturally, and teams using Google Workspace, BigQuery or Firebase may prefer Google Cloud. All three major clouds are capable; the right one depends on what you already use and what the app needs.

What an AWS consultant usually finds in a small business account

• Servers and databases sized for a launch-day traffic spike that never came, running at a fraction of capacity.
• Old test environments, snapshots and storage nobody remembers creating, still billing every month.
• One shared login with full admin rights, often the root account, used by everyone including past contractors.
• No budget alerts, so a runaway bill is noticed weeks later.
• Backups that exist but have never been restored to check they work.
• Everything built by hand in the console, so nobody can rebuild it if something breaks.

What we build and run on AWS

• Web apps, portals and SaaS products hosted on containers or serverless functions, sized to real traffic.
• APIs and backends for mobile apps, with sign-in, file uploads and push notifications.
• Data pipelines that collect, clean and report on data from your other systems.
• AI features using Amazon Bedrock or other model providers, kept inside your own account.
• Infrastructure written as code, so environments can be rebuilt, reviewed and copied reliably.
• Clean-ups of existing accounts: right-sizing, removing waste, locking down access and adding alerts.
• Moves to AWS from shared hosting, a single office server or another cloud.

AWS developer for hire, consultant or development company?

A freelance AWS developer for hire can handle a specific task, such as setting up hosting for an app or fixing a broken deployment. It works best when the task is well defined and someone on your side can check the result.

An AWS consultant is usually hired for a review: architecture, security or cost. That is valuable, but many consultants hand you a report and leave, and the fixes still need someone to do them.

An in-house cloud engineer makes sense for companies with large, constantly changing infrastructure. Most small businesses do not have enough cloud work to keep one busy.

An AWS development company like Zoti builds the software and runs the infrastructure it lives on, so the same team that writes the code keeps the account healthy. Hosting and ongoing changes are part of the monthly plan, which starts at $499/month.

How we review and take over an AWS account

1. Read-only lookYou give us limited, read-only access and we map every service, region and cost in the account.
2. Plain-English reportYou get a short write-up of risks, waste and quick wins, ranked by impact.
3. Secure the basicsIndividual logins, least-privilege permissions, multi-factor sign-in, budget alerts and tested backups come first.
4. Right-size and tidyIdle resources are removed and oversized ones scaled down, checked against real usage.
5. Codify and maintainWe capture the setup as code and keep it updated as your software changes.