Our difference
We are an agile team of experienced engineers, focused on telling you what we can and cannot help with — and on setting a reasonable expectation of what the outcomes will be.
How pricing works
Our services come with outcomes-based pricing, based on milestones agreed upon during the initial discovery phase.
Book a free 30-minute call to discuss your goals and how we can help you achieve them.
Book a free consultationWe are an agile team of 2, and we cannot offer the services below at a high quality — so we don't offer them at all. We would rather be clear about that up front than take the work and disappoint you.
Instead we focus on engagements with defined goals and objectives that have a distinct start and end.
What we offer
A Cloud Above specializes in helping small and medium businesses and nonprofits with the following types of work.
Find ways to improve cost while still meeting your business objectives. Do you really need that 8xl instance running constantly to fire a cron job every hour? Is half the traffic through your load balancer just encryption handshakes? And does anybody know what in the world those EBS snapshots are for?
We analyze your application bottlenecks and focus on the ones worth addressing, weighing the time to diagnose and improve against your business goals. We will not waste your time and money shaving milliseconds off a workflow measured in minutes — but we will hunt down the small optimizations, and architect systemic changes where they are warranted.
Getting ready to launch an application, planning a promotion, or hosting a big event? Do daily surges keep causing downtime? These are make-or-break moments for your users and your business. Let us handle the planning, or guide you through it, balancing availability against cost — whether you are planning for a 3x surge or a 300x one.
An old colo contract for a single server, or a box under a desk that just cannot stay running, that needs moving into the cloud? Decided that multi-cloud setup really is not worth the hassle? Still on RHEL 7 and needing something newer? These types of migrations, and more.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. Tell us where you are headed - migration, cost, architecture or resilience - and we will come back with a straight answer.
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