Guides for founders who run on AWS.
Written for the person who has to make the call, not the person who has to configure it. Every guide carries the date its facts were last checked.
01Guides
AWS Activate credits in 2026
The tiers, who qualifies, why applications get rejected, and what happens when credits expire.
When to hire your first DevOps engineer
Signals by team size, 2026 pay in the US and UK, and an honest cost comparison.
The production readiness checklist
Forty checks, each tagged with when it starts to matter. Downloadable.
Series A technical due diligence
What reviewers ask, fifteen documents for the data room, and a 60-day prep plan.
ECS or EKS?
A decision rule for teams under 15 engineers, with the 2026 cost maths.
02Tools