/ FivexL blog and case studies - Expert AWS insights, DevOps best practices, cloud engineering guidance, and real-world success stories Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us info@fivexl.io (FivexL) info@fivexl.io (FivexL) Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/scaling-ai-code-review/ Wed, 20 May 2026 Alexey Eremin /blog/scaling-ai-code-review/ How we rolled out AI code review across all repositories using CloudWatch alarms and an automatic Lambda circuit breaker to keep Bedrock costs under control. /blog/fivexl-newsletter-april-2026/ Wed, 06 May 2026 FivexL /blog/fivexl-newsletter-april-2026/ Greetings! Here’s what April looked like at FivexL: a live session on the compliance gap nobody talks about until the auditor is in the room, two open-source releases, and a roundup of what the team flagged in Slack - including AWS sunsetting a long list of services and the community fallout … /blog/just-in-time-access-aws/ Mon, 04 May 2026 Vladimir-Samoylov /blog/just-in-time-access-aws/ You have logs. You do not have proof. That is the gap most startups in regulated industries like healthcare or fintech discover during their first HIPAA or SOC 2 audit. The IAM policies are there. The roles are configured. Permissions are restricted. But when an auditor asks “who had access to … /blog/soc2-hipaa-pci-aws-rightstart/ Fri, 10 Apr 2026 Yousef De Baz /blog/soc2-hipaa-pci-aws-rightstart/ Setting up compliance-ready AWS infrastructure is one of the first real infrastructure challenges a healthcare or fintech startup faces. This post covers what HIPAA, SOC 2, and PCI DSS actually require from your AWS environment - and how to implement those controls without building everything from … /blog/fivexl-newsletter-march-2026/ Tue, 31 Mar 2026 FivexL /blog/fivexl-newsletter-march-2026/ Greetings! Here’s what March looked like at FivexL: a webinar with Clearway Health’s SVP of Technology on building audit-ready architecture, a major overhaul of our ECS alerting module, three new DevSecOps Talks episodes, and the launch of Humans in the Loop - a video series on agentic … /blog/from-leadership-values-to-security/ Tue, 24 Mar 2026 FivexL /blog/from-leadership-values-to-security/ In a recent webinar, Rusty Atkinson, SVP, Technology at Clearway Health, joined FivexL’s Andrey Devyatkin, Co-Founder and Principal Cloud Engineering Consultant, and Guilherme Ferreira, Senior Cloud Engineering Consultant, to discuss a question that matters to every company operating under … /blog/fivexl-newsletter-february-2026/ Fri, 06 Mar 2026 FivexL /blog/fivexl-newsletter-february-2026/ Greetings! FivexL kept its usual pace in February: two new case studies for our happy customers, AWS re:Invent 2025 recap webinar, a round of open-source releases, and two podcast episodes covering security patches and agent-native infrastructure. Here’s the rundown. /case-studies/sirob-case-study/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 Alexey Eremin, Anton Eremin /case-studies/sirob-case-study/ FivexL built a secure, multi-tenant AWS platform for an Estonian AI startup, taking their agentic DevOps product from early MVP to production-ready infrastructure in under two months. /case-studies/neverless-case-study/ Fri, 13 Feb 2026 Anton Eremin, Vladimir Samoylov /case-studies/neverless-case-study/ FivexL delivered a secure, production-ready AWS foundation for a London fintech company expanding beyond Google Cloud. /blog/aws-news-you-can-use-2026/ Thu, 12 Feb 2026 FivexL /blog/aws-news-you-can-use-2026/ AWS ships fast. At AWS re:Invent 2025, AWS made 500+ announcements. Most teams don’t have time to read every release - but we did. We did it for one reason: to stay on top of the technology (and help you do the same). Below is our shortlist of AWS updates worth adopting in 2026 if you want to stay … /blog/fivexl-newsletter-january-2026/ Fri, 06 Feb 2026 FivexL /blog/fivexl-newsletter-january-2026/ January at FivexL usually means less writing and more time deep in customer systems, and this year is no exception. Our consultants are busy helping teams turn last year’s plans into concrete AWS changes: tightening security, cleaning up foundations, and making room for the next round of features. … /blog/how-to-get-aws-credits/ Tue, 20 Jan 2026 FivexL /blog/how-to-get-aws-credits/ There’s a lot of information about AWS credits and the different programs behind them. It’s easy to get stuck — unsure which credits apply to your stage, what you actually qualify for, and where to start. This guide summarizes the main credit paths for startups: AWS Activate (Founders vs … /blog/fivexl-newsletter-december-2025/ Wed, 14 Jan 2026 FivexL /blog/fivexl-newsletter-december-2025/ Intro December is always an intense month in the AWS consulting land. On one hand, you have re:Invent with its barrage of announcements, presentations, and a lot of action to stay up-to-date with. On the other hand, it is the end of the year — which often means project deadlines. And on top of that, … /blog/sso-elevator-group-assignment/ Thu, 18 Dec 2025 Andrey Devyatkin /blog/sso-elevator-group-assignment/ Google Workspace SCIM provisioning to AWS IAM Identity Center does not sync groups - a frustrating limitation. SSO Elevator now offers a Terraform-native solution that automatically assigns users to groups based on their attributes, eliminating the need for external tools like ssosync. /blog/mvp-on-aws-part-3/ Tue, 16 Dec 2025 info@fivexl.io (FivexL) /blog/mvp-on-aws-part-3/ A lot of MVP teams pick PostgreSQL because it’s familiar, powerful, and boring in the best way. Then they open the AWS console, click through defaults, and accidentally create a database that’s hard to secure, annoying to operate, and painful to make audit-friendly later. In our work … /blog/fivexl-newsletter-november-2025/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 FivexL /blog/fivexl-newsletter-november-2025/ November was a busy month for us. We published two blog posts, our co-founder Andrey Devyatkin recorded a new podcast episode, and we pulled together a list of articles our teammates shared internally in Slack. December is already moving fast, and Christmas is just around the corner. Before everyone … /blog/mvp-on-aws-part-1/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 info@fivexl.io (FivexL) /blog/mvp-on-aws-part-1/ If you’re building an MVP on AWS - especially in healthcare or fintech - the account setup decisions you make in week one will determine how easy or hard your first audit is. This guide covers the minimum viable AWS foundation: the security, cost, and compliance controls that every startup … /blog/sso-elevator-3-1-0-resilience/ Tue, 28 Oct 2025 Andrey Devyatkin /blog/sso-elevator-3-1-0-resilience/ How a real AWS outage revealed hidden dependencies in SSO Elevator and led to version 3.1.0 with improved resilience through intelligent S3 caching. A practical guide to engineering for failure. /case-studies/hippo-case-study/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 Andrey Devyatkin, Ivan Razzhivin /case-studies/hippo-case-study/ A real-world case study: how Hippo built HIPAA-compliant AWS infrastructure and passed SOC 2 certification in about a month using FivexL’s RightStart multi-account setup and SSO Elevator for just-in-time access. /case-studies/continue-case-study/ Wed, 14 May 2025 Anton Eremin, Alexey Eremin /case-studies/continue-case-study/ FivexL’s RightStart for AWS and production-ready ECS setup gave a U.S. AI startup the infrastructure needed for commercial launch and global scaling.