We help companies accelerate cloud native journey using The AK Way

Cloud native adoption is as much a people problem as much as tech. We aren't just hands-on keys, but help customers become end-to-end cloud native.

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Modern, cloud native practices should underpin all aspects of technology, spanning software, infrastructure and data, and are critical to an organisations ability to rapidly respond to opportunities or market shifts, e.g. AI adoption.

Our clients know that moving operations into the cloud is about more than migrating systems. 

  • It’s about supporting people in periods of (what can feel like ongoing) transition
  • It’s about supporting teams to implement and embed the right processes
  • It’s about choosing technologies and tools that can meet criteria ranging from business requirements and value, through to scalability and interoperability

We help our clients to navigate this complexity by building with them, not for them.

Done right, modern, cloud native engineering teams and cultures are:

  • More productive, quicker to market
  • Produce higher quality output/less outages/fails
  • Easier to hire into and have higher retention, higher perm ratios - happier places to work
  • Security can be automated, and everything is maintainable
  • Able to be relentlessly customer-focused

Our people are very experienced, cloud native practitioners, who specialise in taking companies on this journey. Combining deep technical skills/experience, evangelism and empathy, they are able to take diverse groups through complex change innovation.

What we do

We help you build, migrate and run cloud platforms, and build and run cloud native product teams.

Application modernisation

Application modernisation

For us, modernization is about transforming your practices and architecture to be truly cloud native and cloud first. We handle scaling and implementing with AWS so that your team can focus on driving your business forward.

Cloud native

Cloud native

The AK Way is foremost a way to adopt a cloud native mindset. Adopting cloud native practices helps your team innovate much faster. You achieve high resilience and scale as an added bonus of cloud native adoption.

Infrastructure & DevOps modernization

Infrastructure & DevOps modernization

We reduce inefficiencies by automating processes and cutting deployment risks. Starting with CI/CD and focusing on DORA metrics, we improve performance by integrating AWS and Infrastructure-as-Code, speeding up your time-to-market.

AWS foundations and migrations

AWS foundations and migrations

Migrating to the cloud will bring you security, reliability, scalability and flexibility. But to migrate successfully, you need the right strategy. By estimating the right workloads up front, you will have full insight to adopt cloud in a seamless and predictable way.

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AWS Certified Individuals

AWS Competencies

AWS partner network
Premier

Consulting Partner

  • Migration and Modernization Consulting Competency
  • SaaS Consulting Competency
  • DevOps Consulting Competency
  • Advertising and Marketing Technology Services Competency
AWS partner network
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Consulting Partner

  • Healthcare Consulting Competency
  • Data & Analytics Consulting Competency
  • Supply Chain Services Competency
  • Resilience Services Competency

AWS Service Validations

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  • Amazon ECS Delivery
  • AWS Config
  • AWS WAF Delivery
  • Amazon RDS Delivery
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  • Amazon DynamoDB Delivery
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service Delivery
  • Amazon API Gateway Delivery
  • AWS Lambda Delivery
Premier Tier Services
  • Amazon DynamoDB Delivery
  • Amazon OpenSearch Service Delivery
  • Amazon API Gateway Delivery
  • AWS Lambda Delivery
Premier Tier Services
  • AWS Control Tower Delivery
  • Amazon EC2 Systems Manager Delivery
  • AWS CloudFormation Delivery
  • Amazon CloudFront Delivery

Partner Programs

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APN Immersion Days
AWS Public Sector Partner
AWS Well-Architected Partner Program
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Our case studies

See how Armakuni Way has benefited these organisations

Process Up to 500 transactions a second concurrently

85%

Reduction in operational cost

Comic Relief

Zero-Downtime Cloud-Native Payments Platform

Comic Relief’s biggest technology risk transformed to the mundane, without missing a single donation. Achieving high availability with reactive microservices continuously deployed to multi-cloud Platform as a Service.

Deployed to multi-cloud Platform as a Service

Mundane, without missing a single donation

Embedded cloud-native practices across 20 cohorts and 400 engineers

Accelerated delivery of high-quality products with fewer flaws

Santander

High-Velocity Cloud-Native Engineering Workforce Transformation

Santander’s engineering teams transformed through the 'Engineering Way' into a high-velocity cloud-native force. Empowering rapid delivery of high-quality products with continuous & automated testing, increased innovation, and reduced risk.

Defined standards for high-velocity software delivery

Continuous testing to discard ideas faster

40%

Reduction in time-to-market

50%

Reduction in infrastructure costs

Fnality

Scalable Blockchain Payments Platform with Enhanced DevOps

Fnality’s blockchain payments platform underwent significant transformation by integrating cloud-native solutions and agile practices. This evolution resulted in high-quality outcomes and accelerated feature delivery.

30%

Improvement in code quality

Enhanced DevOps practices and cloud-native infrastructure

Zero downtime seamless migration

Fully automated, TDD, and pipelined environment provision

News UK

Migration of Critical Legacy Application to Kubernetes Platform

News UK transformed the legacy Grails app to modern Kubernetes platform, achieving streamlined, error-free processes. Leveraged containerization, Helm, ConfigMaps, and centralised secrets management for enhanced security and operational efficiency.

Cost savings by reducing bottlenecks and manual tasks

Automated security reduced the risk of manual intervention

30%

Increase in workloads managed

23%

Cost reduction with autoscaling

Auction Mobility

Multi-Tenant Platform with Seamless Real-Time Updates

Auction Mobility's multi-tenant platform was upgraded to handle real-time updates with high concurrency and low latency. Achieving remarkable scalability and cost optimization with cloud-native solutions.

Up to 500

Deployments per week

Optimised data management and disaster recovery

Customised migration plan with detailed assessment

One-third cost of alternative partner proposals

Digital.ai

Achieving Cloud-First Excellence with Rackspace to AWS Migration

After an extended struggle, Digital.ai successfully completed their cloud migration. Achieving greater agility and reduced costs, they upgraded their tech stack for faster innovation and better performance.

Mapping dependencies and infrastructure right-sizing

Achieved net-neutral migration costs by 2024

3X

Decrease in system downtime, enhancing overall reliability

40-50%

Reduction in development and staging infrastructure costs

CarSaver

Dynamic Marketplace Transformation with DevOps-Driven Efficiency

CarSaver’s system evolved into a highly efficient, multi-tenant marketplace with reduced costs and downtime. Achieved rapid provisioning and enhanced security

Faster provisioning with Infrastructure-as-Code principles

Efficient customer management and marketing with integrated tools

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How is Armakuni different?

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We show people what good looks like (because we have experienced it, many times). We put metrics on the landscape to help understand where we need to focus and demonstrate the change. We enable your people to deliver the change, through coaching and pair programming. Success for us is stepping back out of a modern cloud native engineering/technology/digital function.

What is Armakuni Way?

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The AK way is a collection of approaches for “delivery with engineering agility” that we have used for many years as a baseline when we are engaging with clients. It’s not meant to be a fixed approach model, nor is it the only way we work - as we all know, operating in the world of software is about adaptation and pragmatism - but these approaches have served us well across a range of industries, projects and engagements, and are constantly evolving. If the client/team/dept we are working with doesn’t have a practice in place for any of these practices, then we have something to fall back on.

What is Armakuni Insights?

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Many of our clients do not have the insights to help them really see what is going on within technology. A technology practice within an organisation is a function of its people, teams, organisational structures, leadership, technical direction and strategic direction. No 2 organisations are the same, and their ability to perform is dependant on so many intangible factors. We’ve created a series of exercises based on industry best practices to help you better articulate the true state of your team. By using a combination of quantitative, data-driven metrics, as well as qualitative insights, we provide your teams with a sense of their strengths and areas for improvement.

How will you work with us?

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Most of our engagements with clients are about helping them change how they deliver technology, whether helping with the adoption of scalable microservices, or building self serve infrastructure platforms. However, in the most part we are helping our clients adopt the mindset, practices and approaches that will enable this approach beyond our time onsite - modern, cloud native engineering practices. Alongside this, we enable the change of the technology function as a whole (structurally) and how the technology function interacts with the rest of the business - whether that’s with business functions, governance, audit/security and others. Below is a “typical” engagement model, but our approaches and modular/productised and so we often just do one part of this. Step 1 - Understand the landscape/topography In order to work with a client, we need to understand what is going on in their organisation, with an external focus/viewpoint. Step 2 - Start to plan the roadmap Once we have a view on where the organisation is at, we start to work with leadership on where they are trying to get to, aligning to the organisation strategy and/or the engineering/technology strategy, and build out a roadmap. Step 3 - Educate In an ideal world, the entirety of the (technology) organisation understands what we are trying to achieve. Typically we find that there is a lot of “unconscious incompetence” - ie people don’t know what the don’t know - so we run sessions/workshops to demonstrate hands on what good looks like. This aligns the whole organisation to the approaches and mindset that we are trying to distil into the teams - and “should” create a sense of desire around that end goal. Step 4 - Start to drive change This can take many forms, but all are based around coaching individuals or teams through the change. Example: An Engineering Accelerator: we embed a pair of experienced practitioners into a team to coach and pair (rotating round your team) for 3 months, shaping that team into a modern cloud native engineering mindset and ensuring that the practices are embedded and desired by the team, not a chore. Step 5 - Observe, Orientate, Decide, Act Constant observation, sensing of what is working, what is not, learning and adapting as we go.

How do you measure business outcomes?

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At a technology/implementation level, Armakuni uses the Dora research and metrics, based on over 12 years of surveys, research and data collation, to benchmark and guide technology performance metrics to business outcomes. We combine this with our Engineering Insights which helps us look at broader environmental metrics - capabilities, approaches, psychological safety, cognitive load - all significant factors in a function's ability to respond to business/organisational needs. At a more holistic/contextual level, we identify the symptoms/issues that the broader business is experiencing and tie these back to the metrics we gather so we can demonstrate change over time.

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Growth Street

We are a small team and we want to keep our software engineers focused on product development. With AK we were able to ring fence the whole project and hand it over. Although the problem required a bespoke solution it didn’t feel difficult. The whole platform was designed, built, and managed with minimum input required from us

Greg Hinch
Greg Hinch

Head of Product, Growth Street

Daisie

Armakuni exemplify best practice. Our team is more confident, more effective and more knowledgeable thanks to our engagement with them.

Chris Bond
Chris Bond

Head of Engineering, Daisie

News UK

Armakuni made a significant impact. While they improved team productivity and quality, what stood out was their in-depth assessment of our engineering capability. Their report highlighted key risks we hadn't identified and guided our strategic decisions for years.

Armakuni is a professional and skilled consultancy in a field crowded with less reliable players.

Christina Scott
Christina Scott

CIO, News UK

Comic Relief

When I was COO of Comic Relief, I faced significant technology challenges, including outdated donation processes. I commissioned Armakuni to build a state-of-the-art donation platform, and they exceeded expectations. Delivered on time and within budget, the platform contributed to Comic Relief surpassing £100m in donations for the first time. Their work remains vital to this day.

I highly recommend Armakuni.

Derek Gannon
Derek Gannon

COO, Comic Relief

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