Cloud Architecture Sized for What You Actually Run
Infrastructure scaled to your real traffic, with the bill modelled before you commit and backups that have actually been restored.
Two failures account for most of the cloud work we are called in to fix. A setup built for a scale the company never reached, costing every month for capacity nobody uses. Or a setup that grew by accident, where one person knows how it works and nothing is written down.
What we build
- Infrastructure described in code, in your repository, so the environment can be rebuilt from scratch by someone who has never met us.
- A staging environment that actually matches production, because a test on a smaller, different machine tests something else.
- Backups with a restore that has been performed, timed and written down. An untested backup is a belief, not a safeguard.
- Monitoring and alerting that names the failing component, and reaches a person before your customers do.
- Managed services where they earn their premium, and plain servers where they do not.
The bill, before you commit
Cloud pricing punishes the surprised. We model the monthly cost at your current traffic and at ten times it, name the two or three lines that will grow fastest, and put a budget alert on them from day one. Egress, managed database storage and logging are the three that quietly become the invoice; they are almost never the ones people ask about.
Migrating without a bad weekend
- Inventory first: what runs, what it talks to, what nobody has touched in two years. The last category is usually the one that breaks.
- Move the stateless parts first. They are reversible, which makes the first step a rehearsal rather than a bet.
- Data last, with the cutover rehearsed on a copy and the rollback written down before anyone starts.
- Run both in parallel until the metrics on the new side are boring, then retire the old one on a date agreed in advance.
What it costs
- 1-2 weeks for an audit with a costed plan
- 10x the traffic we model your bill against
- 1 person who can rebuild it, and it is not us
The best infrastructure decision most companies can make is to run less of it.
Frequently asked questions
Which provider should we use?
Usually the one your team already understands, unless a specific requirement forces the choice. The differences between the major providers matter far less at your scale than whether the setup is documented and someone can operate it. We work across the main ones and will give you the trade-off in writing, including what it would cost to leave.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Almost certainly not. It solves a problem most companies do not have, and it adds an operational burden that is easy to underestimate and hard to reverse. Containers on a managed platform cover the vast majority of what people want Kubernetes for. If your case genuinely needs it, we will say so and show you the specific reason.
How do we stop the bill from growing?
Budget alerts on the two or three lines that actually scale, a monthly look at the largest ones, and a rule that anything new gets an estimated cost before it is deployed. Most runaway bills are not one bad decision; they are twelve small ones nobody attributed to anything.