The Right Way
to AWS

The Right Way
to AWS

The Right Way
to AWS

Substrate is a CLI tool that helps teams build and operate 

secure, compliant, isolated AWS infrastructure.

From developers who have been there.

Substrate is a CLI tool that helps
teams build and operate 

secure, compliant, isolated
AWS infrastructure.

From developers who
have been there.

Developer-Friendly

Proper AWS architecture is truly isolated. 

Substrate makes it simple.

Proper AWS architecture is truly isolated. 

Substrate makes it simple.

Proper AWS architecture is truly isolated. 

Substrate makes it simple.

Isolation, for real

Development from production; DevOps from QA; database servers from application servers; BI and analytics from the critical path; customers from each other. Substrate makes it possible to keep everything truly separate, a major step toward security and compliance.

So long, production outages

Reduce the blast radius of production deploys, and make software and infrastructure changes safer with many narrowly defined accounts and strict access controls all managed through a single pane of glass.

Next-level tooling

Substrate’s developer experience is second to none. We take the pain of AWS tooling away and add human readable account names, sensible CLI parameters, and a dashboard to visualize it all.

Learn more about The Pillars of Proper Isolation

Fosters Team Confidence

Waste less time, and ship more code.

Secure, compliant daily workflows

Open your laptop, fire up a shell, and start every day by using substrate for everything from granting temporary twelve-hour access credentials to seamless environment switching.

Access control that integrates with your tools

Substrate works with your existing identity provider, and speaks native AWS and Terraform to provide your team secure access to all the appropriate services with no overhead. Assume roles, access infrastructure, and make changes, all with the correct guardrails in place.

Iterate quickly and compliantly

Iterate quickly in pre-production environments, confident that you cannot impact production. Roll out incremental changes in production confidently without impacting compliance.

See how your team can go from ‘oops!’ to ‘ahhhh!’

A Foundation Built to Last

SOC2 compliance without all the pain—and without sacrificing speed.

Impress your auditors, and speed up the process

The Substrate architecture makes change-management criteria easier to meet. You'll also

impress auditors with data and network segmentation most startups can only dream of.

Time-limited, no-storage credentials

Substrate provides advanced credential management: authenticate with your existing identity provider and get time-limited credentials, scoped to least-privilege access, with the peace of mind that no credentials are stored on disk.

Network segmentation without the CIDR math

Create isolated networking environments with shared VPCs that allow cross-account communication (without CIDR math).

Doing it right has never been easier

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    Casey Crites

    “All AWS access is immediately solved for us.
    It’s like having a team of SREs that have set a
    standard that makes it easy for non-SREs to follow.”

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    Nate Brown

    "Substrate setup our AWS accounts and IAM
    the right way. With true isolation between
    environments and all the networking taken care of."

  • Metronome Logo

    Preston Price

    "Substrate makes creating, managing and using
    AWS accounts and IAM roles so easy and
    it’s great knowing the architecture will scale with us." 

  • Metronome Logo

    Casey Crites

    “All AWS access is immediately solved for us.
    It’s like having a team of SREs that have set a
    standard that makes it easy for non-SREs to follow.”

  • Metronome Logo

    Nate Brown

    "Substrate setup our AWS accounts and IAM
    the right way. With true isolation between
    environments and all the networking taken care of."

  • Metronome Logo

    Preston Price

    "Substrate makes creating, managing and using
    AWS accounts and IAM roles so easy and
    it’s great knowing the architecture will scale with us." 

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