Cloud Services
Cloud Architecture & Infrastructure as Code
Environments defined in code and rebuilt on demand
An environment that was built by hand can only be rebuilt from memory. We design cloud architectures and define them in code, so every environment is reviewed like software, reproducible on demand, and understood by more than the one person who set it up.
- Architecture design
- Infrastructure as code
- Environment parity
- Containers and orchestration
- Resilience and backup
- Guardrails and policies
Why it matters
If it is not in code, it is not repeatable. Infrastructure as code turns your environment from a mystery into something you can read, review and rebuild.
What this includes
Six parts of the work. Which of them you need depends on where you are starting from, and we agree that before anything is built.
- 01
Architecture design
Cloud architectures sized for your workloads, with security, resilience and cost considered from the start.
- 02
Infrastructure as code
Networks, compute, databases and permissions defined in reviewed, version-controlled code.
- 03
Environment parity
Development, test and production built from the same code, so what works in test works in production.
- 04
Containers and orchestration
Containerized workloads on managed services, sized and scaled to demand.
- 05
Resilience and backup
Multi-zone designs, backups and recovery procedures that are tested, not assumed.
- 06
Guardrails and policies
Automated policies that stop insecure or non-compliant resources before they are created.
Not sure which of these you need?
Tell us where things stand for you today and we will suggest where to start.
How we deliver it
Four stages, agreed with you before the work starts, with a working result at the end of each rather than one reveal at the end.
Understand the workloads
We review what runs today, its growth, and your security and availability needs.
Design
We document the target architecture and the decisions behind it.
Codify
Infrastructure is written as modules and deployed through reviewed pipelines.
Validate and hand over
We test recovery, run through operations with your team and hand over the code.
The stack
Technologies we work with
The tools we reach for most often in this work. We fit in with what you already run rather than asking you to change it.
3 groups
- 01 / 034
Infrastructure as code
- Terraform
- AWS CloudFormation
- Bicep
- Pulumi
- 02 / 034
Containers
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Amazon ECS
- Azure Container Apps
- 03 / 033
Clouds
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
What you receive
Yours to keep when the engagement ends, whether we carry on working together or not.
An architecture document
Diagrams and the reasoning behind each major decision.
Infrastructure code
Reusable modules in your repository, ready to deploy any environment.
Deployment pipelines
Automated plan-and-apply workflows with review before changes go live.
Tested recovery steps
Backup and restore procedures that have actually been run.
Common questions
The ones that come up in almost every first conversation about this work.
Yes. Existing resources can be imported into infrastructure as code step by step, without rebuilding everything at once.
Terraform suits multi-cloud or larger teams, while CloudFormation or Bicep fit single-cloud setups well. We recommend based on your team and platform.
The code is structured, documented and reviewed with your team throughout, and we finish with a walkthrough of common changes.
Let's talk about Architecture & IaC
A short call is usually enough to work out whether we can help and where it makes sense to start. No preparation needed.