Takeover

You already run on the cloud. We take over operating it — working the way you already work — then stabilise and improve from there.

Is this the right fit?

This is for you if:

• You're already on AWS but operations are stretched, fragile, or on one person's shoulders.
• You want someone to run it reliably without a disruptive rebuild.
• You'd like to modernise over time, on a sensible roadmap — not all at once.

If you're starting fresh, see Launch or Launch & Manage.

How it works

flowchart LR
    subgraph C["Your AWS accounts — existing"]
        EXIST[Your infrastructure
as-is]
        THEIRS[Your tools & pipelines]
        STATE[(Existing state · logs)]
    end
    subgraph P["Propel"]
        ASSESS[Assess & document
current state]
        OBS[Monitoring + on-call]
        ROADMAP[Improvement roadmap]
    end
    ASSESS --> EXIST
    THEIRS --> EXIST
    EXIST --> STATE
    STATE -.we view in place.-> OBS
    OBS -.operate + fix.-> EXIST
    ROADMAP -.improve incrementally.-> THEIRS

We start with an assessment — inventory, security review, cost review, and a check for configuration drift — before touching anything. Then we operate within your existing tooling and conventions, and only migrate toward our standards where it clearly pays off, on a roadmap agreed with you.

Who owns what

How we handle each piece

• Phase 0 — Assessment — A documented picture of what you have, the risks, the cost hotspots, and where operations are fragile. This is the foundation for everything else.
• Accounts & landing zone — We adopt what exists and harden the highest-risk gaps first (root protection, audit logging, guardrails, public-access blocks).
• Access — We work through your identity provider with scoped, time-boxed access, fully audited.
• Infrastructure as code & deployments — We conform to your existing IaC and pipelines, adding safety gates (plan reviews, policy checks). Migration to our reusable modules happens only where it earns its keep.
• Monitoring, logs & data residency — We add monitoring and on-call on top of your existing setup, querying logs in place. Where retention or coverage is thin, we fix it. Your data stays in your account.
• Security & compliance — Assessment first, then a prioritised remediation roadmap; we enable threat detection and config compliance from the start.
• Cost management — A cost review up front (this is where we typically find forgotten services quietly draining budget), then ongoing budgets, anomaly alerts, and optimisation.
• Backups & disaster recovery — We find the unprotected data stores, close the gaps, and test restores.
• Incident response — On-call with defined severity and response targets, tuned to what's been stabilised.

What you get

• Reliable, accountable operations without a risky big-bang migration.
• A clear-eyed assessment of what you have and what to fix first.
• Steady modernisation on a roadmap you control.
• Cost surprises found and stopped.

At the end

Whenever you choose, we hand operations back to your team (or your next partner) with up-to-date documentation and runbooks — everything stayed in your accounts throughout.