Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps Services

We plan the foundations first: how we split your accounts and subscriptions, how we set up networks and access, where data lives and how the system grows with demand.

The result is a short design document your developers can read, with the reasons behind each choice. This is our cloud infrastructure design work, and it applies to a new build as much as a rebuild.

You can't repeat a setup that lives only in the console. We write your infrastructure as code, so a new environment is a command rather than a week of clicking.

We also build CI/CD pipelines that test and release your application the same way every time, with separate development, staging and production environments, release approvals and a rollback procedure. Our DevOps services give your developers faster, safer releases and fewer late-night fixes.

A pipeline that builds, tests and releases your code automatically. Infrastructure as code that we keep in version control and review like any other change. Separate environments, so testing never touches live customers. Secrets stored safely, not in code or chat messages. A rollback path for every release.

The goal isn't more tooling. It's releases that are boring, because they work the same way every time.

Moving to the cloud, or from one cloud to another, is mostly a planning job. We list what you run today, decide what to move first, rehearse the move in a safe environment and switch over with a rollback plan ready. Whether you're leaving an on-premises server or consolidating accounts, you'll know what happens on each day.

Rehosting (often called lift and shift) moves a system as it is. Replatforming moves it and swaps a few parts for managed services, such as a hosted database. Refactoring reshapes the application to suit the cloud.

Most teams mix the three. We decide system by system, based on what each one is worth and how much risk you can take.

Before any move we map dependencies, because the surprises are almost always in what talks to what. We then copy the system to the new environment, test it with realistic data and agree a cutover window with your team. The old environment stays available until you're happy.

If you'd rather not run it yourself, our managed cloud services cover monitoring and alerts, patching, access reviews and a monthly look at what you're paying for. For Azure and AWS alike, you get one named team to call when something looks wrong.

Our Azure cloud managed services and AWS support follow the same routine: monitoring and alerts, patching and updates, backup checks with tested restores, access reviews, a monthly cost review and a short report. You decide how much we take on. We agree support hours, response times and escalation contacts in the proposal, so you don't have to guess.

Many teams keep some systems on their own servers and put the rest in the cloud. We connect the two, manage how they share data and keep access rules consistent across both sides, so hybrid cloud management doesn't turn into two separate headaches.

Every business has a different answer to two questions: how long can you be down, and how much data can you afford to lose? We write those answers down, then design backups, replication and a recovery process to match. Then we test it, by restoring a system in a safe environment, so the plan is proven before you ever need it.

Security and automation sit alongside all of this. We can review what we build with our cybersecurity assessment team, and if you want to automate workflows on top of your new setup, our AI and automation services team can help.

Cloud infrastructure is the computing, storage and networking your software runs on, rented from a provider such as AWS or Microsoft Azure instead of bought and kept in your own office. You pay for what you use, and you can add or remove capacity in minutes.

Public cloud is shared infrastructure from a provider like AWS or Azure, and it suits most web products and growing teams. Private cloud serves one organisation, for strict control or data-handling needs. Hybrid cloud mixes your own servers with public cloud, connected together, for teams keeping some systems in-house.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) gives you virtual servers, storage and networks to configure yourself, for example Amazon EC2 or Azure Virtual Machines. Platform as a Service (PaaS) adds a managed layer for running your application. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a finished product, like the email or accounting tools you log in to.

We aren't an IaaS provider. AWS and Azure are. We design and run your setup on top of them, so the servers, networks and pipelines fit your product.

We work on both clouds, and we'll help you pick the one that suits your team. On AWS we build and look after Amazon EC2 with Auto Scaling, Amazon S3 and RDS, VPCs, load balancers and security groups, IAM roles and policies, CloudWatch and CloudTrail, CloudFormation or Terraform, and CodePipeline or GitHub Actions.

On Azure we work with Azure Virtual Machines and scale sets, Blob Storage and Azure SQL Database, virtual networks, Application Gateway and NSGs, Microsoft Entra ID and role assignments, Azure Monitor and activity logs, Bicep or Terraform, and Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.

If your data needs to stay in the UK, we can build in the AWS London region (eu-west-2) or Azure UK South. We'll agree the data location with you before we build anything.

A web application has different needs from an internal system. It must stay up when traffic spikes, deploy without downtime, and recover quickly when something fails. The same pattern works for a SaaS product, a customer portal or an online shop, and we adjust the size to match your traffic.

For web applications we typically set up a load balancer in front of two or more application servers, so one failure doesn't take you offline. We add autoscaling that adds capacity at busy times and removes it afterwards, and a managed database with automatic backups and a tested restore.

We also set up a content delivery network (CDN) and caching, so pages load quickly for users across the UK. You get separate staging and production environments, with releases that go out through a pipeline, and monitoring and alerts that tell you about a problem before your customers do.

No mystery setup that only we understand. You get the environments themselves, built as code in your own accounts, so you own them. You also get an architecture document that explains what we built and why, and release pipelines your developers can use from day one.

You get monitoring and alerts, with a clear list of who gets told what. Your team gets a handover session, plus written runbooks for the common jobs.

What changes in practice depends on where you start. During discovery we agree which outcomes matter to you, such as how often you can release, how fast you can recover and how clearly you can see your monthly cost. We treat these as things to measure, not results we can promise.