Cloud & Reliability

You Invested in the Cloud to Save Costs not Deploy Faster

Lifting your servers into another organization's data center changes your bill, not your capability. We scope our work around what the cloud does best, elasticity, managed services, and deployments that can happen on a Tuesday afternoon

The Risks Behind Cloud Transformation

Where Cloud Programs Go Wrong

The Lift-and-Shift That Saved Nothing

Virtual machines are lifted and shifted, running 24/7 on committed capacity, burning budget, and nobody has a clear idea of the business benefit.

The Cost Curve Nobody Owns

Cloud budgets increase faster than usage, with nobody knowing exactly who to blame. Spend is not accurately visible or attributable due to lack of proper tagging and allocation.

Deployment that Still Needs a Change Window

Manual deployment steps, ad-hoc production configuration, and no easy rollback path lead to release cadence issues. Too risky to batch features together, but too scary to release often.

Alerts Nobody Trusts

Hundreds of alerts drown out the few that matter. Customers often notify the on-call team before an incident is noticed in production.

Kubernetes Nobody Wanted

A platform was chosen on incorrect criteria, and now the company has an operations team taking care of the orchestration layer for an application that didn't need it.

Cloud Engineering Expertise

What We Do

Cloud Architecture & Migration

We evaluate an opportunity for migration within your environment, design a target architecture, and scope out a workplan around a migration sequence that takes into account technical debt and risk. We migrate workloads in accordance with their dependencies and risk profile, and advise re-platforming or re-architecture when appropriate, or alternatively a simple lift-and-shift if it's not.

Platform Engineering

We enable engineering teams by establishing an internal platform for deploying services, pipelines, environment management, and paved deployment paths. Developers are able to self-serve while enforcing guardrails without a centralized review or ticketing system.

Infrastructure as Code

We replace manually maintained environments with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform or Pulumi. We establish a single source of truth for environments while being able to recreate them from code, providing a foundation for disaster recovery.

Kubernetes and Containers

We embrace Kubernetes when it's indicated, while building out the architecture around multi-tenancy, autoscaling, service meshes, and cost controls. We can design and implement production control planes for orchestration while recommending managed services and serverless wherever they make sense. Not everything needs an orchestrator!

CI/CD

We enable organizations to deliver value to their customers faster and more reliably by automating the end-to-end lifecycle of software development. We build guardrails into pipelines such that features are secure, performant, and compliant without overhead. Deploys can be happening multiple times per day if they provide demonstrable value.

Observability

We instrument applications, platforms, and infrastructure for metrics, logs, and traces so that teams can detect and remediate incidents and performance issues rapidly. We employ alerts that are focused on customer-visible symptoms and meaningful infrastructure behavior, not random noise.

FinOps

We advise on and implement tagging strategies and allocate costs to relevant business units so that they understand what they are responsible for. We can also advise on rightsizing, commitment purchases, and architectural changes that lower expenditure at a systemic level.

Managed Operations

We provide infrastructure-level managed operations and maintenance under service level agreements so that teams can focus on value delivery rather than change management and incident response.

Technology Behind Our Cloud Solutions

Technology stack

Cloud
  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • DigitalOcean
  • Cloudflare
Containers
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Argo CD

Kubernetes on the managed flavours: EKS, AKS, and GKE.

Infrastructure as Code
  • Terraform
  • Pulumi
  • Ansible
  • CloudFormation
  • Bicep
CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Jenkins
  • Azure DevOps
  • CircleCI
Observability
  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Sentry
  • New Relic
  • ELK
Security
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • cloud-native KMS
  • Snyk
  • Trivy
  • cloud-native security tools
Engagement Models

Three Ways to Engage

Engagement Duration What it covers
Cloud Assessment 2 Weeks We evaluate your architecture, cloud costs, risk exposure, and provide you with a prioritized technical roadmap. You always retain the assessment even if you decide not to work with us.
Migration or Modernization Program 3–12 Months We migrate your workloads in iterations, with clear decision points and options in scope at each stage. This allows for ongoing evaluation and avoids large-scale rework.
Managed Operations Ongoing We maintain what you build with us under service-level agreements for incident response, patch management, and capacity planning.
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

It depends. Steady-state workloads with infrequent deployments and predictable needs may be more expensive to host in the cloud.

It depends. We can employ a mixture of dual writing, replication, validation, and traffic-based cutover events depending on the system. The option to fall back always remains until it's been validated that it's no longer needed.

Not often. It's usually better to adopt managed services and serverless components where possible, while reserving orchestration for multi-workload clusters that require it. We'll only recommend Kubernetes if you have appropriate operations resources for it.

It depends on your environment, but we typically scope our work around rightsizing, storage management, and ephemeral workloads for our first pass. The second pass usually focuses on higher-level architectural improvements, which is where we'll see the most sustainable reduction in spend.

Yes We Provide 24/7 Support

Start with a written architecture assessment

Two weeks. Our architects review your systems, your integrations, and your constraints, then hand you a document: what's structurally sound, what's a risk, and what a delivery plan would actually cost. You keep it either way.