monolayer

It enables professional developers and CitizenDevelopers business and domain experts with deep operational knowledge to build and deploy applications without waiting on developer queues, cloud provisioning tickets, or specialized infrastructure expertise.

monolayer connects each application with the AWS infrastructure it needs and manages both as one system. Customer-defined policies, permissions, approved patterns, and review workflows govern every deployment, helping enterprises accelerate delivery without creating shadow IT or sacrificing security, compliance, or control.

## Key Use Cases

**CitizenDeveloper**

Business teams often know exactly which workflows, tools, and applications they need, but lack the engineering resources to build them.

With monolayer, domain experts can turn business requirements into working applications deployed within a governed AWS environment. Enterprises can give citizen developers greater autonomy while maintaining control through:

• Approved application and infrastructure patterns
• Customer-defined policies and permissions
• Automated security and compliance checks
• Required review and approval workflows
• Traceable deployment and audit records
• Deployment inside the organization's AWS boundary

This helps reduce application backlogs and manual handoffs without introducing an ungoverned technology estate.

**Developer Acceleration**

Professional developers can define infrastructure directly from application code, including background jobs, cron tasks, databases, real-time WebSocket channels, and object storage.

monolayer provisions, configures, and deploys the required AWS services automatically, reducing the need for separate Terraform projects, YAML configuration, infrastructure tickets, or complex CI/CD pipelines.

**Application Modernization**

monolayer can bring inherited applications and infrastructure into a consistent, declarative delivery model. Teams can use the same governed workflow for infrastructure generation, policy validation, deployment, updates, and audit evidence.

## Key Capabilities

• **Intent-to-Application**: Start with a business requirement, application specification, or existing workload.
• **Application and Infrastructure Together**: Define cloud requirements alongside application logic.
• **Governed Automation**: Validate proposed changes against customer-defined policies and route exceptions for approval.
• **Preview Environments**: Create branch environments with live databases and automatically applied migrations.
• **Production Deployment**: Move approved applications from development to production through the same delivery path.
• **Audit Evidence**: Maintain traceability across requirements, generated plans, policy checks, approvals, and deployments.

Platform capabilities include background jobs, cron scheduling, database management, migrations, WebSocket channels, object storage, secrets, observability, and local development workflows.

## Who Is This For?

monolayer is designed for organizations that want to increase software delivery capacity without losing control of their AWS environment.

It supports:

• Citizen developers and domain experts building internal applications
• Application teams reducing infrastructure and deployment toil
• Platform teams creating reusable, approved delivery patterns
• Security and compliance teams requiring governance and traceability
• Enterprises modernizing inherited applications
• Startups that want speed without giving up infrastructure ownership

## Why monolayer on AWS?

• **Enable Citizen Development Without Shadow IT**: Applications remain within the enterprise's governed AWS environment.
• **No PaaS Lock-In**: Customers retain ownership of their infrastructure, applications, and data.
• **Customer-Owned Controls**: Existing AWS permissions, policies, and security boundaries remain in place.
• **Full Lifecycle Optimization**: Support development, testing, previews, approvals, deployment, and production operations.
• **Developer Experience First**: Citizen developers begin with business outcomes, while professional developers work directly from code.

## How It Works

• Install monolayer in your AWS account.
• Connect your GitHub repository via the monolayer GitHub App.
• Define your infrastructure needs directly in your application code.
• Push code and let monolayer handle provisioning, migrations, and deployment automatically
• Retain a traceable record from intent through production.

## Get Started

Install monolayer in your AWS account and turn your first business requirement into governed, production-ready software.