Website / Application Migration to AWS
Moved onto AWS with the cutover rehearsed, the DNS planned, and the old host still standing.
From $459 2–5 days
Go-Live / Cutover Support
A booked window with someone watching, a rollback prepared, and a decision point agreed in advance.
Price and scope
From $349
Typically $349–$899, fixed in writing before anything starts.
What moves it up
- A weekend or overnight window, which is charged at the out-of-hours rate
- A rehearsal beforehand, which is usually worth more than the window itself
- Several systems cutting over together, where the order and the dependencies matter
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What actually goes wrong
Cutovers go wrong on the decision, not on the steps. The plan says what to do and says nothing about when to stop — so at 2am, forty minutes into a ninety-minute window, with one thing not quite working, somebody has to decide whether to push on or roll back. That decision gets made by whoever is most tired and most invested, which is the worst possible person, and it is nearly always "give it another twenty minutes" — repeated until the window is gone and rolling back is no longer possible either.
How I find it
The rollback executed in a rehearsal, timed, so the window includes the time to undo itA go/no-go checkpoint set at a clock time agreed before anyone is tiredTTLs lowered and confirmed expired in advance, not on the nightA checklist with an owner per step, so nobody is waiting on somebody who thought you had it
What you get
- A written runbook with the steps, the owners and the point after which rollback stops being possible
- A rehearsed rollback, with its own duration measured and built into the window
- A go/no-go decision time fixed in advance, and I will call it even when it is unwelcome
- Monitoring watched during and after, so the verdict is data rather than "it looks fine"
- A short written record afterwards of what happened and what to change next time
Questions
Do you work weekends and nights for this?
Yes, for a booked window agreed in advance — that is what this exists for, and it is charged at the out-of-hours rate. What I do not offer is unscheduled night cover, which is a different thing and needs a team.
What happens if we have to roll back?
We roll back, at the time we agreed, and nobody has to argue about it at 2am — which is the entire value of setting that time while everyone is rested. A rollback inside the window is a successful outcome, not a failed one.
Can you run the cutover, or only supervise?
Either. Some clients want their own team executing with me watching and making the call; others want me driving with theirs on standby. Both work — what does not work is leaving it unclear until the night, so it gets decided in the runbook.
Is this worth it if the change is small?
Often not, and I will say so. A small change with an easy rollback does not need a booked window and a second pair of eyes. This is for the ones where undoing it is hard, or where several things move at once.
If this is not quite it
Emergency AWS Incident Response
Something is down, burning money or possibly compromised. A flat triage fee, then hourly.
$249 Same day–2 days
Want this done?
Tell me what you are running and I will come back with a fixed price and a date. If it turns out you do not need this, I will say that instead.
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Before you enquire
When I answer
Sunday to Thursday, 09:00–18:00 EET. Outside that I will still look, but I will not promise a time.
No 24/7 desk, and I will not pretend otherwise
One person, one time zone. If round-the-clock cover is what you need, you need a team, and I will say so rather than sell you a plan that cannot deliver it.
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