Folio I · Plate II II Practices · VIII Disciplines Last revised — MMXXVI
Plate II · Disciplines

Two practices.
VIII disciplines.

I — AWS Cloud Practice I · Plates I–IV

Architecture, migration, and the long operate.

AWS engagements designed to grow with the business and survive the audit. From greenfield landing zones to migrations spanning hundreds of workloads — every plate is an answer to a specific class of problem.

I Plate I
— New Build · AWS

Greenfield Infrastructure

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

Starting fresh? We architect cloud environments from the ground up, designed with best practices baked in from day one. No technical debt, no shortcuts — clean, well-structured infrastructure built to grow with your business.

  • AWS Landing Zone and multi-account structure
  • Network topology: VPC design, Transit Gateway, CIDR strategy
  • Security baseline: IAM Identity Center, SCPs, GuardDuty
  • Well-Architected foundations across all six pillars
  • Full IaC implementation — Terraform or AWS CDK
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II Plate II
— Hybrid · Connectivity

Hybrid Environments

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

For organizations that live between on-premises and the cloud, we design and manage hybrid architecture that bridges both worlds. Your legacy systems and your cloud workloads work in harmony — not in conflict.

  • AWS Direct Connect and Site-to-Site VPN design
  • Workload placement strategy — what stays on-premises and why
  • Hybrid identity: Active Directory integration with AWS IAM
  • Latency and performance assessment across the hybrid boundary
  • Disaster recovery design spanning both environments
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III Plate III
— Migration · AWS

Cloud Migration

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

We guide organizations through the full migration journey — from assessment and planning to execution and optimization. Whether lifting and shifting or re-architecting entirely, the transition is smooth, secure, and minimally disruptive.

  • Application dependency mapping and migration wave planning
  • Migration strategy: rehost, replatform, or re-architect
  • Cutover execution with rollback procedure at every stage
  • Post-migration validation and performance baseline
  • Cost model comparison: pre- and post-migration spend
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IV Plate IV
— Multi-Cloud · Strategy

Multi-Cloud

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

We help businesses harness the strengths of multiple cloud providers without chaos. Zynostack designs and manages multi-cloud strategies that eliminate vendor lock-in and maximize performance across your entire cloud estate.

  • Provider selection framework — matched to workload requirements
  • Cross-cloud networking and identity strategy
  • Unified observability across all providers
  • Cost management and visibility across the full estate
  • Portability design: avoid lock-in at the architecture layer
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II — DevOps Practice II · Plates V–VIII

The connective tissue between code and production.

Pipelines, containers, IaC, and configuration — operated as a discipline, not a side project. Every plate is what we run for ourselves, lightly opinionated and built to be inherited.

V Plate V
— Delivery · Automation

CI/CD Pipelines

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

We design and implement continuous integration and delivery pipelines that accelerate release cycles while maintaining quality and control. Ship faster, break less, recover instantly.

  • Pipeline design: source → build → test → deploy with quality gates
  • AWS CodePipeline, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI — matched to your stack
  • Automated testing: unit, integration, and security scanning
  • Deployment strategies: blue/green, canary, rolling — with rollback
  • Metrics and observability for every stage of the pipeline
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VI Plate VI
— Kubernetes · Docker

Containers & Orchestration

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

From containerizing workloads to managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters, we bring order to complexity. Practical, operable, and built to last.

  • Container strategy: Docker image design, registry, and lifecycle
  • EKS cluster design: node groups, networking, autoscaling
  • Helm chart design and GitOps deployment with ArgoCD or Flux
  • Service mesh design for inter-service communication
  • Cluster hardening: RBAC, pod security standards, image scanning
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VII Plate VII
— Terraform · CDK · IaC

Infrastructure as Code

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

We treat infrastructure the same way great developers treat software — versioned, tested, and repeatable. Using Terraform and AWS CloudFormation, we eliminate manual provisioning and bring full lifecycle control to your environments.

  • Terraform module design: reusable, composable, environment-agnostic
  • State management: remote state, locking, and workspace strategy
  • IaC testing: policy-as-code with Sentinel or OPA
  • Drift detection and remediation pipeline
  • Migration of existing manual infrastructure into IaC — no disruption
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VIII Plate VIII
— Ansible · Config Mgmt

Configuration as Code

Domain owner · senior engineer
Single point of accountability

Consistency across environments is not optional in a mature engineering culture. Every server and service behaves exactly as intended — every time.

  • Ansible playbook design: idempotent, role-based, environment-aware
  • Configuration drift detection and automated remediation
  • Secrets management: AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault
  • OS hardening: CIS benchmark alignment, patch management
  • Configuration testing pipeline: Molecule or equivalent
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Plate IX · Engagement Three shapes a brief can take

One discipline,
or a longer arc.