Fast Foundation

Customer Challenges

Can’t close deals because the infrastructure is not secure or compliant (SOC2/HIPAA)

Need to move to Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) but lack time and expertise

Frustrated with high costs of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers

Need to accelerate DevSecOps capabilities: address security, reliability, observatory, and alerting

Solution Overview (Fast Foundation)

Fast Foundation for AWS is a comprehensive, battle-tested Infrastructure as Code (IaC) blueprint designed to streamline and enhance your cloud operations. Built on the AWS Well-Architected Framework, it ensures security, compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / NIST-800), scalability, and cost-efficiency while allowing your team to focus on innovation.

Key Features

AWS Well-Architected Framework

Multi-account, multi-environment setup with Zero Trust security principles, optimizing for cost, reliability, and scalability.

Everything as Code (Terraform)

Infrastructure, users & roles, application configurations, and alarms are all managed through code, ensuring consistency, ease of management and instant disaster recovery.

Observability

Built-in Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting.

Cost Optimization

Autoscaling and Spot Instance usage to reduce your operational costs.

Compliance

Out-of-the-box compliance with SOC 2, NIST-800, and HIPAA standards.

Rapid Deployment

Go live in weeks (typically 2-4 weeks) with an 80% faster time-to-market compared to DIY solutions.

No Vendor Lock-In

Fast Foundation is a collection of Terraform scripts that our clients will own from day one.

Core Components

Developer Experience

Multi-account, multi-environment setup with Zero Trust security principles, optimizing for cost, reliability, and scalability.

Environment Security

Infrastructure, users & roles, application configurations, and alarms are all managed through code, ensuring consistency, ease of management and instant disaster recovery.

Network Security

Built-in Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting.

Observability

Comprehensive monitoring and logging with AWS CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Prometheus, S3 and AWS Athena, and optional tools like Grafana, OpenSearch, or New Relic and DataDog Integrations.

Cost Optimization

Autoscaling and AWS Spot Instance usage through Karpenter. Kubecost for enhanced visibility and cost-saving recommendations. Optimized Prometheus for a >50% cost reduction in metrics ingestion.

Effortless Orchestration

Harness EKS potential without the overhead with our optimized EKS, configured out-of-the-box for best practices and already integrated with all the required tooling. AWS Serverless framework also supported.