--- title: Cloud Services url: https://www.velsof.com/cloud-services/ date: 2026-02-09 type: page --- ## Trusted by Industry Leaders  ## What Our Clients Say The Flutter app Velocity built for our retail chain has been a game changer. Seamless integration with our existing systems, beautiful UI, and it just works. App store ratings went to 4.8 stars within the first month. The team was responsive and collaborative throughout the entire process. ★★★★★P Priya Sharma Head of Digital, FreshMart Grocery Velocity has been our technology partner for over 3 years now. From our initial Magento migration to ongoing optimization and new feature development, they consistently deliver quality work on time. Their team feels like an extension of our own. ★★★★★D David Park CTO, UrbanStyle Fashion We needed a WooCommerce store that could handle our complex product configurations and Velocity nailed it. The custom product builder they created is a thing of beauty. Our customers love it, and support tickets related to ordering dropped by 75%. ★★★★★E Emily Rodriguez Founder, CustomPrint Co. The Odoo ERP implementation by Velocity streamlined our entire operation. We went from managing 5 disconnected systems to one unified platform. The efficiency gains have been remarkable — our order processing time dropped by 60% and errors are virtually eliminated. ★★★★★M Michael Torres COO, NexaDistribution After working with three different agencies, we finally found Velocity. They rebuilt our Shopify Plus store with custom integrations that actually work. The attention to detail on checkout optimization alone increased our average order value by 28%. Highly recommend for any serious eCommerce brand. ★★★★★J James Chen CEO, ActiveGear Sports Velocity completely transformed our eCommerce presence. Our Magento store went from painfully slow to lightning fast, and conversions jumped 42% in the first quarter after launch. Their team understood our business needs from day one and delivered beyond expectations. ★★★★★S Sarah Mitchell VP of Digital, LuxeHome Furnishings ## What We Do Cloud services is broad. Here's what we actually help with. ### Cloud Migration Moving from on-premise or legacy hosting to AWS, GCP, or Azure. We plan the migration path, handle data transfer, set up networking, configure security groups, and cut over with minimal downtime. We've migrated databases with 500GB+ of data with under 15 minutes of downtime. ### Infrastructure Design Architecture that scales with your traffic and doesn't burn money when it's quiet. Auto-scaling groups, load balancers, containerized deployments, managed databases, and proper networking — all defined as Infrastructure as Code so nothing is configured by hand. ### Security & Compliance VPC design, IAM policies, encryption at rest and in transit, WAF configuration, security group auditing, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR). We set up the guardrails so your developers can deploy without accidentally exposing a database to the internet. ### DevOps & CI/CD GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible. We build pipelines that test, build, and deploy your code automatically — with proper staging environments, rollback capabilities, and deployment approvals for production. ### Monitoring & Observability Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, PagerDuty. We set up comprehensive monitoring so you know about issues before your users do. Custom dashboards, smart alerting (that doesn't cry wolf), log aggregation, and distributed tracing. ### Cost Optimization Most companies overspend on cloud by 30-50%. We audit your infrastructure, right-size instances, implement Reserved Instances / Savings Plans, clean up unused resources, and set up cost allocation tags. Average savings: 45% on monthly cloud bills. ## Where We Go Deep Managing 200+ environments teaches you a few things. ### AWS Architecture & Management We're deep in the AWS ecosystem: EC2, ECS, EKS, Lambda, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, SQS, SNS, and more. We design architectures that use the right service for each workload — not everything needs Kubernetes, and not everything should be a Lambda function. Our AWS bills typically run 30-50% less than what clients were paying before we got involved, with better performance. EC2 ECS Lambda RDS S3 CloudFront Terraform ### Kubernetes & Container Orchestration We run production Kubernetes clusters for companies that need them — and we'll honestly tell you if you don't. For teams that do: we handle cluster setup (EKS, GKE, or self-managed), Helm chart development, autoscaling policies, secret management, network policies, and GitOps deployment workflows with ArgoCD. We also containerize legacy applications for teams migrating from VM-based deployments. Kubernetes Docker Helm ArgoCD Istio EKS/GKE ### Cloud Security & Compliance We implement security as code: automated compliance checks, IAM least-privilege policies, network segmentation, encryption everywhere, audit logging, and incident response playbooks. We've helped companies achieve SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA compliance, and PCI-DSS certification on cloud infrastructure. Our security monitoring catches misconfigurations within minutes, not months. IAM VPC WAF GuardDuty Security Hub CIS Benchmarks ## Why Teams Pick Velocity ### Security-First Approach ### Infrastructure as Code ### 24/7 Monitoring Included ### Cost Optimization Built In ### Multi-Cloud Experience ### 15-Min Response SLA ## How We Think About Cloud Infrastructure Cloud is simple in theory, expensive in practice. Here's how we keep it from becoming a money pit. ### Right-size everything, always The default approach to cloud is over-provisioning: "Let's get a bigger instance just in case." That's how you end up spending $20K/month when $8K would do. We analyze actual resource utilization, implement auto-scaling for variable workloads, and use spot/preemptible instances for non-critical jobs. The 45% average savings we deliver isn't from magic — it's from paying attention to what your workloads actually need. ### Kubernetes isn't always the answer We love Kubernetes. We also know it's overkill for many workloads. If you have 3 services and a small team, managed container services (ECS, Cloud Run) or even a well-configured VM gives you 90% of the benefits at 20% of the complexity. We recommend K8s when you have 10+ services, need sophisticated deployment strategies, or have a team that can maintain it. Anything less, and the operational overhead eats the benefits. > The best infrastructure is the one your team can understand, maintain, and debug at 3am. Complexity is a cost, not a feature. ### What we've learned the hard way - **Infrastructure as Code is non-negotiable** — If you configured it by clicking in a console, it will drift, break, and be impossible to reproduce. Everything goes through Terraform or Pulumi. No exceptions - **Multi-region isn't always worth it** — For most applications, a single region with multi-AZ deployment gives you 99.99% uptime at a fraction of the complexity. We do multi-region when latency requirements or compliance demand it, not for bragging rights - **Monitoring without alerting is useless, alerting without runbooks is noise** — Every alert we set up has a corresponding runbook that explains what's wrong and how to fix it. Alert fatigue is real and it kills response times - **Disaster recovery needs testing** — A backup that's never been restored isn't a backup. We run DR drills quarterly and document recovery time objectives for every critical system - **Cloud bills are a trailing indicator** — By the time you see the bill, the money is spent. We set up real-time cost monitoring with daily alerts so overspend gets caught in days, not months We manage infrastructure for companies ranging from startups spending $500/month to enterprises spending $200K+/month. The principles are the same at any scale: automate everything, monitor everything, secure everything, and don't pay for what you don't use. ### SaaS Platform: Zero Downtime Migration from Heroku to AWS A SaaS company with 2,000+ customers was hitting Heroku's limits: high costs ($18K/month), limited control over infrastructure, and performance issues during peak hours. We designed an AWS architecture (ECS Fargate, Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache, CloudFront) and migrated everything with zero downtime using a blue-green deployment strategy. Monthly infrastructure costs dropped to $6,200 (65% reduction), p95 API response times improved from 800ms to 180ms, and the team gained the flexibility to scale individual services independently.  ### FinTech: SOC 2 Compliant Infrastructure from Scratch A FinTech startup needed production infrastructure that would pass SOC 2 Type II audit from day one. We built the entire stack on AWS with Terraform: encrypted RDS with automated backups, private VPC with no public subnets for application servers, WAF with custom rules, CloudTrail audit logging to a locked S3 bucket, SSM Session Manager (no SSH), and automated compliance scanning with AWS Config rules. They passed their SOC 2 audit on the first attempt. The infrastructure serves 100K+ daily transactions with 99.99% uptime over 18 months.  ### Media Company: Auto-Scaling for 10x Traffic Spikes A news/media company experienced massive traffic spikes during breaking events — 10x normal traffic within minutes. Their previous hosting would crash every time. We built an auto-scaling architecture on AWS: CloudFront CDN for static assets, Application Load Balancer with ECS auto-scaling (min 2, max 40 containers), Aurora Serverless for database scaling, and Redis for session/cache management. The site now handles 10x traffic spikes without degradation. During their biggest event (2M concurrent users), the infrastructure scaled automatically and costs only increased by $200 for that day.  ## Our Latest Case Studies [ ### Tamil Nadu Integrated Housing Information System (TNIHIS) Dashboard The Challenge The Government of Tamil Nadu required a centralized, interactive dashboard to consolidate and visualize housing-related data across the state. The existing data management approach lacked a unified platform...](https://www.velsof.com/case-studies/tamil-nadu-integrated-housing-information-system-tnihis-dashboard/)[ ### UNICEF Juvenile Justice Monitoring System](https://www.velsof.com/case-studies/unicef-juvenile-justice-monitoring-system/)[ ### Web-Based MIS with Geo-tagging and Mobile Application for Livelihood Projects](https://www.velsof.com/case-studies/web-based-mis-with-geo-tagging-and-mobile-application-for-livelihood-projects/)[ ### HMIS Dashboard for Nutrition Performance Monitoring](https://www.velsof.com/case-studies/hmis-dashboard-for-nutrition-performance-monitoring/)[### UNICEF Lucknow – Out-of-School Children (OOSC) Monitoring Application for Uttar Pradesh The Challenge Uttar Pradesh has the largest share of out-of-school children in India. According to a sample survey by EdCIL, an estimated 1.6 million children (3.9% of all children aged...](https://www.velsof.com/case-studies/unicef-lucknow-out-of-school-children-oosc-monitoring-application-for-uttar-pradesh/) ## Common Questions It depends on your situation. AWS: broadest service catalog, best for complex enterprise workloads. GCP: strongest for data/ML workloads and Kubernetes. Azure: best if you're a Microsoft shop (Active Directory, .NET). DigitalOcean: simplest and cheapest for straightforward web applications. We'll recommend based on your technical requirements, team skills, compliance needs, and budget — not our preferences.On average, 45%. We've seen savings as high as 70% for environments that were heavily over-provisioned. The quick wins are: right-sizing instances (most are 2-4x larger than needed), purchasing Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for stable workloads, cleaning up unused resources (old snapshots, unattached volumes, idle load balancers), and optimizing data transfer costs. We do a free initial assessment to estimate your savings potential.Yes, for managed infrastructure clients. Our monitoring detects issues and auto-remediates common problems (disk space, OOM kills, certificate renewals). For issues that need human intervention, our on-call team responds within 15 minutes for P1 (service down) and 1 hour for P2 (degraded performance). We use PagerDuty for escalation and maintain runbooks for every alert.Yes. We start with an audit: document what you have, identify risks, assess performance, and estimate costs. Then we propose a transition plan — typically 4-8 weeks to onboard, import infrastructure into Terraform, set up monitoring, and establish operational procedures. We don't require you to migrate or rebuild anything to work with us.Maybe. If you have fewer than 10 services and a small team, managed container services (ECS, Cloud Run) are simpler and cheaper. If you have 10+ microservices, need sophisticated deployment strategies (canary, blue-green), or want to avoid vendor lock-in, Kubernetes makes sense. We'll assess your situation honestly — we'd rather set up a simpler architecture that your team can manage than a complex one that requires ongoing hand-holding.Every managed environment gets: automated daily backups with retention policies, cross-region backup replication for critical data, documented RTO/RPO targets, and quarterly DR testing. For critical systems, we set up multi-AZ deployments with automated failover. We document recovery procedures as runbooks so your team (or ours) can execute them under pressure. ## Let's Look at Your Infrastructure Free 30-minute assessment. 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