The wrong infrastructure decision costs a year of an engineer. Testing AWS costs a month.
SMB AWS Quick Start: production-ready AWS, fixed price, live in weeks. Foundation €1,500 · Production Launch €7,499. No T&M, no surprises on the invoice — and you own every line of the code.
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Fixed timeline. In writing.
You're standing at a fork. Two of the three roads are one-way.
Your hardware is ageing, or your VPS is running out of headroom. You have three options on the table:
Getting this wrong costs roughly a year of a full-time engineer — $20–30K in capex and salaried time, locked in for years. That's the bet you're about to place on a guess.
There's a fourth option: spend €1,500 to see the facts before you bet the $20–30K. Month versus year — that's the whole pitch. That's what Quick Start is for.
Two ways in — fixed scope, fixed price, fixed timeline.
Nobody buys a VPC. You're buying certainty about a $20–30K decision — at two depths. No time-and-materials billing on either one: the price on this page is the price on the invoice.
MAIN OFFER
Production Launch — €7,499, live in 3–4 weeks.
€7,499 — fixed price, no T&M
Live in production in 3–4 weeks
Everything in Foundation, plus your first real workload running in production — deployed, monitored, and handed over. Not a proof-of-concept on a whiteboard: your application, in your AWS account, serving traffic, with a real bill you can read. The fork, resolved — in a month instead of a year.
- Everything in Foundation, plus:
- Your app live on ECS Fargate behind a load balancer — or as a serverless API (API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB), whichever fits your workload
- Managed database: RDS MySQL/PostgreSQL or Aurora — private subnets, encrypted, daily snapshots
- Container registry (ECR) with vulnerability scanning on push
- Secrets in AWS Secrets Manager — nothing hardcoded, ever
- CI/CD wired to your repo: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, or CodeBuild — via OIDC, zero static AWS keys
- Autoscaling, CloudWatch dashboard, and alarms we verify actually fire
- End-to-end smoke test before handover — you take over a system proven working, not a promise
- 1-hour recorded handover workshop, runbook + incident playbook
START SMALL
Foundation — €1,500, 5–10 business days.
€1,500 — fixed price, no T&M
Live in 5–10 business days
A clean, production-ready AWS foundation in your own account: network, identity, encryption, audit trail, alarms — all as code, all yours. It deploys no workload, and we say that up front. It’s not meant to. It’s the working slice of AWS you inspect, price, and decide on — before you sign yourself into the expensive, irreversible version.
- VPC across 2 Availability Zones — public, private, and database subnets
- IAM baseline: least-privilege roles, admin/deploy/readonly groups, root-MFA monitoring
- KMS customer-managed encryption keys
- CloudTrail audit trail with log file integrity validation
- CloudWatch billing and security alarms
- Everything as Terraform/Terragrunt code, committed to your repository
- End-to-end smoke test, 1-hour recorded handover workshop, runbook
The cheapest insurance against the most expensive mistake in this process.
Started with Foundation? Nothing is thrown away — Production Launch deploys onto exactly what you already have.
AWS Proof-of-Concept funding for Production Launch.
Most Production Launch projects qualify for AWS Proof-of-Concept funding — we check your eligibility for free and handle the application end-to-end.
You don’t fill in forms, chase program managers, or learn AWS’s funding vocabulary. You tell us about the workload; we prepare and file the application and deal with AWS.
Eligibility and amounts are determined by AWS. Applies to Production Launch projects.
Ask about funding eligibility →From kickoff to handover. Dates, not vibes.
Fixed timeline means we publish the steps and hold the deadline — buffer for your side's delays (access, approvals, scope questions) is already built in.
Foundation: 5–10 business days.
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Production Launch: 3–4 weeks.
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Foundation-ready in 5–10 days, or production-ready in a month. Compare that to the year you were about to commit.
What you walk away with.
The most expensive kind of vendor is the one you can’t leave. So we built Quick Start to be walk-away-able: everything we deliver lives in your AWS account and your repository, in standard open tooling.
- A deployed environment in your AWS account — foundation only, or foundation + live production workload
- All infrastructure as code — Terraform/Terragrunt, committed to your repository; state in your own encrypted, versioned bucket
- CI/CD pipeline definitions in your repo (Production Launch)
- Architecture diagram — PDF and the editable source
- Runbook + incident playbook — what to do at 3 a.m., written down
- Cost baseline summary — your expected AWS bill for these exact resources, not a brochure estimate
- Recorded 1-hour handover workshop — so the engineer you hire next year gets the same handover you did
What we keep: nothing.
No proprietary tooling. No agents phoning home. No license that expires. No retainer required for the environment to keep working. If we disappeared the day after handover, your infrastructure wouldn’t notice.
On handover day, your engineer can redeploy the whole thing without calling us. That's the acceptance test we hold ourselves to.
Who you're buying from.
AWS Advanced Partner
Advascale builds on AWS as an Advanced-tier partner. The templates behind Quick Start are engineered once and validated end-to-end.
Our AWS practice →
EU company
Advascale SIA, registered in Latvia. EU contract, EU invoicing, EU data-protection law by default.
About Advascale →
Listed on AWS Marketplace
“SMB AWS Quick Start” is listed on AWS Marketplace: same scope, same tiers — pricing via private offer, purchasable through your existing AWS billing if that’s how your procurement works.
Our production work is public: case studies →
Security isn't an add-on tier: encryption by default, tamper-evident audit trail, no static credentials — in both packages, at no extra line item.
Questions we actually get.
€1,500 for an environment with no workload running — what am I actually paying for?
You get the right to make a $20–30K decision on facts instead of a guess. The alternative is betting the $20–30K on a guess — or worse, buying hardware you can’t return. Foundation gives you a real, working, production-grade slice of AWS: you see the actual console, the actual security posture, the actual bill shape, and then decide. It is the cheapest insurance against the most expensive mistake in this whole process. And it isn’t a throwaway demo: it’s the exact base Production Launch deploys onto — nothing is thrown away.
We're already on AWS — can you fix our setup?
Honestly: that’s a different job, and pretending otherwise would waste your money. Quick Start is for greenfield — getting onto AWS cleanly the first time. If you’re already on AWS and the setup hurts, you want our Modernization package instead. Write us through the form below and say so in the “current setup” field; we’ll route you straight there instead of selling you the wrong thing.
How does the AWS funding actually work?
Most Production Launch projects qualify for AWS Proof-of-Concept funding — we check your eligibility for free and handle the application end-to-end. Funding is tied to actual AWS usage, which is why it applies to Production Launch — a running, billing workload. Eligibility and amounts are decided by AWS, not by us — which is exactly why we check before you commit, not after.
How soon can you start, and do the timelines hold?
Reply to the form and we’ll give you a concrete start date. The timelines hold because the scope is productized: we deploy from templates we’ve built and validated end-to-end, so your project is parameterisation, deployment, and proof — not invention. Buffer for the usual customer-side delays is already inside the 5–10 days and 3–4 weeks. The deadline we give you is the deadline you get.
What will my AWS bill actually be?
Depends on what you run, and anyone who quotes you a guaranteed number is guessing. What we can say without guessing: a Foundation environment idles around $80–95/month (mostly the NAT Gateways) — it deploys no workload, so nothing else is running up the meter. Either way, your exact cost baseline is a deliverable: the expected bill for every deployed resource, calculated for your deployment, in writing — not a landing-page estimate. Billing alarms are part of both tiers, so the first surprise never becomes a second one.
What do you need from us to start?
Very little. An AWS account (we help set up secure access at kickoff — a scoped read-only role plus a deployment role via OIDC trust; no shared credentials, no static keys). For Production Launch: your application — an existing Dockerfile is ideal, but we’ll advise on containerizing or Lambda packaging if you don’t have one — and a repo on GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket (CodeBuild also works). Optional: AWS IAM Identity Center (SSO) wiring on request. No AWS expertise required on your side — that’s what the handover workshop and runbook are for.
Do we need you after handover?
No — and that’s by design. Your team leaves the handover workshop able to operate and redeploy everything: the code is in your repo, the runbook and incident playbook are written for your on-call, and the workshop recording is there for whoever joins later. If you want us afterwards — for the next workload, a migration, or modernization — we’re easy to find. But needing us is not part of the product.
Get a start date, not an estimate.
Tell us where you stand — old hardware, a straining VPS, or a cloud plan you’re not sure about. One message, one reply from an engineer — not a sales sequence. You’ll get the tier that fits, a concrete kickoff date, and a straight answer — including “Quick Start isn’t the right fit” if it isn’t. The prices are already on this page; there’s nothing to negotiate and no call you have to survive first.
No newsletter, no drip campaign — a human reads this and replies with specifics.
Fixed scope. Fixed price. Fixed timeline. Advascale SIA — AWS Advanced Partner, EU (Latvia).
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