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AWS Development
WAYF is an AWS Development Agency:
Scale Without Limits.
AWS is where most of our work ends up deployed. Not because we're AWS specialists chasing certifications, but because it's where the industry landed and because knowing the platform well means fewer surprises when your application meets production.
WAYF Digital handles AWS infrastructure as part of building products. The goal isn't elegant architecture diagrams — it's applications that deploy reliably, scale when needed, and don't wake anyone up at 3am.
What We Do On AWS
Infrastructure for the applications we build. CI/CD pipelines that deploy without drama. Environments that mirror production closely enough that "works on my machine" stops being a phrase anyone says.
Container orchestration — ECS for most projects, EKS when Kubernetes is genuinely justified. Serverless where it fits: Lambda for event-driven workloads, API Gateway for endpoints that don't need a full server running.
Database infrastructure. RDS for PostgreSQL and MySQL. DynamoDB when the access patterns suit it. ElastiCache when caching becomes necessary. Data stores chosen for the application's needs, not for architectural elegance.
The supporting cast: S3 for storage, CloudFront for CDN, SES for email, Cognito for auth when it makes sense. The services that applications need but that shouldn't require ongoing attention once configured.
What we don't do: pure infrastructure consulting disconnected from applications. If you need someone to redesign your AWS organization structure or optimize spend across hundreds of accounts, that's a different kind of company. We're strongest when infrastructure serves software we're building or maintaining.
Technical Approach
Infrastructure as Code, Always
Terraform for most projects. Resources defined, versioned, and reviewable. Environments reproducible. No manual console changes that drift from what's documented.
Serverless Where Appropriate
Lambda works well for event processing, scheduled tasks, and APIs with unpredictable traffic. It works poorly for applications with consistent load or complex state. We pick based on the workload, not the trend.
Monitoring from Day One
CloudWatch for basics. Application-level observability through tools the team already knows. Alerts that mean something — not noise that trains everyone to ignore them.
Patterns That Cause Problems
Click-ops infrastructure. Everything configured through the console. No record of what exists or why. Recreating an environment means someone remembering what they clicked six months ago. We use Terraform. Infrastructure as code isn't optional.
Over-engineering on day one. Kubernetes for an app with three users. Multi-region active-active for a product that hasn't found market fit. Reserved instances purchased before anyone knows what the load looks like. Right-size later; ship first.
Security as afterthought. IAM policies copied from Stack Overflow. Credentials in environment variables that aren't actually secret. Security groups that allow everything because debugging was easier that way. We configure security correctly from the start — it's harder to retrofit.
The bill surprise. Nobody watching costs until the invoice arrives. Data transfer charges nobody expected. NAT gateway fees that dwarf compute costs. We set up billing alerts and check dashboards. Awareness isn't the same as premature optimization.
Who We Work Well With
Clients building applications who need infrastructure handled as part of delivery. Not a separate workstream, not a different vendor — one team that ships features and keeps them running.
Also: clients whose AWS setup grew organically and needs structure. Console-configured resources that should be codified. Environments that don't match. Deployments that are manual and scary. We clean these up, usually as part of broader application work.
What both types have in common: they see infrastructure as a means to an end, they want direct communication about tradeoffs, and they'd rather have simple and reliable than impressive and fragile.
Who We're Not For
If you need deep AWS specialization — cost optimization across a large organization, complex networking architectures, compliance frameworks we haven't worked with — a dedicated cloud consultancy will serve you better. Our AWS knowledge is broad and practical, not exhaustive.
If you're comparing agencies on hourly rate alone, we'll lose that spreadsheet every time. What we won't lose is weekends to deployment failures, security incidents that were preventable, and infrastructure that nobody understands.
If you need infrastructure without application work, we're probably not the right fit. Our strength is full-stack delivery. AWS in isolation isn't where we add the most value.



