Infrastructure / Cloud
Cloud Infrastructure
A cloud estate is infrastructure, not a shopping cart. Designed on purpose, it is a superpower; accreted by default, it is a bill with root access.
Designed, not accreted
Most cloud estates were never designed. They accumulated — an account per emergency, IAM by copy-paste, networks that reflect the order in which teams panicked. Everything works, and everything is fragile, expensive and unexplainable to an auditor. The fix is architecture, applied retroactively.
What advised covers
- Landing zones and account architecture — blast-radius isolation, sane defaults, an estate a new team can join without a wiki archaeology project.
- Identity as the perimeter. Human and workload identity designed once, federated properly, with least privilege that survives real delivery pressure.
- Networking — hub-and-spoke or mesh chosen on evidence; egress architected, since egress is both a security boundary and a line item.
- Guardrails over gatekeepers. Policy-as-code that makes the wrong thing hard instead of making every deploy a meeting.
We hold cloud certifications and hyperscaler partnerships where they serve delivery — and the conflict-of-interest policy still applies: our verdict on where your workloads belong is not for sale.