⚡ Cloud · Infrastructure · 2026
Cloud that bends to your workload—not the other way around.
Tridence designs, migrates, and runs cloud platforms that survive Black Friday traffic, audit week, and the 3 a.m. page. AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid, on-prem—the architecture follows the workload, not the brochure.
Tailored · To your scope · No flat-rate menus
The honest part
Cloud is not a product. It is an operating model.
Most "cloud problems" are actually billing problems, ownership problems, or we-lifted-and-shifted-and-walked-away problems. We treat the cloud the way we treat any production system: someone owns it, it is observed, it is documented, and it gets better every quarter.
Lift · Shift · Pray
VMs from the colo are now EC2s in a default VPC. The bill tripled. Nobody knows what runs where. The "cloud team" is one person who left in March.
This is the most expensive way to be in the cloud.
Design · Run · Improve
Terraform in git. Environments are reproducible. Budgets, alerts, and SLOs are wired in from day one. A runbook exists for every alert that pages a human.
This is the cloud you were sold. We build it.
What we run
Six cloud disciplines. One on-call rotation.
Whether you are starting from a colo, a single AWS account, or a half-finished GCP migration, the work fits one of these tracks.
Cloud architecture & landing zones
Multi-account AWS Organizations, Azure management groups, or GCP folders—identity, networking, logging, and guardrails before the first workload lands.
Migration & modernization
Rehost, replatform, or rearchitect—chosen per workload, not per slide deck. Wave plans, cutover runbooks, rollback paths, and a real go-live war room.
DevOps, CI/CD & IaC
Terraform or Pulumi, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI, deploys that are reviewed, signed, and reversible. No more “the deploy script is on Greg’s laptop.”
Kubernetes & containers
EKS, AKS, GKE—right-sized, right-scoped. Helm charts, service meshes when warranted, autoscaling that actually scales, and clusters small enough to upgrade.
FinOps & cost engineering
Tagging that means something, savings plans where they pay back, idle-resource cleanup, and a monthly bill story that finance can read without a translator.
SRE & managed operations
SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, on-call rotations, and post-incident reviews. We can run it for you, with you, or hand you the keys when you are ready.
How engagements start
Three entry points. One standard.
No SKUs, no flat-rate menus. Pick the front door that matches where you are; we size the work after a real conversation.
Cloud & FinOps Audit
- Account, network, and IAM review
- Cost & rightsizing teardown
- Reliability & observability gaps
- Prioritized 90-day remediation plan
Migration & Platform Build
- Landing zone & IaC foundation
- Workload migration in waves
- CI/CD, observability, runbooks
- Knowledge transfer baked in
Managed Cloud & SRE
- Patching, upgrades, on-call
- SLO tracking & cost reviews
- Quarterly architecture reviews
- Runbook & doc upkeep
How the work moves
Discover. Design. Build. Operate.
Every engagement runs on the same loop. The names are boring on purpose.
What is actually here
Inventory, dependencies, costs, regulations, and the political map. We name the constraints out loud before we draw a single diagram.
Architecture & plan
Landing zone, network, identity, data, and a wave plan you can defend to a CFO. Decisions are written down and dated.
Migrate & instrument
IaC, CI/CD, observability, and the workload itself—shipped in waves, with rollback paths and dress rehearsals before every cutover.
Run & improve
SLOs, on-call, monthly cost & reliability reviews, and a backlog of small improvements that compound. Day 90 should be calmer than day 30.
The stack
Modern, boring, and battle-tested.
We pick tools we are willing to be paged for at 3 a.m. The list is short on purpose.
FAQ
Cloud questions, answered honestly.
Will moving to cloud cut our bill?
Sometimes. More often, your year-one bill is similar and your year-two bill is meaningfully lower—because you finally rightsized, killed dead workloads, and put guardrails in place. We will tell you up front if a workload is cheaper to leave where it is.
AWS, Azure, or GCP?
Whichever one fits your data, your team, and your existing contracts. We have shipped on all three. We will not pick a cloud because it is in our pitch deck.
Do you do multi-cloud?
Only when there is a reason—regulatory, M&A, vendor risk, or a specific service that does not exist elsewhere. Multi-cloud as a default is usually multi-cost and multi-pager.
How do you handle compliance?
HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI—we have built and operated under all three. Compliance is not a bolt-on; it is wired into the landing zone, the IaC, and the audit trail from day one.
Can you co-pilot with our internal team?
That is most of what we do. We embed, transfer knowledge, write the runbooks, and leave behind something your team can run. We are happy to be temporary on purpose.
What does it cost?
Tailored to scope. There is no flat-rate menu and no hourly box you can buy us in. We will size the work after a 15-minute discovery and a feasibility pass, never before.
Got a migration on the calendar, a bill that hurts, or a 3 a.m. pager problem?
Bring the architecture diagram and the last three invoices. Fifteen minutes, real engineers, no slide deck.
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