Managed Cloud Services for Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Private Cloud

Your in-house cloud team, without the salary

Moving to the cloud removes the hardware, not the responsibility. Somebody still needs to look after the environment, keep it secure, watch the bill, and deal with the suppliers when something goes wrong. In many businesses that somebody is a developer doing it between other jobs, or nobody at all. Hiring a dedicated cloud engineer fixes it, at the cost of a full salary.

Cloud Estate Management gives you the alternative. Use us as your in-house cloud staff: a named consultant who knows your setup, a team of specialists behind them, and only the hours you actually need. Most businesses find it costs a small fraction of a hire, and the cost savings we find in your estate often pay for a good part of it.

Fixed fee, from £50 a month

• A fixed monthly fee, starting from £50. It’s driven by the support hours you need, not by the size of your estate or the size of your cloud bill.
• You choose the level. A light plan for keeping an eye on a small environment, or more hours when you want us working as an extension of your team. You can change it as your needs change.
• Agreed in writing before we start. You know the hours, what they cover and the price.
• Your cloud bill stays with you. The provider invoices your usage directly to you. We never mark it up or resell it.
• Projects are quoted separately. Migrations, new builds and larger changes are agreed as fixed prices of their own.

What your hours get you

Day-to-day management

Monitoring, patching, backups and restores, access changes, user requests and fixing what breaks, handled as a routine so it stops landing on your own team.

Security hardening

We review how your environment is set up and tighten it: who has access to what, how people sign in, how networks are exposed, how data is protected and how you would find out if something went wrong. We fix the gaps in priority order and keep the environment hardened as it changes, rather than leaving a one-off report to go stale.

Cost optimisation

We look for waste and prevent it coming back: machines running that nobody uses, resources bigger than they need to be, forgotten test environments, unused storage and unnecessary licences. We set budgets and alerts so a surprise bill can’t sneak up on you, and we review spend regularly with recommendations you can act on.

Vendor liaison

We deal with your suppliers so you don’t have to. That means cloud providers, software vendors, resellers and support desks: raising and chasing tickets, escalating when answers aren’t good enough, reviewing renewals and pricing, and turning technical replies into plain English. One point of contact on your side, and one on ours.

Advice and planning

Someone to ask before you commit. Whether a change is safe, whether a service is worth the price, how to plan capacity, what a migration would involve, and what to do when the business wants something new from the cloud.

Documentation and reporting

An up-to-date picture of what you have, where it lives and why, in plain language, owned by you. A regular report on what we did, what we found, what it costs and what we recommend.

Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and private cloud

We work across all the major public clouds, private cloud and on-premises virtualisation, and the gaps between them. If you use more than one, we manage them together as one estate, with one set of standards, one report and one point of contact. Tell us what you run and we’ll tell you honestly whether we’re the right fit.

Getting started

1. Estate review. We look at what you have, who can reach it, how it’s secured and backed up, and what it costs, and we report honestly on what we find.
2. Hours and fee agreed. You get a clear monthly price and a plain-English description of what is covered, before anything is signed.
3. Onboarding. We’re given delegated access and fix the urgent issues first, usually security gaps and obvious waste.
4. Steady state. Ongoing management, optimisation and reporting, with a named consultant who knows your setup.

You stay in control

• You own every account, subscription and project, always
• We use delegated, least-privilege access that you can review and revoke
• Changes are recorded, and anything significant is agreed with you first
• Everything we document and configure is yours to take with you, with no lock-in

Who this is for

• Small and mid-sized businesses running real workloads in the cloud without a dedicated cloud team
• Organisations that can’t justify, or can’t recruit, a full-time cloud engineer
• Businesses that started in one cloud and now have two, or have a private server room as well
• Teams whose original cloud builder has moved on and who aren’t sure what is running
• Anyone who has opened a surprising bill and wants it not to happen again
• IT providers and software firms who need a dependable specialist for the cloud side of their clients’ estates

Works with our other services

• Supportive Hosting when you’d rather we host it for you
• DevOps for automated builds, deployments and infrastructure as code
• Legacy Application Support for older systems that need a safe place to run
• IT Consulting when you need an architecture or a migration plan