Cloud and infrastructure
SDEN designs, deploys, and operates cloud infrastructure on AWS, GCP, and Azure across US, Canadian, and EU regions, with cost discipline and Infrastructure as Code by default.
What this domain covers
Cloud at SDEN is multi-cloud literate by training and region-flexible by default. We deploy on AWS, GCP, and Azure where the workload requires it, and we deploy in your region (US, Canada, or EU) when the threat model and the data-residency requirements make a specific jurisdiction the better call. Either way the infrastructure ships as code (Terraform, Pulumi, or the provider-native IaC), reviewed in the same pull-request flow as application code.
Cost discipline is not optional. Every new feature ships with a published $/month estimate before it deploys, and we run a monthly cost review against the previous month's bill. The most common finding is over-provisioned dev environments, and the second most common is forgotten snapshots. Cost is not a finance concern downstream of engineering; it is an engineering output we sign for.
Cloud and infrastructure: the SDEN defaults
Defaults we ship
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform): no click-ops in production
- Per-environment isolation with separate accounts / projects
- Per-feature $/month cost estimate published in the deployment PR
- Monitoring (Prometheus / Grafana) and alerting wired before launch
Deliverables
- Terraform modules covering the full stack, version-controlled in your repo
- Multi-environment topology (dev, staging, production) with parity
- Cost dashboard scoped to the project
- Runbooks for the operational tasks the on-call engineer will need
What we refuse to ship
We will not deploy to production with credentials in environment variables on a single VM. Secrets live in a managed store; deploys are reproducible from the repo.
Cloud & infrastructure
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