We are a Portland, Maine–based AWS consulting team. You work directly with engineers—not a sales layer.
Solutions Architects and practitioners who live in the AWS console daily.
Based in Portland, ME with East Coast hours and clear communication.
Runbooks, documentation, and knowledge transfer so improvements stick.
Feedback from teams we've partnered with. Names withheld where clients prefer discretion—references available on request.
“They spoke like engineers, not salespeople. We had a migration plan we could actually execute—and our team understood every step.”
“Our AWS bill was a black box until Alchemy walked us through cost drivers and fixed the obvious waste in the first month.”
“Cutover weekend went exactly as rehearsed. The runbooks they left behind mean we're not dependent on outside help for day-two operations.”
“Finally someone who treated security as enablement, not bureaucracy. Our audit findings dropped and developers still move fast.”
Representative engagements from teams we have partnered with. Details anonymized where clients prefer discretion.
A 40-person product team ran production on aging colo hardware with a fixed maintenance window and no documented rollback path.
We mapped dependencies, staged workloads in parallel on AWS, rehearsed cutover twice, and left runbooks the internal team could execute.
Outcome: Completed migration with zero unplanned downtime; monthly infrastructure spend dropped 32% within 60 days.
Rapid AWS adoption outpaced IAM hygiene. Audit findings flagged excessive privileges and incomplete logging.
We deployed organization guardrails, tightened IAM with least privilege, and wired CloudTrail and GuardDuty into actionable alerts.
Outcome: Critical audit findings cleared in one quarter; mean time to detect suspicious activity fell from days to hours.
Leadership wanted a secure internal Q&A tool over proprietary documents without exposing data to public models.
We built a Bedrock RAG pilot with encryption, access policies, and cost caps—plus a path to production if the pilot succeeded.
Outcome: Pilot live in three weeks; support team cut document lookup time by roughly half with guardrails finance could approve.
We're a small AWS consulting firm anchored in Portland, ME. We empower businesses to break free from traditional IT infrastructure constraints by leveraging the transformative capabilities of AWS platforms, enabling them to innovate rapidly and securely. Our team consists mainly of AWS engineers, with a few intrepid souls exploring other domains. We're dedicated to deepening our AWS expertise daily, but more importantly, we're committed to sharing that knowledge freely.
Clear steps, no surprises. You always know who is doing the work and what comes next.
A free 30-minute conversation to understand your workloads, constraints, and goals. No pitch deck—just honest technical Q&A.
We document options, trade-offs, timeline, and cost estimates. You get a written plan your team can review before anything starts.
We implement alongside your team, with runbooks and knowledge transfer so improvements stick after we step back.
