Cloud & DevOps

Cloud & DevOps

Growth should not arrive with an unpleasant invoice.

Cloud makes scale possible and cost invisible. We build platforms that stay up under real load, ship changes daily, and produce a bill your finance team can explain line by line.

Operations centre monitoring cloud infrastructure and network health
Fig. 01 — Reliability and cost, watched as one number

−41%

cloud cost

Median reduction after architecture review

99.95%

uptime

Across platforms we operate

18x

release rate

Deployment frequency after CI/CD rebuild

The Story

The bill nobody could explain.

A client's cloud spend had grown 240% in two years while their transaction volume had grown 60%. Nobody in the business could account for the difference. Engineering assumed finance was monitoring it; finance assumed engineering understood it; the invoice arrived monthly and was paid without examination because it was categorised as infrastructure.

Two weeks of review found the usual suspects: oversized non-production environments running overnight, storage tiers never rotated, a data pipeline rebuilding everything hourly because incremental logic was harder to write, and three abandoned proof-of-concept clusters still running. Cost fell 41% within a month and performance improved, because most of the waste was also slow.

We now treat cost as a first-class engineering requirement alongside latency and availability. It is attributed per workload, visible to both engineering and finance, and reviewed monthly. Money is a system metric, not an accounting afterthought.

They cut 41% out of our cloud bill and our platform got faster. I had assumed those were opposites.

VP Engineering Marketplace platform, Netherlands
Capabilities

The platform work that keeps value running.

An AI system or application only creates value while it is available, fast and affordable to operate. That is this practice's entire remit.

Architecture

Cloud architecture & migration

Design and migration across AWS, Azure, GCP and Cloudflare with a staged plan that does not put the operation at risk on a single weekend.

Runtime

Kubernetes & container platforms

Production-grade clusters with autoscaling, network policy, secrets management and the operational tooling teams need to run them safely.

Delivery

CI/CD & release engineering

Automated build, test, security scanning and progressive deployment so releasing becomes routine rather than an event requiring a weekend.

Reliability

SRE & observability

Service level objectives, tracing, alerting that fires on user impact rather than CPU, and incident practice that shortens recovery.

Security

Platform security

Identity, least-privilege access, secret rotation, network segmentation, vulnerability management and audit-ready evidence.

Economics

Cloud cost engineering

Per-workload cost attribution, rightsizing, commitment planning and architectural changes that reduce spend rather than just reporting it.

Fig. 02 — Cost attributed per workload, reviewed monthly with financeReliability and economics on the same dashboard
Engineer reviewing platform performance and cost dashboards
Business Outcomes

How platform work shows up in the business.

Each of these is written into the engagement as a number with an owner, a baseline and a review date.

OUTCOME 01

Downtime stops costing revenue

For transactional businesses, availability is directly monetisable. Moving from frequent degradation to 99.95% availability is often the clearest value line we can measure.

OUTCOME 02

Ideas reach customers faster

When releasing is routine, product teams stop batching changes into risky quarterly events. Time-to-market improvement compounds across every initiative that follows.

OUTCOME 03

Infrastructure spend becomes controllable

Attribution turns an unexplained monthly invoice into a set of decisions with owners. The savings recur every month without further effort.

What You Receive

Infrastructure your team can operate.

  • Infrastructure as code in your repositories, reviewed and documented
  • CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security scanning
  • Observability stack with SLOs, dashboards and actionable alerting
  • Runbooks, incident procedures and on-call structure
  • Cost attribution model and a prioritised savings backlog
  • Training and paired operation with your platform engineers
Technology & Method

The engineering underneath.

Proof

Numbers from work already in production.

Measured against the baseline agreed with the client before the engagement started.

−41%

Cloud cost reduction

Median across architecture reviews

18x

Deployment frequency

After CI/CD and test automation rebuild

−58%

Mean time to recovery

Following SRE and observability work

Questions

What engineering and finance leaders ask.

  • 01. Can you reduce our cloud bill without a rebuild?
    Usually a meaningful part of it, yes. Rightsizing, scheduling, storage tiering and commitment planning deliver quickly. Deeper savings sometimes need architectural change, and we separate the two clearly with the effort and return for each.
  • 02. Do we need Kubernetes?
    Often not. Managed services and serverless are cheaper to operate for many workloads, and we will say so. We deploy Kubernetes where scale, portability or workload variety genuinely justifies the operational burden.
  • 03. Will you take on-call for us?
    Yes, through managed support, with follow-the-sun coverage across three time zones. Many clients keep on-call themselves and use us for escalation and platform improvement.
  • 04. How do you avoid a risky migration?
    We migrate incrementally with the ability to roll back at every stage, run both environments in parallel where possible, and rehearse cutover before it matters. Big-bang migrations are how weekends become incidents.
Related

Where to go next.

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Platforms built around your process.

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Data & AI Engineering

The foundation that makes models trustworthy.

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Managed Support

We stay after go-live.

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Next Step

Send us last month's cloud invoice. We will tell you what you are paying for twice.

A two-week platform review covers architecture, reliability, delivery pipeline and cost, and returns a prioritised plan with the saving and effort for each item.