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Cloud infrastructure that scales without the bill shock
The cloud promises elasticity and ends up delivering surprise invoices and fragile setups. We design, migrate and run cloud environments that are secure by default, sized to your real load and priced so finance stops flinching.
What cloud services covers
Teams either stay on servers they have outgrown or move to the cloud without a plan and inherit sprawl: unclear costs, weak security defaults and infrastructure only one person understands. Both paths slow the business down and put uptime at risk.
Cloud migration
Planned, staged moves from on-premise or legacy hosting to AWS, with rollback points at every stage and no big-bang cutover.
Architecture design
Environments designed around your actual workloads: networking, scaling, backups and disaster recovery documented and testable.
Cost optimisation
We audit your bill line by line, right-size instances, fix storage waste and put budgets and alerts in place. Savings of 25 to 40 percent are typical.
Security and compliance
Identity, encryption, network isolation and audit logging configured to meet POPIA and your industry's requirements.
Managed hosting
We run the environment for you: patching, monitoring, backups and incident response with agreed response times.
Serverless and containers
Container platforms and serverless functions where they fit, so you pay for usage instead of idle servers.
What you walk away with
Every cloud services engagement ends with assets you own outright: code, designs, documentation and the knowledge to run them. No black boxes, no lock-in.
- A cloud readiness assessment with a staged migration plan
- Production environment defined in infrastructure-as-code
- Security baseline report mapped to POPIA requirements
- Monitoring dashboards and alerting for cost and uptime
- Tested backup and disaster recovery runbooks
- A monthly cost model finance can actually read
Tools we reach for
Mature, well-documented technology your next hire will already know.
Cloud platforms
AWS
Firebase
DigitalOcean
CloudflareInfrastructure
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
NginxLLinuxData and ops
PostgreSQL
Redis
Elasticsearch
Grafana
PrometheusHow it runs
Assess
We audit your current systems, workloads, costs and risks, then produce a staged plan with effort and savings attached to each step.
Results from this practice
Straight answers on cloud services
What does a cloud migration cost?
A single-application migration typically runs R150,000 to R400,000. Multi-system enterprise migrations range from R500,000 to R1.5 million. The assessment phase, around R60,000 to R90,000, gives you the exact number before you commit.
How much downtime should we expect?
For most migrations, minutes rather than hours. We stage the move, run old and new in parallel where possible, and cut over during agreed low-traffic windows with a tested rollback ready.
Can you reduce our existing cloud bill without a migration?
Yes. A standalone cost audit takes 2 to 3 weeks and usually finds 25 to 40 percent in savings from right-sizing, reserved capacity and storage cleanup. If we find less than the audit fee in annual savings, we say so plainly.
Do you handle POPIA compliance in the cloud?
We configure the technical controls POPIA expects: encryption at rest and in transit, access control, audit logs and data residency choices. We work with your legal or compliance advisor on the policy side; we do not replace them.
Pairs well with
Put cloud services to work in your business
A free 45-minute consultation with an engineer. You leave with options and honest numbers.