Services — Cloud Architecture

We design it. You scale it.

Scalable cloud architectures designed for production from day one. We blueprint your compute, network, storage, and security layers — then help you build it right the first time.

Design Principles

Every blueprint starts here

Four non-negotiable principles that guide every architecture we design. These aren't aspirational — they're structural requirements.

Infinite Scalability

Architectures that grow with you. Horizontal scaling patterns, stateless services, and elastic resource pools — from your first customer to your ten-thousandth without re-architecture.

Horizontal pod autoscaling
Stateless microservices
Database sharding strategies
CDN & edge caching layers

Zero Trust Security

Security is not a layer — it's the foundation. mTLS between all services, identity-aware access, encrypted storage at rest, and network policies that enforce least-privilege by default.

mTLS service-to-service
RBAC & namespace isolation
Secrets management (Vault)
Network policy enforcement

Self-Healing Infrastructure

Systems that recover without human intervention. Health checks, automatic restarts, node failover, and circuit breakers — your infrastructure repairs itself before customers notice.

Liveness & readiness probes
Automatic pod rescheduling
Node auto-replacement
Circuit breaker patterns

Deep Observability

You can't fix what you can't see. Distributed tracing, structured logging, real-time metrics, and alerting — full visibility from load balancer to database query.

OpenTelemetry tracing
Prometheus + Grafana
Structured JSON logging
Alert routing & escalation
Architecture Layers

What we blueprint

Every layer of your cloud ecosystem — from compute and networking to CI/CD and disaster recovery. Nothing left to chance.

Compute Architecture

How your workloads run — VM placement, container orchestration, resource allocation, and autoscaling policies tailored to your traffic patterns.

Network Topology

VLANs, subnets, load balancers, DNS, and ingress routing. We design the network so traffic flows efficiently and securely between all layers.

Storage Strategy

Block storage, object storage, database clustering. We match storage tiers to workload requirements — NVMe for performance, S3-compatible for scale.

Security Perimeter

Firewall rules, WAF configuration, DDoS protection, TLS termination. Multiple security layers that protect without adding latency.

CI/CD Pipeline

GitOps workflows, container registries, automated testing, and deployment pipelines. Ship with confidence — every change validated before production.

Disaster Recovery

Backup strategies, failover regions, RTO/RPO targets. We design for the worst case so you never experience it.

Engagement Model

From discovery to production

A structured process that produces architectures you can trust. We don't just hand you diagrams — we help you build and validate.

Phase 01Discover

Assessment & Discovery

We start by understanding your business. Current infrastructure, traffic patterns, growth projections, compliance requirements, and team capabilities. No assumptions — only data.

Infrastructure audit
Traffic analysis
Growth modeling
Compliance mapping
Phase 02Design

Blueprint & Architecture

We produce a comprehensive architecture blueprint — compute, network, storage, security, observability. Every decision documented with rationale. You review, we iterate until it's right.

Architecture diagrams
Technology selection
Capacity planning
Cost estimation
Phase 03Build

Implementation Support

We don't just hand you a PDF. Our engineers work alongside your team to implement the architecture — Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes manifests, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring dashboards.

Terraform modules
Helm charts
Pipeline configuration
Monitoring setup
Phase 04Validate

Testing & Handoff

Load testing, chaos engineering, security scanning, and failover drills. We validate the architecture under stress before signing off. Full documentation and knowledge transfer to your team.

Load testing
Chaos engineering
Security audit
Knowledge transfer
Technology Stack

Tools we architect with

Open-source, vendor-neutral, production-proven. We select technologies based on your requirements — not our preferences.

Orchestration

Kubernetes
OpenShift
Docker

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform
Ansible
Pulumi

Service Mesh

Istio
Envoy
Cilium

Observability

Prometheus
Grafana
Jaeger

CI/CD

ArgoCD
GitLab CI
Tekton

Security

Vault
Cert-Manager
Falco
Why Cloud Factory

Architecture that ships

We don't produce shelfware. Every architecture we design is built to be implemented — by us or by your team.

Production-Proven Patterns

Every pattern we recommend runs in production today. No theoretical architectures — only battle-tested blueprints refined through real-world deployments.

Platform-Ready

Our architectures are designed to integrate with the Cloud Factory platform from day one. Provisioning, billing, monitoring — all pre-wired into the blueprint.

Team Enablement

We don't create dependency. Every architecture comes with documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer. Your team owns and operates it independently.

Cost-Optimized

Right-sized from the start. We design for your actual workload, not worst-case fantasy. Auto-scaling handles peaks; you don't pay for idle capacity.

By the Numbers

Engagement benchmarks

Typical timelines and outcomes from our architecture engagements.

3-4w

Blueprint delivery

Discovery to final architecture

4-8w

Implementation support

Build-out with your team

99.9%

Availability target

Built into every design

0

Vendor lock-in

Open-source, portable stack

Let's Architect

Ready to design your cloud?

Whether you're starting from scratch or refactoring an existing environment — we'll design the architecture that fits your business and scales with your ambition.

FAQ

Common Questions

No. While our platform runs on OpenStack and OpenShift, our architecture service covers any cloud environment — AWS, GCP, Azure, bare metal, or hybrid. We design the architecture that fits your business, regardless of the underlying provider.

A standard architecture blueprint takes 3-4 weeks: 1 week discovery, 1-2 weeks design, and 1 week review and iteration. Implementation support is scoped separately based on complexity — typically 4-8 weeks for full build-out.

A complete architecture package: infrastructure diagrams, network topology, security model, capacity plan, cost estimate, technology selection rationale, and implementation roadmap. If you engage us for build-out, you also get all Infrastructure as Code, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipeline configurations.

Yes. We regularly audit and refactor existing cloud architectures. We start with a thorough assessment, identify bottlenecks and risks, then produce a migration plan that minimizes downtime. We can execute the migration or hand it off to your team.

If you plan to sell cloud services, we design the architecture to integrate with our platform — automated provisioning, product catalog, billing, and customer portal. The architecture and the business layer are designed together, not bolted on after the fact.