Work with the business
Engineers sit with the people who own the process, to understand the problem, the constraints and what success looks like.
Beyond the architecture diagram.
CloudStraight joins architecture and execution, and works with you to get solutions into production. We have worked this way since 2019. Forward Deployed Engineering is the name many people now recognise for it.
Most AWS projects don’t fail at design. They fail at execution. Architectures look perfect on paper, then reality hits. Many engagements stop at the architecture handoff, and design and execution end up disconnected.
CloudStraight works differently. We don’t deliver a design and leave. Our architects stay close to implementation, validate designs in your real environment and help build through to production. Today the approach has a name many people recognise: Forward Deployed Engineering. The name is a useful signpost. The proof is the work itself.
There are two ways to work with us.
We build it. End-to-end AWS delivery by a single accountable engineering team, from architecture through implementation to production.
We build it together. We co-engineer with your internal team, with knowledge transfer built in and your team staying in control.
Different engagement models, one engineering standard.
Where projects fail: execution
IAM complexity appears
Permissions and access patterns are harder than expected.
Networking assumptions break
Connectivity, routing and boundaries do not behave in real life as they did on paper.
Scaling behaves differently
Performance and costs shift under real workloads.
Integrations do not align with reality
Dependencies, data flows and third-party systems complicate everything.
Migrations stall or go off track
Unplanned complexity leads to delays, scope creep and budget overruns.
Systems work in test, not in production
Edge cases, failure scenarios and scale expose hidden gaps.
What embedded engineering covers
Prototype quickly
Test ideas against your real data and systems early, so decisions rest on evidence.
Integrate with your systems
Connect solutions to the applications, data and identity systems your business already runs on.
Deploy into production
Release with security, monitoring and clear ownership in place.
Improve from real use
Measure what happens after go-live and refine the solution based on it.
Transfer knowledge
Leave your team with the understanding and standards to run and extend what we build together.
How we work
Understand the context
Business and technical, with the people who own the process.
Design with implementation in mind
We only design what we are confident we can build.
Validate in real environments
Prototypes, technical validation and risk analysis in real conditions, before the architecture is approved.
Build, test and iterate
Alongside your team, in your environment.
Run and improve
We stay through go-live and keep improving from what real usage shows.
How we work with your team
One team
Your stakeholders and our engineers work toward one defined outcome.
One engineering standard
The same standards apply whether we build it or build it together.
Your team stays in control
Decisions about your systems and data remain yours.
Security and operations from day one
Access, monitoring and ownership are designed in, not added at the end.
Related services
- Migration & ModernisationMove workloads to AWS and modernise them where it pays off, from single applications to entire estates.
- Agentic AI & AI AgentsEnterprise AI agents on AWS, integrated with your systems, with controlled tool use, evaluation, security, human oversight and operational monitoring.
- Managed ServicesCloudStraight operates, monitors and continuously improves your cloud and AI workloads, with proactive support, security and reporting.
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