Cloud infrastructure and reliability
We set up the cloud environments, containers and deployment pipelines your system runs on, and the monitoring, backups and failover that keep it running. Everything is defined as code, so environments can be reviewed, rebuilt and repeated.
What we do
- Cloud environments defined as code Networks, compute, databases, queues and permissions written as code, reviewed like any other change, and identical between staging and production.
- Deployment pipelines and container orchestration Build, test and deploy on every change, with rollbacks that take a minute rather than an evening.
- Monitoring and alerting Metrics, logs and traces across the platform, with alerts on what users feel (errors, latency, growing backlogs) rather than on every blip.
- Backups, failover and recovery testing Backups restored on a schedule to prove they work, and failover exercised before it is needed.
- Cost and access control Budgets and alerts on spend, least-privilege access, and secrets kept out of the code.
When you need this
- Your system runs on servers somebody set up by hand, and nobody dares to touch them.
- Deployments are manual, slow or risky, so releases are rare and large.
- You find out about outages from your users.
- You need a second region, a disaster recovery plan or compliance evidence, and the current setup cannot provide it.
How an engagement works
- Review The current environments, their risks and what they cost.
- Define as code We rebuild the environments from code, next to the old ones, and migrate in steps.
- Pipelines and observability Automated deployments, dashboards and alerts, tuned until they are quiet when nothing is wrong.
- Prove it We restore a backup, fail over, measure the recovery time and hand over the runbooks.
What you get
- Infrastructure code for every environment, in your cloud accounts
- A deployment pipeline with automated tests and rollback
- Dashboards, alerts and on-call runbooks
- A tested backup and recovery procedure, with the recovery time measured
- A cost overview and the controls to keep it predictable
Related work
Common questions
Which cloud providers do you work with?
The major providers, and we work in the one your team already uses or has credits with. The infrastructure is defined as code either way, so the practices are the same.
Do you take over operations after launch?
We can, under time and materials, or we hand over to your team with runbooks and a walkthrough. Either way, monitoring and alerting are in place before launch.
Can you move us off manually managed servers?
Yes. We describe the current setup as code, build the new environment next to the old one, move traffic over in steps and keep the old environment until you are confident.
How do you keep cloud costs under control?
Right-sized resources, scaling rules that follow load, budgets with alerts, and a review of the bill as part of the engagement, so spend tracks traffic instead of growing on its own.