Secure AWS Cloud Foundations for Startups & SMEs

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Who We Are

FIRSTBLOX works with founders, CTOs, product teams, VCs and accelerators to ensure they start, deliver, and operate right using AWS. We create best-practice, battle-tested cloud foundations and application delivery techniques. Once in place, your teams will be ready to build with less complexity and friction. Each of our offerings emphasises a security-first mindset and efficient delivery. Fundamentally, we're Cloud, DevOps and Platform engineers with a Product-first mindset.

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What We Offer

We offer a range of productised services to enable the creation of new AWS organisations with security and compliance foundations. We then provide "a way" to build and ship products with "golden paths" and guardrails. Our offerings are product delivery enablers and time and cost savers. Our reusable building blocks, patterns, and blueprints ensure teams get there quicker, reducing friction from dev to prod.

Discovery

Before we begin our journey together, we start with a Discovery Phase. This crucial step allows us to ensure that we're a great fit for your product business and that our services can provide substantial value. During the Discovery Phase, we assess your needs , evaluate your cloud infrastructure, and generate a detailed report. This process helps us all understand if we're aligned to move forward with implementing our range of products. It's a collaborative effort designed to set the stage for a successful partnership.

Our Products

Our suite of products are built with industry best practices, compliance, and security in mind. Your organisation can quickly deploy, scale, or build upon existing cloud infrastructure. Our continuous support and maintenance services keep your infrastructure secure and efficient, while maximising performance and reducing downtime.

Continuity Support

Our continuity support service options that your infrastructure remains secure, efficient, and capable of adapting to evolving business needs. Our range of support options offers peace of mind and continuous operational excellence, allowing you to concentrate on growth and strategic initiatives without worrying about infrastructure issues.

Unbanx

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Partnering with FIRSTBLOX was one of our best and most crucial decisions as we transitioned from MVP to a production-ready platform. Their AWS, security, and automation expertise helped us build a resilient cloud environment that met our needs. Thanks to their CloudCare service, we have continued support and the ability to scale our infrastructure efficiently. We highly recommend their services to any startup or scale-up building a secure and scalable cloud platform.”

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Alan McDonald

Founder

Avenue One

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Working with FIRSTBLOX felt like having a true extension of our team. Their thoughtful approach and deep AWS knowledge brought clarity and efficiency that resonated with our business approach. Working with FIRSTBLOX gave us clarity and control, building strong operational and delivery foundations that align perfectly with our ambitions for scalable real estate investments. Their commitment and alignment with our goals made them an ideal partner.

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Masha S

(ex.) Head of Product Engineering

CourtsDesk

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Work commenced promptly and was carried out in the most professional manner, being fully transparent with regular updates and detailed documentation of all decisions and deliverables maintained. The team really went above and beyond, meeting every one of our requirements and more. The infrastructure-as-code is clean and carefully crafted and since the handover, which itself was meticulously planned and documented, we have found it remarkably easy to take ownership of what is quite a large and sophisticated platform. As a small start-up with a limited budget, huge demands on our human resources, and no dedicated in-house cloud specialist, taking on any significant infrastructure project is daunting. Firstblox made it easy. We will have no hesitation about calling on them again in the future

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Alan Larkin

CTO

ProLink

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We worked with FIRSTBLOX to create a new quotation calculator product for the international market. The team recommended and implemented solutions that immediately resonated with our approach to business. It’s great, we pay very little in operational costs and the solution is exactly what we needed to scale and grow the product on a global basis

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Brendan Mulhern

Director