29%
of cloud spend is estimated waste, rising for the first time in five years.
Flexera State of the Cloud, 2026
For SaaS teams of 3-15 developers on AWS
Ship on Friday.
Sleep on Saturday.
Keel runs your AWS releases, backups and routine changes. AI does the legwork, and a named engineer signs off.
Auto-rollback armed
tallyroom/ production
Example viewHealthy
Release #214
checkout-serviceAgent opened a pull request
Upgrade Node 20 to 22 base image
Policy check passed
No destructive changes found
Approved by your Keel engineer
Plan and test results reviewed
Deploying
2 of 3 tasks healthy
Last restore test
Passed in 14 min
prod-db, 6 Oct
Changes this month
7 merged
0 rolled back
Small teams ship faster than ever. Their safety nets haven't caught up.
28%
of organisations hit by ransomware fully restored their data.
Veeam, 2026
£60,302
average UK DevOps engineer base salary, before employer costs.
Indeed UK, October 2026
More code shipped.
Less stable delivery.
AI adoption is linked to faster output and to less stable software delivery.
DORA State of AI-assisted Software Development, 2025
Four jobs off your plate. One team you can call.
We don't do everything. We do the operational work that keeps a live product safe, and we do it properly.
Safe releases
Every deploy runs through tests and health checks. If it breaks, it rolls back on its own.
- #212 apideployed
- #213 checkoutrolled back 1m 32s
- #214 checkoutdeployed
health checks: 3 of 3 passing
Backups that restore
We restore your database to a scratch copy on a schedule and send you the proof.
14 minlast restore, passed
Routine changes, handled
New service, new secret, version upgrade? Ask in Slack. It arrives as a reviewed pull request.
PR #88Ready for review
Add Redis cache to api
+42 -3 in infra/redis.tf
Costs kept honest
Regular cost reviews spot idle and oversized resources before the bill does.
- 2 idle NAT gatewaysRemove
- Database oversized for trafficDownsize
- Steady usage, no Savings PlanReview
Interface snippets on this page are illustrative examples.
From first call to calm releases in about a month.
Talk
A free 20-minute call
Tell us what's been hurting. We'll say honestly whether we're a fit.
Assess
A read-only review, £1,250
Releases, backups, security and cost. Credited in full if you sign within 30 days.
Onboard
Live within 30 days
Pipeline with rollback, backups set up, one restore test passed. Miss it and month one is refunded.
Run
Every month after that
Business-hours support, every change as a pull request, and a monthly report.
Every change, the safe way
Nothing touches your live systems directly. Every change goes through Git, gets checked, and can be undone.
- Agent drafts the change
- Policy check
- Engineer approves
- Deploy
- Auto-rollback if checks fail
Read-only work
Cost scans, backup checks and log summaries run on their own.
Routine changes
AI drafts the pull request. An engineer reviews and approves it.
Risky actions
Deleting data, access or DNS changes: people only, with your written OK.
What Keel supports
Works with the tools you already use. Events come in, safe actions go out.
- ListensKeel receives events from it
- ActsKeel takes safe actions through it
- On requestOn request
Cloud
AWS is home base. Everything runs in your own account.
Amazon Web Services
Read-only role by default. Changes only through your pipeline.
- CloudWatch
- EventBridge
- AWS Backup
- RDS
- Cost Explorer
- GuardDuty, on request
ListensActs
Code and delivery
Every change lives in Git, so it can be reviewed and undone.
GitHub
Pull requests, pushes and workflow results
ListensActsGitHub Actions
Runs deploys, plans and restore tests
ActsTerraform
Infrastructure as code in your repo
ActsOpenTofu
Open-source alternative to Terraform
ActsDependabot
Dependency and security alerts
Listens
Monitoring and on-call
We hear about problems before your customers do.
Sentry
App errors and crash spikes
ListensBetter Stack
Uptime and slow-page alerts
ListensPostHog
Traffic and how users react after a release
ListensPagerDuty
Out-of-hours alerts to your on-call
ActsOpsgenie
Out-of-hours alerts to your on-call
Acts
Team and tickets
Updates land where your team already talks.
Slack
Requests in, updates and approvals out
ListensActsEmail
Monthly reports and restore proof
ActsJira
Tickets for app bugs we spot
ActsOn requestLinear
Tickets for app bugs we spot
ActsOn request
Mobile release add-on
For teams shipping iOS and Android apps.
Expo EAS
Builds, submissions and over-the-air updates
ListensActsBitrise
Mobile build results
ListensFastlane
Signing and store uploads
ActsApp Store Connect
TestFlight uploads and review status
ListensActsGoogle Play Console
Testing tracks and review status
ListensActs
Using something else? Mention it on the call. We add connectors when a client needs them.
Same problem. Two very different afternoons.
Pick a scenario, then flip between life without Keel and life with it.
Illustrative example
# engineering
Ifeoma16:42
checkout is throwing 500s
Tomás16:44
who deployed last? anyone?
Ifeoma16:51
trying to roll back by hand
Tomás17:58
maybe the migration? still digging
Over an hour down, weekend at risk
Bad releases undo themselves. You hear about it from a calm message, not angry customers.
Grown-up operations, without the grown-up headcount.
Less than half a hire
£26,388 a year
for Managed Operations, against an average UK DevOps base salary of £60,302 before employer costs.
No lock-in
Code, Terraform and runbooks live in your repos and your AWS account from day one. Leave any time, with everything.
A person owns it
AI agents do the legwork. A named engineer reviews every risky change and picks up when you call.
Proof, every month
One report covering changes made, incidents handled and your latest restore test result.
Simple plans. Everything spelled out.
You pay AWS directly. Anything outside your plan is quoted before we start, so there are no surprise bills.
Paid assessment
See exactly where you stand
£1,250
one-off, credited in full if you sign within 30 days
Doing this in-house means
A contractor for about 3 days
About £1,575 at the UK median of £525 a day
What we check
- How code gets to production
- Backups, and whether they restore
- Security, access and secrets
- AWS spend and quick wins
What you get
- Read-only access, nothing changed
- Written report with a score out of 100
- Your top 5 fixes, ranked by impact
- Walkthrough call with an engineer
Core Operations
For one product and a small team
£1,299
per month, 3-month minimum
Production + staging, up to 3 services, 1 database
Doing this in-house means
1 DevOps engineer
About £75,000 a year, with no cover when they're away
Onboarding £2,500
Releases
- Deploy pipeline on GitHub Actions
- Tests and health checks on every deploy
- Automatic rollback if a release fails
Backups
- Daily backups, kept 14 days
- Restore test every quarter, with proof
Changes and security
- Routine changes as reviewed pull requests
- All infrastructure as code in your repo
- Monthly patching of OS, images and packages
- Secrets, least-privilege access, SSL renewals
Monitoring, support and cost
- Uptime, error and log monitoring
- Critical issues answered within 1 business hour
- Cost review every quarter
- Monthly report
Managed Operations
Best valueFor growing teams shipping often
£2,199
per month, 3-month minimum
Prod, staging and previews, up to 6 services, 2 data stores
Doing this in-house means
1 senior DevOps engineer, plus cover
About £89,000+ a year, plus a backup for holidays
Onboarding £4,000
Everything in Core, plus:
Releases
- Preview environments for pull requests
- Zero-downtime deploys
- Launch readiness check before big releases
Backups and recovery
- Point-in-time restore, kept 30 days
- Restore test every month
- Yearly disaster recovery drill
Security and monitoring
- Weekly patching, urgent fixes within 48 hours
- Web application firewall
- Performance dashboards and tracing
Support, cost and planning
- Shared Slack channel with your engineer
- Monthly cost review and Savings Plans advice
- Monthly review call
- Quarterly architecture review
Custom
For bigger or more complex setups
£3,500+
per month, scoped after your assessment
Doing this in-house means
A platform team of 2 to 3 engineers
About £150,000 to £270,000 a year
Built around you
- Kubernetes (EKS) or multi-region
- Compliance-heavy workloads
- More services and environments
- Extended support hours with a staffed rota
- Agreed response times in your contract
Hire in-house, or bring in Keel?
Yearly cost of covering the same operational work, at monthly prices.
In-house DevOps engineer, about £75,000
Keel Managed Operations, £26,388
Keel Core Operations, £15,588
In-house estimates use Indeed UK average DevOps engineer base salaries, October 2026 (£60,302; senior £71,529), plus about 25% for employer costs such as pension, National Insurance and tools. Recruiting time and holiday cover are not included. A full-time hire can also take on work outside Keel's scope.
Mobile release add-on
£499/mo
Expo EAS or Bitrise pipelines, signing and store submission prep
Extra project work
£150/hr
Always quoted and approved before we start
Cost optimisation sprint
£1,500
Rightsizing, Savings Plans and clean-up
Security questionnaire help
£750 each
Answers for your enterprise customers
Not included, so there are no surprises
- Writing app features or fixing app bugs
- A 24/7 human pager, unless you're on Custom
- Guaranteed App Store approval
- Stacks outside AWS and GitHub
Support hours
People are on hand Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm UK time. Outside those hours, automated monitoring and auto-rollback keep watch, and alerts go to your own on-call contact.
How safe are your releases, really?
20 minutes, no slides. We'll tell you honestly if Keel is a fit, and what we'd fix first.