Optimizing your cloud: How to transform your infrastructure from a cost factor to a growth engine
Many companies have already taken the first major step: the migration to the cloud is complete. Servers have been moved, data migrated, and the old data centers shut down. But after the initial euphoria, disillusionment often sets in. Monthly bills are higher than expected, performance gains fail to materialize, and the IT department struggles with new complexity instead of newfound freedom.
The problem is usually not the cloud itself, but how it is used. Those who simply transfer old concepts directly to new technologies ("lift and shift") inherit old problems and pay premium prices for them.
Our cloud optimization service addresses this very issue. We help you ignite the second phase of your cloud strategy: the transition from simply existing in the cloud to achieving excellence in the cloud. To achieve this, we focus on three crucial levers: cost, technology, and security.
1. Permanently reduce costs: The FinOps principle
The cloud promises flexibility – you only pay for what you use. In reality, however, many companies pay for what they provide, not for what they actually need. Without strict management, cloud costs spiral out of control.
Our analysis: We often observe "over-provisioning": Servers are made far too large out of caution. In addition, there are "zombie resources"—forgotten test environments or unremoved storage blocks that incur costs 24/7 without adding any value.
Your advantage through our optimization: We implement a FinOps (Financial Operations) approach that combines technical metrics with financial goals:
Create transparency: We break down your billing. Precise tagging lets you know exactly which team or project is causing which costs.
Rightsizing: We analyze the actual utilization of your systems and scale the instances down to the exact size required.
Intelligent purchasing: We replace expensive on-demand tariffs with strategic savings plans (Savings Plans & Reserved Instances) for base loads and use inexpensive spot instances for temporary tasks.
The result: You can often reduce your monthly expenses by 20 to 30% without sacrificing a single byte of performance.
2. Increase performance & agility: The path to cloud-native
Many migrated applications run in the cloud like a sports car in first gear. While they reside on a modern platform, their architecture remains monolithic and outdated. Changes take days, and scaling is a manual effort.
Our analysis: If your cloud servers are maintained like classic virtual machines, you are missing out on the real advantages of the cloud: elasticity and speed.
Your advantage through our optimization: We modernize your architecture towards cloud-native:
Containerization: We package your applications into containers (e.g., Docker). This makes them lightweight, portable, and extremely efficient.
Orchestration & Autoscaling: Using Kubernetes, we ensure that your infrastructure "breathes." Systems automatically ramp up during periods of high visitor traffic and shut down at night.
DevOps automation: We set up CI/CD pipelines. Software updates are no longer installed manually, but are tested and rolled out fully automatically.
The result: Your IT infrastructure transforms from a bottleneck into an accelerator. You can release new features in minutes instead of weeks, and your systems remain stable even under load.
3. Guarantee security & compliance: Protection without obstacles
In traditional IT, the firewall was the castle wall. In the cloud, this wall no longer exists – access is possible from anywhere. This often leads to uncertainty: Who is allowed to do what? Where is my data located? Is this GDPR compliant?
Our analysis: The biggest security vulnerability in the cloud is misconfiguration. A single wrong click can make a database publicly accessible. This often leads to "shadow IT," where departments bypass security and book services.
Your advantage through our optimization: We establish a security concept based on the principle of "Security by Design":
Identity & Access Management (IAM): We implement the principle of least privilege. Every user and every service receives only the permissions necessary for the task at hand.
Automated guardrails: We program security rules directly into the platform. The system proactively prevents insecure configurations (e.g., unencrypted hard drives) from being created in the first place.
Compliance monitoring: We ensure complete logging and encryption so you can face audits with peace of mind.
The result: You regain control. Your data is protected, and your developers can move freely within a secure environment without creating risks.