Cloud & Infrastructure
Your infrastructure should be reliable, secure, and cost-effective. We help businesses move to the cloud, automate their deployments, and maintain systems they can depend on.
Who needs infrastructure help?
We work with businesses that don't have a dedicated DevOps or infrastructure team, but run systems that matter to their operations. Often this means:
- →Development teams focused on features who don't have time to properly manage infrastructure
- →Companies still running on physical servers or legacy hosting that want to modernise
- →Businesses whose cloud bills have grown faster than expected and want to optimise
- →Teams who deploy manually and want to automate for reliability and speed
What we actually do
Cloud migration
Moving workloads from on-premise or legacy hosting to Azure or AWS. This isn't just lift-and-shift. We redesign where it makes sense to take advantage of cloud-native services, while being pragmatic about what can simply be moved as-is.
CI/CD pipelines
Automated build, test, and deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI. Every code change goes through the same process: tested automatically, deployed to staging, then production with one click (or automatically if you prefer).
Infrastructure as Code
Your infrastructure defined in Terraform or ARM/Bicep templates. This means it's version controlled, reproducible, and you can spin up new environments (staging, testing, disaster recovery) reliably and quickly.
Ongoing management
Monitoring, patching, backups, and incident response. We set up alerts for the metrics that matter and respond when things go wrong. For many clients, this is more cost-effective than hiring in-house.
Azure or AWS?
Both are excellent platforms with similar capabilities. We have experience with both and can work with either based on your situation. That said, a few factors often point toward one or the other:
Azure tends to fit when:
- You're already using Microsoft 365 or Dynamics
- Your development team works in .NET
- You need Active Directory integration
- You have Microsoft licensing agreements
AWS tends to fit when:
- You need specific AWS services (Lambda, DynamoDB, etc.)
- Your team already has AWS experience
- You're building with serverless architecture
- You need presence in specific global regions
Security and compliance
We don't treat security as an add-on. Basic security practices are part of how we set up any infrastructure.
- Principle of least privilege for access control
- Encryption at rest and in transit
- Network segmentation and firewall rules
- Regular patching and vulnerability scanning
- Backup testing and documented recovery procedures
If you have specific compliance requirements (ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials, GDPR technical controls), we can help ensure your infrastructure meets them. We hold ISO 27001 certification ourselves.
What does this cost?
Project work
Migrations, pipeline setup, and infrastructure redesign are scoped and quoted as projects. While a typical CI/CD pipeline setup is straightforward to setup. A full cloud migration depends heavily on complexity.
Managed services
Ongoing management is typically a monthly retainer based on the complexity of your environment. This covers monitoring, incident response, patching, and a number of hours for changes and improvements.
Cloud costs (Azure/AWS bills) are separate and paid directly to the provider. We can help optimise these.