Cloud Development & Integration Services
Applications built for cloud infrastructure, and existing systems moved onto it - with data residency, predictable cost and deployment you can repeat.
What usually brings people here
The server is a single point of failure
One machine, one disk, one location. Backups exist but nobody has tested restoring from them.
Deployment is a manual ritual
Releases happen at night because they are risky, involve steps somebody remembers, and cannot be reversed quickly.
Cloud spend is unexplained
You moved to the cloud and the bill grew without anyone being able to say which workload is responsible.
What we build
Cloud-native application development
Applications designed for managed services, horizontal scaling and infrastructure that can be recreated from code.
Migration from on-premise
Moving existing systems to AWS or Azure in stages, with rollback available at each one.
Infrastructure as code
Environments defined in version control so staging matches production and rebuilding is a command rather than a memory.
CI/CD pipelines
Automated build, test and deploy - so releasing is routine rather than an event.
Cost and capacity review
Right-sizing, reserved capacity and identifying what is actually driving the bill.
Our approach
Decide residency first
For Canadian businesses with privacy obligations, where data physically lives is a requirement, not a detail. Both AWS and Azure have Canadian regions and we default to them.
Lift, then improve
Migrating first and re-architecting second is usually cheaper and far less risky than trying to do both at once.
Everything in code
Infrastructure defined in version control. Environments built by hand drift, and drift is what causes the outage nobody can explain.
Make cost visible
Tagging and budget alerts from day one, so spend is attributable before it becomes a surprise.
What we build with
Chosen for fit and for how easily another team could pick the work up, not for novelty.
What changes afterwards
Failure stops being catastrophic
Redundancy and tested restores replace one machine and an untested backup.
Releases become routine
Automated pipelines mean deploying in the afternoon rather than at midnight.
Spend becomes explainable
Tagging and alerts attribute cost to workloads before the bill arrives.
Where this work lands
Frequently asked
It can, and for most Canadian businesses it should. AWS and Azure both operate Canadian regions, and we default to them unless you have a reason to choose otherwise. Where you have PIPEDA or provincial obligations we document where each dataset resides.
Not automatically. It is more reliable, more flexible and removes hardware refresh cycles, but a badly configured cloud environment can cost more than the server it replaced. We size for your actual load and set up cost alerting rather than assuming.
We keep applications portable by default - containers and standard databases rather than deep dependence on a single vendor's proprietary services. Some managed services are worth the trade-off, and when we recommend one we will say what it costs you in portability.
Usually. The approach is to run old and new in parallel, move a portion of traffic, verify, and continue. Cutover becomes a series of small reversible steps.
We can, or we can hand it to your team with the infrastructure code, documentation and runbooks. It is your account and your infrastructure either way.
Services that pair with this
Custom Software Development Services
Software built around how your business actually works, rather than a product you have to reshape yourself to fit.
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Moving off a system that still works but has become expensive to keep - done in stages, with the business running throughout, rather than as a rewrite that takes two years and arrives late.
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Making the systems you already own talk to each other, so a piece of data is entered once and appears everywhere it is needed.
Read moreDiscuss your cloud development project
Describe the challenge in your own words. You will get a candid assessment of whether software is the right solution, what the work would involve, and a realistic cost range.