Cloud & DevOps

Cloud Set-Up Sized to Your Stage

A simple, secure cloud set-up for your MVP that a small team can run, in accounts you own, with automated releases so you can ship often, and budgets and alerts from the first deploy so the bill grows with your users rather than ahead of them.

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<1%
Of UK cloud customers switch provider each year, so the first choice matters
Source: CMA, July 2025 (opens in a new tab)
29%
Estimated wasted cloud spend, rising for the first time in five years
Source: Flexera, March 2026 (opens in a new tab)

What you get at each stage

Sized to where your product is now, and built so the next stage adds to it rather than starting again.

  1. Idea & validation

    Start simple and keep the bill small

    • Provider choice based on your stack, skills and data needs
    • Help applying to the large providers’ startup credit programmes
    • Managed services and serverless where they fit
    • Budgets and spend alerts from the first deploy

  2. MVP & launch

    Release often without breaking things

    • Automated build, test and deploy pipelines
    • Infrastructure as code, so environments can be rebuilt
    • Preview environments and staged rollouts
    • Backups, uptime checks and basic alerting

  3. Growth & scale

    Stay reliable and affordable as usage grows

    • Metrics, logs and tracing in one place
    • Service level objectives and incident runbooks
    • Right-sizing, autoscaling and commitment discounts
    • Security reviews against the NCSC cloud security principles

What is included

Startup cloud set-up

Accounts, networking, identity and environments on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud, sized for a small team.

CI/CD pipelines

Every change built, tested, scanned and deployed automatically, with a quick way to roll back.

Infrastructure as code

Version-controlled Terraform, so environments can be rebuilt on demand or moved if you need to.

Monitoring and reliability

Uptime checks, dashboards, alerts and runbooks, so problems are spotted and handled quickly.

Cost control

Budgets, alerts and cost reporting by service, with regular right-sizing reviews.

Startup credit applications

Help applying to the startup credit programmes run by the large cloud providers.

Everything in Cloud & DevOps

8 services. Take one or combine several: we size each to your stage and agree the scope and a fixed price before work starts.

Cloud services

  • Cloud architectureHosting designed for your product, budget and growth, in accounts you own.
  • CI/CD pipelinesAutomated testing and deployment for frequent, safe releases.
  • Infrastructure as codeEnvironments defined in version control, so they can be rebuilt or moved.
  • ContainersApplications packaged to deploy and scale consistently, when the product needs it.
  • Cloud securityYour infrastructure, secrets and data protected.
  • MonitoringPerformance and uptime watched, with alerts before users notice.
  • Cost optimisationA smaller cloud bill without losing performance or reliability.
  • Cloud migrationA prototype or older set-up moved to new hosting with minimal disruption.

Scope it free, then build it

Your MVP brief is the brief

The brief you write in the free MVP builder is what we quote from. It tells us who the product is for, the Must-have features, the main journeys and the budget, so work on Cloud & DevOps starts from your brief, not a blank page. It fits these stages:

In your brief

The sections it builds on

  • Build approach
  • Budget and runway
Write these sections free in the MVP builder

For established companies

New products and ventures, scoped first

Established companies use the same service to move workloads off ageing servers or hosting contracts, automate slow manual releases, test a disaster recovery plan for real, or bring a growing cloud bill back under control. The work happens in small, reversible steps, with a rehearsed cutover and a rollback plan for anything that moves.

Tell us about your project

Questions founders ask

Can you help us get cloud credits?

The large cloud providers run startup credit programmes, and we help founders apply. Each provider sets its own eligibility and amounts, and these change, so we check what applies to you rather than promise a figure. Credits do not last, so we design the set-up to stay affordable once they are gone.

Do we need Kubernetes?

Usually not at the start. For a handful of services, a managed container platform or serverless functions are simpler and cheaper to run. Kubernetes earns its place when you run many services or need fine control over scaling.

Can our data stay in the UK?

Yes. AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all run UK regions, and we configure storage, databases and backups to use them. Where a service processes data elsewhere, we identify it and check that the right safeguards for international transfers under UK GDPR are in place.

Is hosting part of the MVP build?

Yes. When we build your MVP, hosting, backups, monitoring and automated releases are set up as part of it, in accounts you own. This service is for products that need more: several environments, staged rollouts, a migration or a growing bill to bring under control.

Who does the cloud work?

Our own team, the same people who build our MVPs: one brief, one point of contact and no hand-offs between agencies.

Scope your MVP free. Build it with us.

Start your brief in the free MVP builder: no sign-up, and it saves on your own device as you go. When it is ready, we price it as a fixed scope and build it, with brand, company set-up and launch alongside.

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