Cloud Operations · On AWS since 2006

AWS Server Management Services

AWS server management from Server Surgeon means senior engineers who monitor, operate, and maintain your AWS account — the EC2 instances and what runs inside them, plus the RDS and Aurora databases, VPC networking, Elastic Load Balancing, S3 and EBS storage, IAM, CloudFront and Route 53. On AWS since 2006, when EC2 was new, with 21 years of production Linux underneath. Scoped to your environment, quoted in writing, never a percentage of your AWS bill.

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The Whole Environment

Linux depth, AWS breadth

The operating system is where we start, not where we stop. AWS server management here covers the account layer too — each slice optional, scoped in writing.

EC2 & Auto Scaling

Provisioning, patching, right-sizing against measured usage, scheduled and notified reboots, security groups tuned to your real traffic, and AMIs kept current under the Auto Scaling groups.

RDS & Self-Managed Databases

PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MariaDB — managed or self-hosted — with parameter tuning, storage growth, upgrades, and failover handled ask-first.

VPC, Load Balancers & Route 53

Network design, ALB/ELB health, CloudFront, and DNS zones with SPF, DKIM, and DMARC kept right so mail keeps landing.

S3, Backups & Disaster Recovery

Storage lifecycle, volumes grown live, EBS snapshots before every risky change, and recovery plans that have been tested rather than assumed.

IAM & Hardening

Least-privilege roles and policies, key hygiene, and OS hardening — recommended to every customer, discussed first, applied the way you approve.

CloudWatch & Monitoring

Dashboards, alarms, and logs wired to open tickets on our desk. We read CloudWatch with Linux eyes — which is usually where the answer is.

The Team & the Terms

Who does the work, and on what terms

Server Surgeon has provided AWS server management since 2006 and production Linux operations since 2005. Every engineer on the team has 8+ years running production environments; the team is small enough that you get to know the people in your account, and your account gets a named primary technical contact. AWS is our specialty — if you also run on Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean, or your own hardware, Cloud Server Management covers those with the same team.

The terms stay simple: a fair price, month-to-month with no fixed-term contract, and a 30-day money-back guarantee — how the pricing works is spelled out below. The scope grows or shrinks with your needs, and the price follows — in both directions.

Project Work

The one-time jobs, quoted separately

Migrations

Into AWS from other hosts, between regions, or out of AWS when that is the right call — with the final fast-sync just before DNS changes, so users never see the move.

DevOps Builds on AWS

CI/CD pipelines deploying to EC2 or ECS with GitHub Actions, and your AWS infrastructure captured in CloudFormation or Terraform — see Managed DevOps Services for the full build-and-run picture.

FinOps & Cost Right-Sizing

Instance families, EBS volumes, and RDS classes reviewed against real usage, with changes recommended in writing and carried out once you approve — our fee never scales with your bill, so shrinking it costs us nothing.

Development Services

Custom development, scoped and quoted like any other project — integrations, automation, and changes to the application you already run — written by the same team that operates the environment the code ships to. See Website Repair & Modernization for the full development offering.

Scope & Pricing

Priced to your environment. Never a percentage of your AWS bill.

Some providers price AWS management as a percentage of your AWS spend — which quietly pays them more as your bill grows. We think that points the incentive the wrong way. Our fee is priced to the work you hand off: we scope it with you in a conversation, put the scope and the price in writing, and you approve it before anything starts. No hidden costs. Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract, 30-day money-back guarantee.

In Their Own Words

Customer Testimonials

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Extremely Pleased
“I have been using your services now for over 5 years and am extremely pleased with the relationship that we have established. Just set it and forget it — you provide a much-needed coverage in our gap between what we know, what we don't, and what we just don't know that we don't know…”

Scott Server Surgeon Customer

Happy New Customer
“I just want to say thank you to you guys. I'm a new customer and I've certainly used up much more of your time than the monthly fee you charge so I really appreciate it. You're all doing an outstanding job and your response time is amazing — I've not seen this quickness in any of the server providers I've used before. Thanks again.”

Michael Server Surgeon Customer

Keeps Us Focused
“It's really nice to be able to concentrate on doing what we do best — web design, development and SEO — rather than spending hours/days on Linux forums hoping to find a fix, when in reality we haven't got a clue how to manage a Linux server to the commercial standard that's required.”

Chong Server Surgeon Customer

Just Need the Servers Managed?

Classic server management on AWS is a flat rate.

If what you want is the Linux instances themselves managed — the OS, the stack, and the control panel on EC2 or Lightsail, without the account layer — that is our flat-rate plan, $85 per server per month, same as a server anywhere else:

Frequently Asked

AWS Server Management Quick FAQ

These are the questions we hear most often. Search our extensive FAQ here.

We have answered many more. Browse our 150+ question FAQ or contact our sales team.

Tell us what you run on AWS.

A senior engineer scopes the coverage with you — one slice or the whole environment — puts it in writing, and quotes it. Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract, 30-day money-back guarantee.

Or call +1-877-378-7436 US Toll Free / +1-213-291-9191 International

About Server Surgeon

About Server Surgeon

The same team every day, on every server. Three things we promise —

  • 21 years solving the same problems

    We have handled every common Linux distribution, every panel, and every kind of outage before, and we know how to resolve them.

  • Senior administrators only

    Every ticket is handled by a senior admin with 8+ years of managing production web hosting servers. No outsourcing, no junior staff logged into your server.

  • 5.0★ on Facebook, 30-day money-back

    Month-to-month, no fixed-term contract. If we are not the right fit, we refund you without argument. Read the reviews →

Server Surgeon has provided AWS server management since 2006, when EC2 was new. The same senior engineers who manage Linux servers for hosting companies now watch, run, and build full AWS environments — monitoring, managed operations, and DevOps — scoped to each account and quoted in writing.

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