Platform
Cloud and DevOps Services
Infrastructure, deployment pipelines and monitoring set up so that shipping is routine. If releasing makes your team nervous, that is an engineering problem with a solution.
The short answer
What is cloud & devops?
Cloud and DevOps work covers how software gets built, deployed, run and observed: the infrastructure it runs on, the pipeline that ships it, the monitoring that tells you it is healthy, and the recovery path when it is not.
The test is simple. If deploying is a scheduled, out-of-hours event that a specific person has to be present for, the pipeline is the constraint on how fast you can improve anything. Fixing that usually returns more than any individual feature.
Scope
What we build
Cloud infrastructure
Environments defined as code, so they can be rebuilt rather than remembered.
CI/CD pipelines
Automated build, test and deploy with a rollback that has actually been tested.
Containerisation
Docker, and orchestration where the scale genuinely warrants it.
Monitoring and alerting
Metrics, logs and alerts that fire on real problems rather than on noise.
Cost optimisation
Finding what you are paying for and no longer using — usually a substantial share.
Migration
Moving from shared hosting or an ageing server to managed cloud infrastructure.
Why teams call us
Business problems this solves
If more than two of these describe your situation, the problem is usually structural rather than cosmetic.
- Deployments done manually, out of hours, by one person
- No staging environment that resembles production
- Cloud bills rising with no clear explanation
- Outages discovered by customers rather than by monitoring
- Servers configured by hand over years and impossible to reproduce
- No tested backup or recovery procedure
How it works
Our process
- 01
Infrastructure review
What exists, what it costs, what depends on it, and where the risks sit.
- 02
Target design
Environments, networking, data stores and scaling approach sized to real load.
- 03
Infrastructure as code
Defining it so environments are reproducible and changes are reviewable.
- 04
Pipeline
Automated build, test, deploy and rollback — with rollback actually exercised.
- 05
Observability
Metrics, logs, traces, uptime checks and alerting with sensible thresholds.
- 06
Handover
Runbooks, access, escalation paths and training for whoever operates it.
What you get
Deliverables and features
Deliverables
- Infrastructure defined as code
- Staging and production environments
- CI/CD pipeline with automated tests and rollback
- Monitoring, logging and alerting
- Backup and tested restore procedure
- Security baseline — access control, secrets management, TLS
- Cost review with specific reductions identified
- Runbooks and operational documentation
Features
- Reproducible environments from version-controlled definitions
- Automated deployment on merge, with rollback
- Zero-downtime releases
- Autoscaling where load genuinely varies
- Centralised logs and error tracking
- Uptime monitoring and on-call alerting
- Automated backups with restore actually tested
- Secrets management outside the codebase
Stack
Technologies we use
We choose tools for the next three years, not the next three months — and we document why, so your next developer is not guessing.
- AWS
- Docker
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- Nginx
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- CloudFront
- Vercel
- Grafana
- Sentry
How we think about it
Our approach
Performance and security
Infrastructure sets the ceiling application work cannot exceed. Origin response time, database query performance, caching strategy and CDN configuration decide what the front end has left to work with. We measure at the infrastructure layer as well as in the browser, because a fast page served slowly is still slow.
Search considerations
Hosting affects search directly. Server response time is a Core Web Vitals input, downtime during a crawl can cost indexation, and redirect handling at the infrastructure layer decides whether a migration keeps its visibility. We treat these as shared ground with SEO rather than someone else's concern.
Budget
What drives the cost
We do not publish price ranges, because a number given before we understand the work is not a real one. These are the factors that actually move it.
- Current infrastructure complexity and its condition
- Number of environments and services
- Availability requirements and whether redundancy is needed
- Compliance or data-residency constraints
- Whether we hand over operations or continue running them
After a discovery conversation we give a fixed scope and a fixed number before any work begins.
Related
Services that go with this
Custom Software Development
Internal platforms, portals, dashboards and workflow tools modelled on how your operation actually runs — not on how packaged software assumes it should.
Website Maintenance
Security updates, dependency hygiene, backups, monitoring and the small changes that keep accumulating. A site is a system that is running, not a project that finished.
Dedicated Developers
A team working only on your product, month after month. The value is not the capacity — it is the accumulated knowledge of your domain that a rotating team never builds.
Ecommerce Development
Catalogue, search, checkout, payments, shipping and order management — on Shopify, WooCommerce, or a custom build when your model does not fit a platform.
Questions
Cloud & DevOps — frequently asked
Which cloud provider should we use?
AWS is our default because of its breadth and our depth in it, but the right answer depends on your workload, team and budget. For many smaller products a managed platform is cheaper and simpler than raw cloud infrastructure, and we will say so when that is true.
Can you reduce our cloud bill?
Usually, yes. The common causes are over-provisioned instances, storage nobody deleted, unused environments left running, and data transfer patterns nobody examined. We audit and give you specific reductions with the risk of each stated.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Probably not. Kubernetes solves real problems at real scale and adds significant operational burden below it. Most products are better served by managed container services or a straightforward deployment. We recommend it only when the complexity is genuinely warranted.
Can you work with our existing infrastructure?
Yes. We start with a review rather than a rebuild proposal — improving what exists is frequently the better return, and a migration nobody needed is an expensive way to make things unfamiliar.
What about security?
Baseline work covers access control and least privilege, secrets kept out of code, TLS everywhere, patched dependencies, network segmentation and audit logging. We do not perform formal penetration testing; where you need it we will tell you and work with the results.
Who operates it after handover?
Your choice. We hand over runbooks, access and training so your team can run it, or we continue operating it under a support arrangement. Either way the documentation is written as though we are leaving.
Start here
Ready to talk about cloud & devops?
Tell us what you are trying to achieve and what you are working with. We will come back with an honest view of scope, approach and whether we are the right fit.