Why Choose Pre-Built DevOps Infrastructure to Reduce Your Time to Market

Why Building Infrastructure from Scratch Is a Hard Way

Usually, to set up an infrastructure, organizations would either hire a DevOps contractor or have their in-house team handle it. Here’s what tends to happen after that.

Week 1: Starting from Zero

Your engineer opens a blank Terraform file. Every resource they need has to be built step by step. They start with the basics—setting up the network. This means writing VPC configurations, defining subnets, configuring security groups, and more. Each line of code requires research, writing, and testing. 

Week 2-3: Building Every Component

Now comes the next part: writing scripts for databases, load balancers, auto-scaling groups, monitoring systems, and much more. Every setting must be specified, and every connection needs a script. Basically, your DevOps engineers create an automation layer first, and only then can they benefit from this automation.

Week 4+: Making Everything Work Together

Individual components are ready, but integration is still ahead. Your engineer debugs connection issues, adjusts security policies, fine-tunes resource dependencies, tests deployment and rollback procedures…

This is the standard approach companies follow today. It’s effective—thousands of businesses have built successful infrastructure this way. Yet, there’s an opportunity to do things differently, even more effectively.

What Is Pre-Built DevOps Infrastructure?

Pre-built infrastructure is a ready-to-go setup that you can deploy immediately. In other words, it’s professionally designed scripts that are already tested and proven to work. 

This is a complete, scalable systems that include all the essential services most businesses need, like databases, security settings, and monitoring tools, all connected and properly configured.

Reasons to Opt for Pre-Built Infrastructure

Here are the key benefits that make pre-built infrastructure a game-changer for growing businesses.

Faster Time to Market

Developing infrastructure manually means your team should log into the cloud console, click through lots of menus, and set up each service one by one. 

But with pre-made infrastructure, all this busy work gets automated. The scripts handle the clicking, connecting, and configuring parts. All you need to do is hit deploy, and your product is already launched, receiving first feedback and improvements. 

Dramatic Cost Reduction

DevOps providers who start from scratch each time charge more. But pre-built infrastructure helps cut down on those repeated costs. 

You’re not paying for someone to recreate solutions that already exist. The math is pretty simple: fewer hours of engineering work means lower overall costs for your project.

But Not All Scripts Are Created Equal

The key for every business is growth. And your infrastructure defines how far you can scale.

When you choose a pre-built template for your setup, you need to look closely at what solutions form its foundation. 

Take Elastic Container Service (ECS). It’s Amazon’s simple option for managing containers—the most basic way to run your apps in the cloud. Companies prefer ECS because it’s easier to understand than more complex setups. Your team can get applications up and running quickly, and the monthly costs tend to start low. 

However, as your business expands, you add more apps, more features, and this means more complexity. With ECS, you often have to manage each application separately. When you update one service, you might risk negatively affecting the performance of others. If you want to scale during busy times, each app needs its own scaling rules. Even small changes can take hours instead of minutes. 

Lambda functions are an even bigger trap. Lambda lets you run small pieces of code without managing servers. Sounds perfect for quick deployment.

But the downside is that Lambda can lock you into rigid, inflexible systems. Your setup is divided into tiny, isolated pieces, and each piece exists separately. If you need to change something, you can’t just tweak one part. You have to update multiple Lambda functions, change how they communicate, and adjust all the connections. And if you miss even one connection, your whole system could break.

Growth-Ready Infrastructure Uses a Different Solution

When you’re ready to scale your business, you need a system that’s ready for growth, too. That’s where Kubernetes comes in. It’s a tool that takes care of managing your applications automatically.