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Cloud, Data & Reliability

Cloud done deliberately, not accumulated

Most cloud environments were not designed. They grew, one urgent decision at a time, until nobody could explain the bill or the blast radius.
Engagement
Assessment then project or managed service
Typical timeline
4–16 weeks depending on scope
Delivered across
All 50 US states

Overview

Cloud infrastructure rewards architecture and punishes drift. Environments that grew organically typically show the same pattern: over-provisioned instances running at 8% utilization, orphaned resources nobody will delete without knowing what breaks, security groups opened during an incident and never closed, and no reliable way to recreate any of it.

We design and rebuild environments as code. Everything defined in Terraform, every change reviewed, every environment reproducible. That converts infrastructure from institutional memory into a versioned artifact — which makes disaster recovery, environment cloning and compliance evidence straightforward rather than heroic.

Cost work is usually the fastest return. Right-sizing, storage tiering, reserved capacity and killing unused resources routinely cut bills 30–50% with no performance impact, which frequently pays for the entire engagement.

Typical cloud spend reduction from optimization
30–50%Typical cloud spend reduction from optimization
Infrastructure defined as reproducible code
100%Infrastructure defined as reproducible code
Disaster recovery with measured RTO and RPO
TestedDisaster recovery with measured RTO and RPO

Business benefits

What cloud solutions changes for you

The reasons this work earns its budget, stated as outcomes rather than features.

Infrastructure as code

Every resource defined in Terraform and version-controlled, so environments are reproducible and changes are reviewable.

Cost brought under control

Right-sizing, commitment planning, storage lifecycle and waste elimination, with per-team tagging so spend has an owner.

Security baseline enforced

Network segmentation, least-privilege IAM, encryption, secrets management and continuous configuration scanning.

Recovery actually tested

Backup, replication and failover with documented objectives and rehearsals — an untested recovery plan is a hypothesis.

Scaling that follows demand

Autoscaling and managed services tuned to real traffic patterns so capacity tracks load in both directions.

Migration without the outage

Phased migration with parallel running, tested cutover and rollback plans, sequenced by risk rather than convenience.

Problems solved

If any of this sounds familiar

These are the situations clients describe in the first conversation, and what we do about each.

    Our cloud bill grows faster than our business.

    Cost analysis by service and team, then right-sizing, commitment purchases and waste removal — commonly a 30–50% reduction.

    Nobody can recreate our production environment.

    Codify existing infrastructure in Terraform, then use it to stand up identical staging and DR environments.

    We failed a security assessment on cloud configuration.

    Baseline against CIS benchmarks, remediate findings, and add continuous scanning so drift is caught rather than accumulated.

    Traffic spikes take the site down.

    Load testing to find the real limit, then autoscaling, caching and queueing designed against your actual traffic shape.

Our process

How we deliver it

Each stage has a defined output, so you always know what you are getting and when.
  1. 01

    Assessment

    Current architecture, cost breakdown, security posture and reliability gaps documented with prioritized findings.

  2. 02

    Target architecture

    Design covering networking, compute, data, security and cost model, with a migration or remediation sequence.

  3. 03

    Codify

    Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines and environment parity established before major changes are attempted.

  4. 04

    Migrate or remediate

    Phased execution with testing at each stage, parallel running where warranted, and rollback available throughout.

  5. 05

    Operate

    Monitoring, alerting, cost governance, patch management and periodic architecture review.

Technologies used

The tools behind the work

Chosen for maintainability and hiring depth rather than novelty. We will justify any choice on request, and we avoid technology that makes you dependent on us.

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • GitHub Actions
  • Datadog
  • Cloudflare

Industries served

Where this work lands most often

Sector context changes what good looks like. These are the industries where we have delivered this service repeatedly.

Why Mova

What working with us on cloud solutions is like

The same commitments apply to every engagement, regardless of size or service.

  • A defined first step

    We scope a fixed-price starting point so you can evaluate us on cloud solutions before committing to a program.

  • Senior people, named

    The team you meet is the team that delivers. You will know exactly who is accountable.

  • You own the output

    Code, accounts, files and documentation are yours from day one, with no lock-in of any kind.

  • Measured, then reported

    We baseline before starting and report against it honestly — including the months that fall short.

Questions

Cloud Solutions: common questions

The questions we are asked most about cloud solutions, answered directly.

AWS for breadth and ecosystem, Azure where you already run Microsoft identity and licensing, Google Cloud for data and ML workloads. The differences matter less than the quality of your architecture, and existing team skills should weigh heavily.

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Next step

Ready to talk about cloud solutions?

Thirty minutes with someone who has delivered this work. We will tell you what it would take, roughly what it would cost, and whether Mova is the right fit.

No pitch deck. A 30-minute conversation about what you are trying to achieve.