The Platform Under Your AI, Run as Code
Terraform-managed infrastructure, deploys that roll back in minutes, and spend guardrails on platforms that ship without them. Cloudflare edge, AWS core: the architecture we run ourselves.
- Timeline
- 2-3 weeks (platform readiness assessment), 4-8 weeks (platform build), ongoing (managed operations)
- Team
- Platform Engineer · DevOps Lead · SRE · Security Engineer
- Typical stack
- Cloudflare (Workers, Zero Trust, WAF, R2, Terraform provider v5), AWS, Terraform, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Honeycomb, or Axiom
What you get
- Terraform-codified estate: Cloudflare zones, WAF, DNS, Access policies, and AWS resources imported from console click-ops into versioned modules with drift detection
- CI/CD pipelines with progressive delivery: canary releases, percentage traffic splitting, automated rollback, and per-PR preview environments (GitHub Actions or GitLab CI)
- Observability across edge and origin: OpenTelemetry tracing, dashboards, SLOs with error budgets, and alert runbooks wired to your on-call
- Spend guardrails: rate limits, usage circuit-breakers, per-service budgets, and anomaly alerts on platforms that have no native billing kill-switch
- Zero Trust access operations: SSO-backed policies for admin surfaces, internal apps, and CI pipelines, with quarterly access reviews
- Failure-mode design: origin fallback, graceful degradation paths, and multi-CDN options for revenue-critical routes, each one tested, not assumed
- Operations runbook and 30-day support, with an optional managed retainer for monitoring, rule lifecycle, and incident response
Outcomes
- 100% of edge and cloud configuration in version control
- Config changes ship as reviewed pull requests, not console edits
- Rollback rehearsed and timed on every critical service
- Hard spend caps and anomaly alerts where the platform offers none
- Documented, tested failure mode for every revenue-critical path
How we approach it
Hybrid: Cloudflare edge, cloud core
- When:
- You have real infrastructure in AWS or another cloud and want edge performance, security, and economics without a re-platform
- Tradeoffs:
- Two platforms to operate, which is why everything goes into one Terraform workflow. This is the default we recommend and the architecture we run ourselves.
- Best for:
- SaaS, E-commerce, Most mid-market estates
Edge-first
- When:
- New builds where latency, global reach, and per-request economics dominate; request-driven and agent workloads
- Tradeoffs:
- Best economics and simplest operations, but you inherit single-vendor risk and young primitives (10 GB database cap, no native container autoscaling). Needs tested fallbacks.
- Best for:
- Startups, APIs, Agent workloads
Multi-CDN critical path
- When:
- Revenue-critical routes where an edge outage is unacceptable
- Tradeoffs:
- Highest resilience at meaningful added complexity and cost. We scope it to the routes that earn it rather than the whole estate.
- Best for:
- Media, Ticketing, Payments
Where teams use it
Technology & SaaS
Multi-tenant SaaS on hybrid edge
Preview environments per pull request, canary deploys with tenant-aware traffic splitting, per-tenant WAF and rate-limit policies, and egress-free asset serving from R2
Retail & E-commerce
Peak-season resilience
Failure modes load-tested before Black Friday: stale-serve product pages when origin degrades, bot management tuned against scalpers and scrapers, and spend alerts on traffic surges
Media & Publishing
Delivery economics and AI crawler policy
Egress-free delivery from R2: Cloudflare's research puts egress-fee elimination at 7.5 to 27% of a typical monthly cloud bill, and Prisma's published post-mortem cut distribution costs 98% moving 250TB per month of read-heavy traffic off S3 and CloudFront. Plus a deliberate AI crawler policy: allow for answer-engine visibility, block, or charge via Pay Per Crawl
What we need from you
- Read-only access to your Cloudflare and cloud accounts for the assessment
- Existing IaC, pipeline, and repository access
- Last 3 months of platform invoices and usage data
- Incident history and current on-call setup
- Compliance constraints and change-approval requirements
Proof points
- Terraform module sample: a Cloudflare zone with WAF, cache rules, and Access policies fully as code
- Architecture diagram of our own production estate: Cloudflare edge in front of AWS origin
- Spend guardrail pattern: circuit-breaker design with alert thresholds and a kill path
- Runbook excerpt: rollback procedure with timings from a rehearsal
Built for procurement
- Change management: every configuration change as a reviewed pull request with full audit trail and rollback reference
- Access control: SSO-backed Zero Trust policies on admin surfaces, RBAC, quarterly access reviews
- Incident response: severity definitions, escalation paths, and response-time commitments in the retainer SLA
- Cost governance: budgets per service, anomaly alerts, monthly spend review with named owners
- Resilience evidence: documented failure modes with rehearsal dates and measured recovery times
- Compliance support: audit-ready change logs and access records for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 programs