Engineering & Consultancy

DevOps & cloud infrastructure, ship faster, sleep better.

The platform under your product decides how fast you ship and how well you sleep. We build HIPAA-eligible cloud, automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code, with the observability to run it calmly.

The pipeline

Every change takes the same safe path to production

A deploy shouldn't be an event. We build the pipeline that takes a commit to production the same way every time — tested, scanned and reversible.

01

Code

Commit triggers the pipeline — every change, the same path.

02

Build

Reproducible builds and artifacts, not works-on-my-machine.

03

Test

Automated tests and security scans gate every change.

04

Deploy

Safe, repeatable deploys with rollback built in.

05

Operate

Run it on hardened, HIPAA-eligible cloud infrastructure.

06

Monitor

See problems early — the logs and metrics are already there.

Why AST

Platforms built by people who run them under pressure

We build infrastructure the way teams who carry the pager do — for the 3am incident, not just the demo.

17+
years running healthcare workloads

We've operated systems where downtime isn't an inconvenience — it's a patient-safety event.

IaC
everything as code

Infrastructure, pipelines and policy in version control — reviewable, repeatable, no snowflakes.

3
clouds we build on

HIPAA-eligible AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, configured for PHI under a BAA.

99.9%+
uptime targets, met

Reliability designed in and measured, not promised in a slide and forgotten.

The engagement

How we build your platform

From a secure cloud foundation to automated delivery and the observability to operate it — built as code, handed over clean.

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01Cloud foundation

A secure, HIPAA-eligible landing zone — accounts, networking, identity and guardrails — so everything built on it inherits good defaults.

  • Landing zone
  • Network & identity
  • Guardrails & policy
  • Multi-account structure
02CI/CD pipelines

Automated pipelines that take a commit to production safely — with tests, security scans and rollback as non-negotiable gates.

  • Build & test automation
  • Security scanning
  • Progressive delivery
  • Rollback & recovery
03Infrastructure as code

Your whole environment defined in code, so it's reproducible, reviewable and survives the person who set it up leaving.

  • Terraform / IaC
  • Reusable modules
  • Drift detection
  • Environment parity
04Observability & SRE

Logging, metrics, tracing and alerting wired in from the start — plus the on-call practices that turn alerts into action.

  • Logging & metrics
  • Tracing
  • SLOs & alerting
  • On-call & runbooks
What we put in place

The platform, end to end

CI/CD automation

From commit to production, automated and safe.

  • Pipelines
  • Test gates
  • Progressive delivery
  • Rollback

Infrastructure as code

The whole environment, version-controlled.

  • Terraform
  • Modules
  • Policy as code
  • Drift control

Containers & orchestration

Portable workloads, run reliably at scale.

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes / ECS
  • Service mesh
  • Autoscaling

Observability

See, measure and explain what production is doing.

  • Logging & SIEM
  • Metrics
  • Distributed tracing
  • Dashboards

DevSecOps

Security shifted left, into the pipeline.

  • Pipeline scanning
  • Secrets management
  • Compliance as code
  • Image hardening

Cost optimization

A cloud bill that scales with value, not waste.

  • Right-sizing
  • Autoscaling
  • Cost visibility
  • Reserved capacity
Who it's for

Wherever your platform is today

Building a cloud from scratch, buried in manual ops, or facing an audit — the answer is the same: a platform built as code.

An engineering workstation

Startups standing up their cloud

You're building a clinical product and need a cloud platform under it that's secure, scalable and compliant from day one — not something you'll have to redo after the first audit.

  • HIPAA-eligible foundation
  • CI/CD from day one
  • Scales with you
  • No early tech debt

Teams drowning in toil

Deploys are manual, fragile and feared, and your engineers spend their time fighting infrastructure instead of shipping. We automate the toil away and give them their time back.

  • Automated deploys
  • Less firefighting
  • Faster releases
  • Happier engineers

Cloud that has to pass an audit

Your cloud has to stand up to HIPAA, SOC 2 or FedRAMP scrutiny. We build the controls and the evidence into the infrastructure so compliance is a property of the platform.

  • Compliant by design
  • Evidence built in
  • Auditable infrastructure
  • Policy as code
The difference

Click-ops, or a platform as code

The gap between a team that ships daily without fear and one that dreads every deploy is mostly automation.

The status quo
Manual operations
Click-ops and tribal knowledge

Infrastructure set up by hand, deploys done by whoever knows the steps, and a configuration nobody can fully reproduce. It works until the person who built it is on holiday.

  • Not reproducible
  • Fragile, feared deploys
  • Knowledge in heads
  • Slow and risky
With AST
An automated platform
Everything as code

A platform defined in code, with automated pipelines, guardrails and observability — so deploys are routine, the environment is reproducible, and reliability is measurable.

  • Reproducible
  • Safe, routine deploys
  • Knowledge in code
  • Fast and reliable
How we deliver

From assessment to an operated platform

01
Assess

Current state, pain points and goals.

02
Design

The target platform and pipelines.

03
Build

Landing zone and core infrastructure.

04
Automate

CI/CD, IaC and policy as code.

05
Harden

Security, compliance and resilience.

06
Operate

Observability, SRE and handover.

How we engineer

Platform principles we build by

The convictions that make a platform boring in the best way — predictable, observable and calm.

Cloud infrastructure

Everything as code

Infrastructure, pipelines and policy live in version control — reviewable, repeatable and free of snowflakes.

Automate the toil

If a human does it more than twice, it should be automated. Engineers build; pipelines deploy.

Observability first

You can't operate what you can't see. Logging, metrics and tracing are built in, not bolted on.

Secure by default

Security is shifted left into the pipeline, so the safe path is also the easy path.

Reliability is a feature

Uptime and recovery are designed and measured against SLOs — not left to luck.

Cost-aware

We build for a cloud bill that scales with the value delivered, not with neglect.

Questions

DevOps & cloud FAQ

Which clouds do you work with?

AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, using their HIPAA-eligible services under a BAA. We build to each provider's well-architected framework rather than forcing a one-size template onto your stack.

Do you set things up, or run them too?

Either. We can stand up the platform and hand it over with documentation and runbooks, or stay on in an SRE capacity to operate and evolve it. Many clients start with build and move to a lighter ongoing engagement.

We have no DevOps practice at all — is that a problem?

No, it's a common starting point. We build the foundation, the pipelines and the practices, and we level up your team as we go so you're not dependent on us forever.

Can you make our cloud audit-ready?

Yes. We build the controls and evidence for HIPAA, SOC 2 or FedRAMP into the infrastructure as code, so compliance is continuous and the audit is largely an export rather than a scramble.

Will this disrupt our current deployments?

We introduce automation incrementally alongside what you have, rather than ripping out your pipeline overnight. You keep shipping while the platform improves underneath you.

Let's build the platform

Tired of deploys that feel like a gamble?

Tell us what you run and where it hurts. We'll design the platform that makes shipping routine and running it calm.

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