AWS
MVP: PostgreSQL on AWS in 10 Minutes
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 …
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 …
AWS Account Setup for Startups: Security and Cost Control Step by Step
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 …
Building Resilience into SSO Elevator 3.1.0: Lessons from an AWS Outage
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.
How Hippo Achieved SOC 2 on AWS in About a Month
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.
Production-Ready AWS Infrastructure for Continue, AI Startup
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.