Cloud & DevOps Solutions Company

Cloud cost savings depend on how efficiently your environment is already managed. Rightsizing compute and databases typically reduces costs by 15-35%, Reserved Instances and Savings Plans save 30-72% on stable workloads, and Spot Instances can reduce eligible workload costs by 60-90%. Removing idle resources and optimising data transfer often delivers additional savings. Organisations without established FinOps practices commonly achieve 30-50% overall cloud cost reduction, with the biggest gains coming from rightsizing, eliminating waste, and implementing ongoing cloud cost governance.

Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that defines cloud resources such as EC2, VPCs, RDS, S3, IAM, and load balancers using HCL instead of manual console configuration. It enables reproducible environments across development, staging, and production while storing infrastructure changes in Git for version control, approvals, and auditing. Terraform also simplifies rollback, disaster recovery, and team collaboration through remote state management. Compared to manual "ClickOps," it provides a consistent, scalable, and maintainable approach to managing cloud infrastructure.

RPO (Recovery Point Objective) defines the maximum amount of data a business can afford to lose, while RTO (Recovery Time Objective) defines the maximum acceptable downtime after a disaster. Lower RPOs require more frequent backups or real-time replication, and lower RTOs require faster recovery architectures such as warm standby or active-active deployments. Both are business-driven decisions that directly influence disaster recovery design, cost, and complexity. At Evolution Infosystem, every DR strategy begins with a business impact analysis to define appropriate RPO and RTO targets before designing the technical solution.

FinOps is the organisational practice of bringing financial accountability to cloud spending, while cloud cost optimisation is the technical work of reducing cloud costs. FinOps combines three capabilities: Inform, through tagging, dashboards, and budget visibility; Optimise, using rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Spot workloads, and eliminating idle resources; and Operate, with governance, regular reviews, and cost accountability. Without FinOps, optimisation delivers only temporary savings. A mature FinOps practice ensures cloud spending remains efficient as infrastructure and business needs evolve.

Cloud migration timelines depend on application complexity, migration strategy, data volume, and the quality of existing documentation. A simple Rehost migration for a single application typically takes 3-6 weeks, while migrating 5-10 applications usually requires 2-4 months. Replatform projects generally take 4-8 weeks, whereas Refactor migrations involving cloud-native redesign can take 3-6 months. Large data migrations may extend timelines, although services like AWS Database Migration Service minimise downtime through continuous replication. In practice, undocumented application dependencies are the most common cause of migration delays.

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, load balancing, and recovery of containerised applications. Managed services like Amazon EKS, Azure AKS, and Google GKE simplify control plane management while supporting advanced deployment strategies such as rolling, blue-green, and canary releases. Kubernetes is ideal for organisations running multiple containerised applications at scale with mature DevOps practices. For simpler workloads, smaller teams, or low-traffic applications, services like ECS, Cloud Run, App Runner, Azure Container Apps, or serverless platforms often provide a more cost-effective and less complex solution.

Cloud security should be assessed across identity, network, data, and monitoring layers. This includes least-privilege IAM roles, MFA, secure private networking, restrictive security groups, WAF protection, encryption at rest and in transit, secure secrets management, and continuous threat detection with services such as GuardDuty, Defender for Cloud, CloudTrail, or Security Command Center. The most reliable assessment comes from a cloud security audit or provider security tools like AWS Security Hub, Azure Secure Score, or GCP Security Command Center. Evolution Infosystem's cloud security audit identifies risks, prioritises findings, and delivers a practical remediation plan.

Cloud architecture and infrastructure design (Terraform IaC, multi-AZ, Kubernetes), cloud consulting and migration (6 Rs strategy, AWS DMS, Azure Migrate), CI/CD pipeline setup (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD), cost analysis and cloud optimisation (FinOps, rightsizing, RI/SP), and disaster recovery and backup solutions (RPO/RTO design, cross-region replication, DR testing).

Yes. All cloud infrastructure Evolution Infosystem provisions is defined in Terraform HCL, tracked in Git, reviewed via pull request, and applied via CI/CD pipeline - no manual console provisioning.

Yes. Evolution Infosystem is a multi-cloud DevOps company supporting AWS (primary), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, with specific expertise in AWS EKS/ECS, Azure AKS, and GKE.

Yes. Through FinOps: cloud spend audit and waste identification, EC2/RDS rightsizing, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan purchase modelling, Spot Instance migration for appropriate workloads, and ongoing cost governance. Typical reduction: 30-50% for environments without prior optimisation.

Yes. DR engagements include RPO/RTO definition, cross-region backup architecture, automated failover design, DR runbook development, and quarterly DR test exercises validating actual RTO achievement.

Yes. Cloud security hardening covering IAM least-privilege review, GuardDuty/Defender for Cloud enablement, WAF implementation, encryption at rest and in transit, Secrets Manager migration, and CloudTrail audit logging to immutable cross-account storage.