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AWS Premier Partner · Managed Services

Most managed services keep the lights on.|We make the lights brighter.

Armakuni Managed Services is four engineering practices on one retainer: Automation, Observability, Cost, Quality. Your AWS bill goes down. Your DORA metrics go up. Your team learns the practices by working alongside ours.

We don't keep the lights on. We make the lights brighter.

Trusted by teams shipping on AWS

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The Core Insight

The bill went up.|The practices that would have stopped it never landed.

Most managed services teams optimise inside the existing engineering practices. Armakuni replaces the practices. Automation reduces toil. Observability cuts MTTR. Cost discipline shrinks the bill. Quality discipline keeps deploys safe. Four practices, one retainer, measurable outcomes.

95%
Faster Lead Time

Median lead-time-for-changes reduction across recent Managed Services engagements. DORA-tracked, sprint-by-sprint.

Armakuni MS outcomes
70%
Faster Recovery

Median time-to-recovery reduction. Observability instrumentation lands in week one. By week eight, MTTR has dropped.

Armakuni MS outcomes
40%
Bill Reduction

Median first-quarter AWS bill reduction. FinOps instrumentation, right-sizing, savings-plan tuning. Per-team attribution surfaced to the CFO.

Armakuni FinOps
The Reframe

Most MSPs sell you a queue and a ticket.|We sell you the engineering practice that closes the queue.

Armakuni Managed Services lands four AK Way practices on your retainer: Automation cuts the toil that fills the queue. Observability lets your team find the cause without paging the supplier. Cost discipline reverses the bill drift. Quality discipline keeps the deploys you ship safe.

The practices are infrastructure you keep. Runbooks, dashboards, IaC, on-call rotation, post-mortem templates. Deployed into your AWS account under your IAM, your governance, your audit trail. When the retainer ends, your team has the playbook.

AK Way Managed

Four engineering practices.|Each maps to a measurable shift in operational metrics.

AK Way Managed is what an MSP looks like when engineering practice is the product, not staffing. Four practices, one retainer, sprint-by-sprint DORA tracking.

Automated quality gates
Clean architecture
Observability
Boundary controls
DORA metrics
Practice 01

Automation

Toil is the work that fills the queue. Automation removes it. Runbooks become Step Functions. Tickets become triggers. Every recurring intervention gets automated by week four.

Practice 02

Observability

Your team can't fix what they can't see. Observability instruments every service in week one. CloudWatch, X-Ray, custom dashboards per team. MTTR drops because the investigation step disappears.

Practice 03

Cost Discipline

AWS bills drift up unless someone is watching. Armakuni FinOps lands per-team attribution, right-sizing recommendations, savings plan tuning, anomaly alerts. The CFO gets a monthly view of who spent what.

Practice 04

Quality Discipline

Every deploy carries a regression risk. Quality practice lands change-failure tracking, canary patterns, automated rollback, post-mortem culture. Quality goes up. Deploy frequency goes up. Both at the same time.

What the Retainer Includes

Four practices on AWS-native primitives. Your team learns the ones they didn't already know on the way in.

The retainer wires AWS primitives you are already paying for into one operational surface. No new runtime. No new vendor. The practices are the product.

Automated Runbooks
Automated Runbooks

Step Functions encoding the runbooks. Lambda for the actions. Every recurring intervention automated.

Automation
CloudWatch + X-Ray
CloudWatch + X-Ray

Observability across every service. Custom dashboards per team. MTTR drops because investigation disappears.

Observability
AWS FinOps + Cost Explorer
AWS FinOps + Cost Explorer

Per-team cost attribution. Right-sizing recommendations. Savings plan tuning. Monthly CFO report.

Cost discipline
CodeDeploy + CodePipeline
CodeDeploy + CodePipeline

Canary deployments by default. Automated rollback on observability signal. Change-failure tracked sprint-by-sprint.

Quality discipline
Bedrock + GuardDuty + Config
Bedrock + GuardDuty + Config

Continuous compliance evidence. Drift detection. Per-control AWS Config rules. Audit Manager-ready.

Compliance
Q Developer Operations
Q Developer Operations

AI-assisted incident triage and runbook generation. The retainer team uses it. Your team learns to use it.

AI-assisted ops
The Armakuni team demonstrated an impressive ability to earn customer trust and deliver against lofty expectations with the customer C-Suite. Ruben and team maintained consistent communication with the customer, even after initial projects were put on hold for half a year.
David Nacson · AWS Account Manager · DigitalChalk
What customers say

Engineering discipline applied across every offering.

Here's what it built.

Comic Relief
Modernization
Live BBC donation platform.

Armakuni was a game-changer for Comic Relief; they built us a new donation platform, on time and on budget while also helping us break the GBP 100 million mark for the first time.
HSBC
Cloud Native Delivery
Global banking, delivered cloud-native at scale.

HSBC adopted cloud-native delivery through the AK Way. Automated pipelines, continuous testing, and engineering discipline applied at global-bank scale.
JPMorgan Chase
Enterprise Banking
Global investment and commercial banking on AWS.

JPMorgan Chase is one of five of the world's largest financial institutions Armakuni has delivered AWS engineering work for. Proof the AK Way holds at systemically important scale.
Red Bull
Media & Entertainment
Global sports and media brand, engineered for scale.

Red Bull is part of Armakuni's media and entertainment portfolio. Proof the AK Way extends beyond financial services into global consumer brands.
Ryno Strategic Solutions
AI Transformation
Home services marketing intelligence, built on AWS.

Ryno's internal team had already tried and failed to reach production quality on AI call analysis. Armakuni's PoC was production-ready in under two weeks of a four-week window.
Santander
Engineering Transformation
Global retail and commercial banking, engineered the AK Way.

Santander transformed its engineering teams through "The Engineering Way." Everything as code, automated testing, and a high-velocity cloud-native delivery force built on the AK Way.
Hyundai Glovis
Pods
Real-time vehicle-tracking platform for finished-vehicle logistics.

45% increase in on-time vehicle deliveries, replacing a reactive model where delays were only discovered after they'd already cost the customer.
The Payoff · Retainer Quarter Timeline

One quarter to four practices live.|DORA metrics moving from week one.

Median outcomes across recent Managed Services engagements where teams ran the four AK Way practices on the Armakuni retainer.

Week 1
Observability live
Dashboards instrumented, baseline measured
Week 4
Automation shipping
First runbooks converted to Step Functions
Week 8
FinOps active
Per-team attribution + first cost-saves
Week 12
DORA lift visible
Lead time, MTTR, deploy freq all moving
How the Retainer Works

Two engagement shapes.|Pick the one that matches your operational maturity.

Full retainer · Quarterly

AK Way Managed (Full)

Four practices, one retainer team, embedded in your AWS account. Automation, Observability, Cost, Quality. DORA metrics tracked sprint-by-sprint and reported to the CFO. Full AK Way playbook transferred to your team over twelve weeks.

Output: a working operational practice in your AWS account, with your engineers operating it.

Compass scan: codebase assessment across 5 layers

What AK Way Managed (Full) delivers

Four practices, one bill. Automation, Observability, Cost, Quality. No add-on SOW for each.
DORA-tracked. Lead time, change-failure rate, MTTR, deploy frequency. Reported to your CFO every month.
Yours after the retainer. Runbooks, dashboards, IaC, on-call rotation, post-mortem templates. All transferred to your team.
Single-practice engagement · 6-12 weeks

AK Way Managed (Practice)

Pick one practice. Land it on a fixed-scope engagement. FinOps for the bill that's drifting. Observability for the MTTR that won't come down. Quality for the regression rate. Each practice runs as a six-to-twelve week scoped sprint.

Output: one practice live in your AWS account, plus the path to add the other three.

Evolve: governed agentic modernization with orchestration layer

What AK Way Managed (Practice) delivers

Fixed scope, fixed price. No retainer commitment. Land one practice, see the result, decide on the next.
Practice-as-product. Each practice ships with playbook, dashboards, IaC. The artefacts stay regardless of what comes next.
Path to full retainer. Single-practice engagements convert to full retainer with prior work credited.
Workshops · Try the practice before the retainer

Two workshops, half day each.|See an AK Way practice run on your real AWS account.

FinOps workshop
FinOps Workshop

Half-day workshop on your real AWS bill. Per-team attribution, right-sizing analysis, savings plan recommendations. Walk away with a sized opportunity for first-quarter cost reduction.

Half dayFree
HALF DAYFREEON YOUR AWS ACCOUNT
Observability workshop
Observability Workshop

Half-day workshop instrumenting one of your services with the AK Way observability stack. CloudWatch, X-Ray, custom dashboards. Walk away with the service instrumented and your team trained.

Half dayFree
HALF DAYFREEHANDS-ON
Recent Results

Retainers that moved DORA metrics.|Three customers. Specific outcomes.

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Named on the SOW. Specialized where it matters.

Active AWS competencies and service-delivery designations behind modernization work.

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Common questions

What CIOs ask before booking a Discovery Sprint.

How long is a typical engagement?
Compass is two to three weeks at a fixed fee, scoped on portfolio size. Evolve is eight to twelve weeks at fixed scope per workload. Most customers run Compass standalone first, commit to Evolve once the roadmap is in hand.
What does the team shape look like?
Evolve runs as a five-to-seven-person pod: solution architect, two senior engineers, an AI/agent specialist, and an AK Way practice owner. Sized to your codebase complexity, not bench utilization.
Do we need to already be on AWS?
No. Compass runs against any cloud or on-premise stack. Evolve targets AWS for the agentic orchestration layer (Bedrock, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch), but the assessment itself is cloud-agnostic.
How does pricing work?
Compass is fixed fee, scoped on portfolio size. Evolve is fixed scope per workload, MAP-eligible. AWS Migration Acceleration Program funding typically offsets a meaningful share of engagement cost.
What does success look like?
Median outcomes across recent Evolve engagements: 60 percent faster deployment by week four, two-point-one million dollars in first-year savings by week eight, four-point-two times deploy frequency by exit. Tracked against your baseline DORA metrics from day one.
Discovery

Book an ops review with an engineer.|Two hours, on your real AWS account.

Two-hour ops review where an Armakuni engineer audits your AWS bill, observability posture, and DORA metrics. We propose a single-practice engagement (FinOps, Observability, Automation, or Quality) sized to your shape.

For your CTO/COO
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Your first conversation is with the solution architect who would run the engagement.