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Cloud infrastructure gets sold as a cost saving and often turns into an unexplainable bill and a deploy process everyone is frightened of. We build the version you can reason about: defined in code, cheap to change, and understood by more than one person.

What it covers

AWS, Azure and GCP. Infrastructure as code, CI/CD that runs on every commit, monitoring that pages the right person, and a cost line you can explain to your CFO.

  • Cloud architecture and migration
  • Infrastructure as code
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitoring, backup and cost control

How we approach it

Infrastructure as code, or it didn't happen
Anything clicked together in a web console is undocumented and unreproducible. Your environment lives in version control, so it can be reviewed, rebuilt and rolled back like any other change.
Right-sized for the company you are
Most businesses do not need a multi-region Kubernetes estate, and paying for one buys complexity rather than reliability. We build to the scale you're at, with a clear path to the next one when you get there.
Monitoring that means something
Alerts tied to things your customers would actually notice, routed to a person who can act. An alarm nobody responds to is worse than no alarm at all — it teaches the team to ignore the channel.

Where we differ

Why bring this to us rather than anyone else.

We optimise your bill, including against ourselves
Cloud spend quietly grows through idle resources and oversized instances. We treat the invoice as something we're accountable for and explain each line — even where the honest advice reduces the work we're billing for.
No dependence on us to deploy
Your team should be able to ship without booking our time. We hand over a pipeline and documentation designed for that, and we consider it a failure if you still need us for routine releases.
Portable by default
We use managed services where they earn their keep, but avoid designs that would take a year to unpick if you ever needed to move. Being able to leave is what keeps a vendor relationship honest — ours included.

When to call us

You probably need this if…

  • Deploys happen out of hours because everyone's afraid of them
  • The cloud bill goes up every month and nobody can explain the increase
  • One person is the only one who knows how the environment fits together
  • You're on physical servers and the hardware refresh is coming

Questions

AWS, Azure or GCP?
Whichever fits your team, your existing licences and your compliance requirements. All three are capable; the deciding factor is usually what your people already know and what your enterprise agreements cover.
Can you migrate us without downtime?
Usually with very little, by running old and new in parallel and cutting over once the new path is proven. Where a genuine outage window is unavoidable, we tell you up front rather than discovering it on the night.

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Next step

Tell us what you are trying to fix.

A couple of paragraphs is plenty. We will tell you honestly whether this is the right service for it, and whether we are the right team — usually within two working days.

Start a projector email connect@riftwaretechnologies.com