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Deep dives on AWS, Azure, networking, and AI — from our consultants to your team.

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AI-Powered SRE Operations with n8n and MCP

How an SRE team used n8n with New Relic MCP, CloudWatch MCP, and AWS Core MCP to automate incident triage and post-incident review generation, freeing engineers to focus on resilience improvements.

Case Study
n8n SRE MCP Incident Response Post-Incident Review Automation
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Automating Shard Provisioning with CircleCI Pipelines

How a SaaS company eliminated manual EC2, ECS, and RDS shard provisioning by wiring AWS CDK infrastructure stacks and Ansible configuration management into a single CircleCI pipeline, reducing deployment time from hours to minutes.

Case Study
CircleCI CI/CD AWS CDK TypeScript Ansible ECS RDS Automation
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Multi-Cloud Global Connectivity with AWS CloudWAN

How an organisation unified connectivity across 50+ AWS accounts and multiple regions using AWS CloudWAN, eliminating the operational nightmare of inter-region Transit Gateway peering and VPC sprawl.

Case Study
AWS CloudWAN Transit Gateway Multi-Region Networking
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Replacing Cisco AnyConnect with Cloudflare Zero Trust

How an enterprise replaced a legacy Cisco AnyConnect VPN running in us-east-1 with Cloudflare Zero Trust, using WARP and cloudflared to provide secure access to devices and outbound DLP filtering.

Case Study
Cloudflare Zero Trust VPN AnyConnect SASE Security
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Zero-Downtime Migration of Dual Data Centres to AWS

How an automotive marketplace migrated two colocation data centres to AWS in three months using VMware Cloud on AWS, then progressively converted VMs to EC2 and OpenShift to EKS, all with zero downtime.

Case Study
AWS VMware Cloud EKS EC2 Cloud Migration Lift and Shift