SaaS migration from Laravel Forge to AWS

We implement a comprehensive resilience strategy to ensure data safety and business continuity. The goal is to make recovery swift and predictable.

Our process involves implementing automated backups for critical databases like Aurora and DocumentDB, defining parameterized Recovery Point and Recovery Time Objectives, and validating the restore procedures.

For content, assets are served globally via S3 and CloudFront, while background jobs are managed through queues to ensure graceful degradation rather than catastrophic failure during an incident.

Through a combination of proactive performance tuning and load testing before production deployment. We don't guess about performance; we validate it.

We start by profiling application hotspots with New Relic to identify bottlenecks. We then optimize the underlying services (like Nginx and PHP-FPM) and fine-tune container resources.

Finally, we conduct load testing to validate the EKS autoscaling policies, ensuring the platform performs predictably and can handle growth scenarios without degradation.

By establishing a secure baseline that eliminates hard-coded secrets and enforces the principle of least privilege. Configuration drift is a major security risk, so we control it programmatically.

Our approach involves minimizing and scoping all IAM roles, hardening security groups, and locking down cluster access.

We enforce image provenance via ECR to ensure only trusted code runs, and all secrets are centralized in a system like AWS Secrets Manager or SSM Parameter Store, removing them entirely from the codebase and CI/CD logs.

We implement FinOps guardrails from day one to provide cost visibility and control. The goal is to align spending directly with usage and business value.

This involves establishing a consistent resource tagging policy for chargeback, implementing right-sizing policies for clusters and databases, and configuring autoscaling to eliminate payment for idle capacity.

We provide dashboards for spend visibility and growth forecasting, which help the team keep costs predictable and avoid surprise bills.

Through a structured knowledge transfer and enablement process with Thread engineers. Our objective is not to create long-term dependency but to empower your internal team.

We achieve this by pairing directly with your engineers on specific tasks, creating thorough documentation for the new architecture, and running dedicated enablement sessions on the core technologies we implement, such as EKS, Terraform, and the CI/CD pipelines. This ensures your team can confidently own and manage the day-to-day operations of the new platform.