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Dedicated AWS engineers

Hire AWS developers who can explain the bill, not just the architecture diagram.

Need an AWS engineer for a Laravel or Node product already on Amazon, or to land there without a mystery bill? DayDecoder’s founder is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. You get overlap hours for the US, UK, Europe and Australia, and you own the infrastructure-as-code we write.

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What our AWS developers do on a product.

This is not a “we clicked EC2 once” page. It is a hire who can land a PHP or Node app on AWS, keep it boring, and talk about Cost Explorer without shame.

Public work lists AWS (and AWS S3) on several products, including the credit-card bill payments platform, enterprise ecommerce, and other Laravel apps that store files and run workers in Amazon accounts. Typical work is S3 for uploads, RDS or a managed database, queues, CloudFront in front of public assets, and IAM that is not a single god key on a laptop. We also run a cloud cost optimisation practice — right-sizing, idle cleanup, Savings Plans — because an AWS hire who ignores the bill is a liability.

If you need Kubernetes, we will ask why. EKS is in scope when the workload needs it; it is not a default for a single Laravel API. If you need a one-off cost audit rather than a dedicated engineer, the cloud cost page is the better door. This page is for ongoing AWS capacity inside a product team.

  • Landing a product on AWS

    VPC, RDS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS or a small EC2+ALB setup that matches the app. Chosen because it fits, not because it is on a certification slide.

  • CI/CD and environments

    Staging that resembles production, migrations that run on deploy, and secrets that are not in the repo. GitHub Actions or the pipeline you already have.

  • Files, queues, email, CDN

    S3, SQS or Redis workers, SES when email is in AWS, CloudFront for public assets. The same shapes as our Laravel case studies.

  • Cost-aware operations

    Budgets, right-sizing, lifecycle rules on S3, and a monthly look at Cost Explorer. No invented savings percentages on this page.

Skills and tool stack

AWS services we actually operate.

The founder’s AWS Certified Solutions Architect credential is from 2024. The work is the ordinary production set, not every SKU in the console.

You should expect fluency in IAM, VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, and the cost tools listed on our cloud cost page (Cost Explorer, Budgets, Compute Optimizer, Trusted Advisor). Container work when the product needs it. We will not enable a new AWS product because a blog post was excited about it last week.

Compute & delivery

  • EC2
  • ALB
  • ECS / Fargate when earned
  • Elastic Beanstalk
  • Lambda for glue, not as a hidden monolith

Data & files

  • RDS (MySQL / PostgreSQL)
  • S3
  • ElastiCache / Redis
  • SQS

Edge & ops

  • CloudFront
  • Route 53
  • CloudWatch
  • IAM, Secrets Manager

Cost

  • Cost Explorer
  • Budgets
  • Compute Optimizer
  • Savings Plans / RIs when usage is steady

Engagement models

Dedicated AWS time, a part-time cloud seat, or hourly firefighting.

A product that lives on AWS usually wants a recurring owner. A single misconfigured bucket can be hourly — once.

Dedicated full-time AWS developer

Owns environments, deploys, observability and the bill. Makes sense when cloud work is weekly, not a ticket every quarter.

Part-time dedicated

A few days a week beside your backend team: hardening, cost reviews, and the next environment. Common for a Laravel squad that should not also be on-call for IAM.

Hourly AWS help

A public bucket, a failed deploy, a surprise invoice line. Time-logged. A “quick look” that becomes a migration will be scoped as one.

Hiring process

How an AWS hire joins your account.

We prefer a dedicated IAM user or role with least privilege, not the root login in a password manager screenshot.

  1. 1

    Read-only first

    The intro call plus, if you want, read-only billing and config. We will not demand AdministratorAccess to say hello.

  2. 2

    Written AWS proposal

    Dedicated, part-time or hourly, and whether the first month is landing, hardening, or cost. Linked to the cloud cost audit if that is the real need.

  3. 3

    Least-privilege access

    A role scoped to the accounts we will touch. MFA. No shared root. Infrastructure changes in git when we write them.

  4. 4

    First reversible change

    A budget alarm, a lifecycle rule, a staging parity fix. Proof we can change the account without folklore.

  5. 5

    Weekly ops demo

    What changed, what it cost, what is still noisy. In your overlap hours, with screenshots from your account, not ours.

AWS operations across US, UK, EU and Australian hours.

Deploys and incident calls sit in overlap: afternoon for the UK and Europe, a late window for US East, early for Australia. Patch windows are written down. We will not bounce RDS in the middle of your Friday demo unless you asked.

Amazon’s own status is global; your users are not. If the product is US-only, we treat US hours as the constraint. If you sell in several regions, we talk about where the app and the data live before we add another AZ “for luck”.

  • United States

    Morning updates waiting in your inbox when the US workday starts.

  • United Kingdom

    Same-day overlap for calls, reviews, and decisions.

  • Europe

    Afternoon overlap with Central and Eastern European teams.

  • Australia

    Early-morning calls that fit the Australian workday.

Why hire AWS developers from DayDecoder.

Certification on the founder, production Laravel apps already on AWS, and a cost practice that refuses fake savings numbers.

  • Architect-level certification, still in the console

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect, 2024. The same person is on the call and in the account — not a partner logo farm.

  • Product context, not a ticket queue

    We already know how Laravel queues, S3 and RDS show up in the apps we ship. Fewer “what is this worker?” meetings.

  • Cost without theatre

    The cloud cost page lists tools and a process. We will not put “save 60%” on a hire page. Your bill is your bill until we have read it.

  • You own the account

    AWS organisations stay in your name. IaC we write is yours after payment. We are not a reseller sitting between you and Amazon.

Relevant work

Products we have run with AWS in the stack.

Case studies and projects that list AWS or AWS S3. Client names stay confidential. Architecture notes do not.

Restaurants, POS & hospitality Web, POS terminals, iOS & Android

Cloud POS & Business Management Suite for Restaurants and Retail

A multi-location point of sale and business management platform for restaurants, cafes and retail stores: fast checkout at the counter, table bookings, inventory, purchasing, staff and reports in one web app, with companion apps for terminals, kiosks and handheld devices.

Laravel MySQL Laravel Passport Pusher
Read case study : Cloud POS & Business Management Suite for Restaurants and Retail
Fintech & payments Web, iOS & Android

Credit Card Bill Payments & Card Comparison Platform for a Fintech Startup

A consumer fintech platform for paying bills and recharges from a credit card, moving wallet money to cards, banks and UPI, and comparing credit cards with calculators and eligibility tools, delivered as a website, an admin panel and a React Native app.

Laravel MySQL Redis AWS
Read case study : Credit Card Bill Payments & Card Comparison Platform for a Fintech Startup
Fintech & payments Web

Insurance Plan Comparison & Quote Platform

An insurance comparison website where visitors answer a few questions, see matching auto, health and home plans for their ZIP code, and request quotes, with a full admin for plans, carriers, content and leads.

Laravel MySQL AWS jQuery DataTables
Read case study : Insurance Plan Comparison & Quote Platform
Business automation & CRM Web

Multi-tenant Customer & Legal Entity Management Platform

A multi-tenant business platform for managing customers, their legal entities, contacts, addresses and files, with roles, permissions and an audit log, built as a Laravel API with a Vue 3 front end.

Laravel PostgreSQL Vue 3 Laravel Sanctum
Read case study : Multi-tenant Customer & Legal Entity Management Platform

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The founder holds AWS Certified Solutions Architect (2024) and leads cloud work personally. The dedicated engineer on your account is staffed from that practice, not from an anonymous bench.

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