Tidora · Tallinn — senior crew, production AWS
For companies that can’t afford to get it wrong — Tidora is a boutique AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner and GitLab partner. One senior team for secure cloud platforms and modern software delivery, from first roadmap to the pager.
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A boutique cloud team helping Baltic and CEE innovators migrate and scale with confidence.
Stencilled on the side of every engagement: the number that moved, and what moved it.
Lower AWS costs after right-sizing, modernization and FinOps governance.
Cutover downtime target for carefully planned cloud and GitLab migrations.
Faster software delivery with GitLab CI/CD, IaC, Kubernetes and platform engineering.
Managed cloud operations available for production AWS and Kubernetes environments.
59°26′N 24°45′E
A harbor is deep water, working cranes, and a berth with your name on it. For companies that run on AWS, that is what we keep open.
Five lines of work. Each one scoped, staffed and signed — pick a berth.
Secure, scalable, production-grade AWS environments — designed, built and modernized by senior engineers.
Faster, safer software delivery on GitLab — resale, implementation, migration and developer-platform engineering.
Practical AI engineering on solid cloud foundations — built into real products, not slide decks.
Better commercial terms backed by senior cloud engineering — not a discount-only relationship.
Reliable day-to-day operation of AWS, Kubernetes and GitLab-based delivery environments — senior engineers on the pager.
SLAs are written into the MSA, not the brochure.
Every engagement has a written success criterion agreed in week one. If we miss it for reasons within our control, we extend the engagement at our cost until it is met. This clause is in the contract, not a sales line.
A structured path from first roadmap to steady-state operations — fixed phases, named owners, no surprises.
Two weeks. We read your architecture, your bill, and your incidents. You get a target architecture, ADRs, and a sequenced roadmap — defended in one readout.
Landing zone, IaC, pipelines — built by the pod, demoed weekly, no clickops.
We take the pager, or we hand it over — 30-day shadow period, runbooks and dashboards included.
“Tech scale-up cut migration downtime from days to minutes — unlocking 30% faster feature delivery.”
What we shipped, who shipped it, and the number that moved.
Re-platformed a sprawling EC2 estate to ECS Fargate with right-sized RDS, savings plans, and a strict tagging contract. Eight-week program, two cutover windows, zero customer-visible incidents.
One pod, one weekend cutover, full Terraform handover. They kept their CI green the whole time.
Introduced SLOs, blameless post-mortems, and a real on-call rotation. Migrated logs to CloudWatch + OpenSearch. The on-call engineer now sleeps through the night.
Four shapes of contract. Fixed scope or named engineers on the pager — nothing in between.
A two-week sprint that ends with a defended target architecture and a sequenced roadmap.
Book the assessmentOne defined workstream — built, shipped and handed over. Fixed price, fixed deliverables, signed SOW.
Scope a projectA pod of senior engineers embeds with your team and delivers waved cutovers without freezing your roadmap.
Scope a programWe run AWS for you. Named engineers, 15-min P1 response, monthly reviews, full audit trail.
Talk retainerDocumentation, Terraform, runbooks, and dashboards stay with you — they were always yours.
Six names. No bench, no juniors, no subcontracted on-call.
Rotation staffed from Tallinn & Riga · EET (UTC+2/+3)
The questions a skeptical CTO asks before the first call — answered the way we answer on the call.
Default deployment region is eu-central-1 (Frankfurt) or eu-north-1 (Stockholm). Tidora is GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001 in progress, and we sign DPAs and SCCs as standard. We never copy customer data out of the customer account.
Managed retainers carry a 15-minute P1 acknowledgement during EU business hours and 30 minutes on the 24/7 add-on. P1 = customer-impacting outage on a production workload we operate. SLAs are written into the MSA, not the brochure.
Every engagement has a written success criterion agreed in week one. If we miss it for reasons within our control, we extend the engagement at our cost until it is met. This clause is in the contract, not a sales line.
AWS is our primary cloud platform — that’s where we hold our Advanced Partner status and where we lead green-field work. We will integrate with workloads sitting in Azure or GCP, but we do not lead green-field projects on those platforms. Our GitLab practice runs across whichever cloud the customer prefers.
Yes — repository and pipeline migrations are core GitLab practice work for us: CI/CD conversion, runner architecture, and developer-platform setup, with cutovers planned in waves so delivery never stops. We also handle GitLab licensing and resale.
60-day notice after the 12-month minimum. Exit includes a 30-day shadow period where your team takes the pager, with us on Slack. Documentation, Terraform, runbooks, and dashboards stay with you — they were always yours.
senior engineers on the pager
Dispatch office · intro call
You bring the problem and the constraints. We bring an opinion, a sketch, and an honest estimate. If we are not the right fit we will say so on the call.
You will hear a ballpark on the first call, not after three meetings.