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Practice 02 — Cloud & platform

A cloud that ships
faster than it costs.

Most cloud programmes get the technology mostly right and the operating model badly wrong. We design the platform, the team that owns it, the funding model that pays for it, and the guardrails that keep developers fast and finance calm.

Outcomes

What changes for you.

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    A paved-road platform that 80% of teams use willingly — because it's the easiest path.

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    Lead time from commit to production measured in minutes, not weeks.

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    Cloud unit economics that finance can model and engineering can defend.

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    An SRE practice with error budgets, on-call humanity and meaningful reliability targets.

Capabilities

The work, spelled out.

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Platform engineering

Internal developer platforms, golden paths, service catalogues — the Spotify-Backstage idea, done in your context.

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DevOps operating model

Team topologies, cognitive load mapping, the funding and metrics that make 'you build it, you run it' real.

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Cloud landing zones

AWS, Azure or GCP foundations: networking, identity, security guardrails, multi-account/subscription strategy.

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SRE & reliability

SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems, on-call rotation design and the platform tooling underneath.

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FinOps

Showback and chargeback, commitment management, anomaly detection, and the conversations that change engineering behaviour.

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Migration & modernisation

Lift-and-shift, replatform or refactor — sequenced by business value, not infrastructure tidiness.

Signals from prior engagements

11 min

Median commit-to-production lead time after platform adoption.

−34%

Cloud spend reduction in year one through FinOps and right-sizing.

99.95%

SLO attainment across tier-1 services with sustainable on-call.