Cloud & Backend Architecture

Infrastructure that scales — and costs less.

Scalable backends, cloud architecture, DevOps and cost optimization on AWS, Azure and GCP, so your product stays fast, secure and affordable as it grows.

Lower
cloud spend after audit
IaC
everything in code
24/7
monitoring & alerts
What you get

Everything to go from idea to production.

01

Architecture design

Services, data and event flows designed for scale.

02

Cost optimization

Right-sizing, reserved capacity and waste removal.

03

DevOps & CI/CD

Automated builds, tests and zero-downtime deploys.

04

Infrastructure as code

Terraform or Pulumi for repeatable environments.

05

Security & compliance

IAM, encryption, backups and SOC 2 readiness.

06

Observability

Logs, metrics, tracing and on-call alerting.

How we deliver

  1. STEP 01

    Audit

    Current cost, risk and bottlenecks.

  2. STEP 02

    Design

    Target architecture and plan.

  3. STEP 03

    Migrate

    Phased, zero-downtime moves.

  4. STEP 04

    Operate

    Monitor, optimise, support.

Stack by category

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP

Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Docker

Data

  • Kafka

Observability

  • Datadog

Industries

Build or buy

Managed platform or your own cloud architecture?

Managed platforms are the right start. Own the architecture once cost or limits start to hurt.

Your situationOur recommendation
An early product with a small teamStay on a managed platform like Vercel or Firebase
Growing traffic across several servicesContainers on your cloud, defined in code
Spiky or event-driven workloadsServerless functions and queues
A cloud bill growing faster than usageCost audit first

Our recommendation: stay managed until the bill or the limits hurt, then move to infrastructure you own, in code.

Typical engagement

What cloud work costs and how long it takes.

  1. 01 · 2 weeks

    Discovery Sprint

    $5,000
    fixed fee · 2 weeks

    An audit of current cost, risk and bottlenecks, with a target architecture and migration plan.

  2. 02 · 6–16 weeks

    Fixed-Price Build

    $25k–$120k
    per project · 6–16 weeks

    Phased migration or new backend, all infrastructure as code, with zero-downtime deploys.

  3. 03 · Ongoing

    Dedicated Team

    From $12k
    per month · cancel anytime

    Monitoring, cost reviews and on-call support with agreed response times.

What moves the price: the number of services, environments and data stores, and how much downtime the migration can tolerate. Compare engagement models

Selected work

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FAQ

Common questions.

Can you reduce our cloud bill?

Usually, yes. Most audits find savings from right-sizing, reserved capacity and unused resources.

Do you migrate between clouds?

Yes, in planned phases with rollback paths and no downtime.

Do you provide on-call support?

Yes, through a monthly support retainer with agreed response times.

How much does cloud architecture work cost?

Most engagements start with a 2-week Discovery Sprint ($5,000 fixed fee, credited to your build), followed by a fixed-price build ($25k–$120k per project, 6–16 weeks) or a dedicated team (from $12k per month). The build price is fixed after discovery and billed in milestones tied to demoed features. For cloud work, the Discovery Sprint is the audit and target architecture. Your cloud provider bills you directly, in your own account, for the infrastructure itself.

How long does a cloud migration take?

The audit and target architecture take two weeks. A phased migration is a fixed-price build of 6–16 weeks, moving one service at a time with a rollback path at each step.

Which cloud should we choose: AWS, Azure or GCP?

Usually the one your team, customers and credits already favour. Azure suits Microsoft-heavy companies and Azure OpenAI; AWS has the widest service range and Bedrock; GCP is strong for data and Vertex AI. We keep core services portable.

How do you control LLM inference costs?

By routing simple requests to smaller models, caching repeated prompts and embeddings, batching background jobs, setting per-feature budgets with alerts, and self-hosting models only where volume justifies the GPU cost.

Who owns the infrastructure and the access?

You do. Everything runs in your cloud accounts and is defined in Terraform or Pulumi in your repository, so environments are reproducible and nothing depends on our access.

Do you help with SOC 2 readiness?

Yes, on the technical side: IAM, encryption, backups, logging and change management set up the way auditors expect. The audit itself is done by an independent firm; we are not an auditor.