IT outsourcing
Cloud and DevOps
Managed infrastructure with real automation and cost control from month one.
In summary: migration, management and optimisation of infrastructure on the main public clouds, with infrastructure as code, deployment automation and monitoring. Cost control is part of scope, not an extra.
Cloud has two distinct problems that often get conflated: a technical one, that the infrastructure works, and an economic one, that it does not cost twice what was planned. The second rarely appears in the initial scope and almost always appears in month four.
So cost review is included from the start, with a monthly spend report by service and specific recommendations.
What is included
According to the scope agreed in the proposal.
- Migration of infrastructure to public cloud
- Infrastructure as code, versioned in your repository
- Deployment automation and continuous integration pipelines
- Monitoring, alerting and incident management
- Periodic cost review with optimisation recommendations
- Backups and recovery procedures documented and tested
What is not included
Worth delimiting before signing.
- The cost of cloud services, which you contract and pay to the provider directly
- Development of the deployed application, which is contracted separately
- The cloud provider's availability guarantee, governed by its own agreement
- Compliance certification we do not hold, which we neither issue nor attest
Where it is delivered from
From Poland for work requiring EU data residency and synchronous coordination, or from Uzbekistan for platform work measured by delivery.
In cloud it is worth separating two things that get mixed: where the administering team sits and where the data sits. You choose the cloud region and it can be European regardless of which hub the team works from, though administrative access is still processing that has to be documented.
Frequently asked questions
Do you contract the cloud or do we?
Usual and recommended is that you contract it directly. You keep account ownership, the provider relationship and control of spend, and avoid being tied to an intermediary.
How is cost controlled?
Monthly spend reporting by service, variance alerts and specific recommendations. The most common savings are oversized resources and non-production environments left running out of hours.
Can you work on infrastructure that already exists?
Yes, and that is most common. The first phase documents the infrastructure as it actually is, which usually differs from the existing documentation.
Do you test recovery procedures?
Yes, and it is worth insisting on this with any provider. A backup that has never been restored in a test is an assumption, not a safeguard.
Want to get your cloud infrastructure in order?
Tell us what you have deployed today and what worries you more, cost or reliability.