Gladly is an enterprise SaaS company that has reinvented call center software. We migrated them from ECS/Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes so they could achieve greater economies of scale.

They are backed by Greylock Partners and have raised in excess of $113M.

Ram Akuka, Director of Platform

PeerStreet is a peer-to-peer market place for institutional investors to buy/sell commercial real estate. We migrated them from Heroku to AWS so they could reduce costs, increase security, and agility. They are backed by Andreessen Horowitz and have raised over $110M.

Alex Perelman, CTO

startup.....com is a financial service company that allows users to get paid on demand, budget instantly, and save automatically. We migrated them from Heroku to AWS/Kubernetes for increased security and faster deployments. Empower their data analytics team with the tools they needed. They are backed by so and so and have raised over $52M.

Person, CTO

We eliminate the guesswork of building and owning your cloud infrastructure.

Your business is growing. If you don’t own the infrastructure behind it, you won’t be able to handle it. You need to be able to respond to all the unknowns and curveballs thrown your way.  Remember, when a unicorn falls, the rider goes down with it...

To be able to get to the next level that your business is headed to, you need to step up your game.

We’ve helped companies just like yours get to where they want to be with their cloud infrastructure and platform in record time because this is what we do. We have a very specific mission with a laser focus, that’s why we have such a high success rate. It's what we call SweetOps™.

You get a predictable outcome that is delivered on time and within budget.

There are no long term commitments. No license fees. No strings attached.

Plus, we stick around for as long as you need our help. 

Seems like pretty good deal, right?

Here is the core concept: If you can understand this, everything will make sense. 

1. You need to own your infrastructure because it’s your competitive advantage.
   In order for you to build a successful startup or SaaS business and keep up with how fast you’re moving, you need to own your infrastructure and build it to serve you. 
   
   
2. Most teams lack sufficient in-house experience to build it and need outside help.
   You need to be subject matter experts in your industry and vertical, not on cloud automation. Focus on the things you do best.
   
   
3. We’re the only company that gives startups what they need.
   No other company is helping companies implement this stuff from beginning to end, so you can own it except us.

We have a proven track record of delivering exactly what our customers expect. Afterward partnering with us, our customers are better off and better educated on what it takes to operate modern DevOps machinery that they own.

DevOps, as we all know, is a trendy buzz word, so what does it actually mean? It’s been so overloaded and misused it can almost mean anything these days, along with words like transformative, cloud, AI/ML, and blockchain.

We get that. But here’s what it means to us.

In the preceding decades, infrastructure was strictly physical hardware. It required humans to physically rack and stack machines in data centers, configure network switches, etc. These days, on the other hand, all that has been virtualized—its software-defined. Under the hood, it’s all the same stuff; it’s just the common element—the human operator—your team—now deals with software rather than hardware for configuration. 

This is what makes DevOps possible. The walls have been broken down so that developers can now write “Infrastructure as Code.” Since it’s all software, it can be automated and iterated on. For example, we can do automated testing, continuous delivery, and code reviews. So DevOps is really the fusion of these disciplines. It’s taking the best of the Software Development mindset and applying it to Operations. 

But you may be surprised that the benefits to your business go even further.

Business

Technical

Cultural

Your infrastructure and its capabilities are what limits your ability to grow your company based on what you can or cannot do and how fast or long it will take.

Now, unlike your product, your customers probably don’t care what your infrastructure looks like as long as their data is safe and online. However, your developers do. It’s what makes their job easier when done right. With the right infrastructure, your developers can take advantage of all the APIs and services available by cloud providers like Amazon. 

Infrastructure that is well designed ensures you capture the entirety of what makes your business successful down to the nuts and bolts. 

Automation is what allows you to create and replicate your systems at a low cost and avoid the expense of manual effort and human error. Automation, therefore, is a force multiplier. It’s how you continue to scale your success.

The faster your developers can move with the least impedance, the more agile your business, and the faster you can run circles around your competition. They’ll be scratching their heads, trying to figure out how you pulled it off.

Infrastructure automation, therefore, is not an afterthought. It’s because of this, you have a product that your customers can come to use reliably. It’s because of it you have the confidence to scale your business and meet your customers' requirements for security and compliance.

DevOps is the foundation of everything your business will do or be capable of doing.

Can you name one billion-dollar company that runs its entire product on a managed platform like Heroku? You probably can't. That's because when you enter the big leagues, you cannot afford to take that risk. 

When you can rapidly respond to yet unknown requirements your business faces, that is a competitive advantage that is difficult to replicate. Anything short of this will be stifling for your startup. It’s just a matter of time.

Once you own it, your developers will love you for it, and your customers will appreciate the outcome!

We’ve been around the block a few times and seen what works and what doesn’t. 

Let's make sure we can help you.

You're a tech-savvy startup founder who wants to achieve BIG things fast. You can't move fast enough because of your infrastructure and general lack of automation.

You're a CTOs or VP Engineering who has been pushing off owning your platform infrastructure and now need to act fast. This is a big problem for you right now.

If this sounds like your situation, then you can’t fix any of this because of your infrastructure. You are now the blocker, and it's probably the last thing you want. If you're getting pressured on delivering a solution,  then you know that you need to act, but fast thinking & acting is what got you here. 

People within your company might be telling you it’s easy, but your experience tells you otherwise. As someone with an engineering background, you have a hard time believing claims that you can have your infrastructure built in about day. And we agree.  

You would love to get a handle on your platform situation and come up with a gameplan, but you can’t spend forever researching it. You have enough on your plate already. Maybe your team has been floating ideas around about moving to kubernetes and introducing CI/CD, but the amount of information and conflicting opinions is frankly overwhelming. On top of that, you tried to do this yourself in-house, but that has also gone nowhere because everyone is slammed, and you might not even have the right skill sets in-house. 

So maybe you’re trying to hire the team right now which you can entrust to architect your new platform, but discovered it’s so freggin competitive out there (not to mention expensive!) 

You know you need to take the next step. That’s why you’re here.

If any of this sounds like you, the first thing you should know is that you are not alone. We’ve helped companies just like yours get to where you want to be with your infrastructure in record time because this is what we do.

So scroll down to find out how, by partnering with Cloud Posse, you will achieve Sweet Ops™.

As a DevOps accelerator who partners with you to build awesome infrastructure that you own, we think it’s important to be upfront about what that entails and what Cloud Posse is not. 

• We don’t do one-off bespoke solutions. We implement our proven solution every time.  
• We don’t do staff augmentation. That's a totally different kind of company.
• We’re not your typical “DevOps as a Service” company. They can't do what we do as fast as we do it.

And we certainly won’t build your mobile site or do your SEO. 😁

We have a very specific mission, so we fully recognize what we do is not for every company. That’s why we have such a high success rate.

If any of your answers to these questions are yes, then maybe we are not a good fit for your company at this time.

Our goal is not to sell you on a solution that you don’t need or one that will frankly be overkill for you. We work best with companies that have some experience running their apps in containers, using AWS in some capacity, companies that flexible in adopting the open-source tools we deliver as part of our solution.

We have a proven and repeatable strategy for companies that fit our profile. That’s why we kick ass at what we do.

In order to be in full control of your company's destiny, you need to drive it.
You need to own your infrastructure, and it needs to be done the right way from the start.
That's what we do. This is what you get for a fraction of the cost in half the time.

Before you call a meeting and tell everyone you’ve decided to go build your own infrastructure, let's make sure you know what this is going to take to get there and ask the right questions. If things like the “AWS Well-Architected Framework,” or the “BeyondCorp Security Model” and the “CIS Foundations Benchmarks” are unfamiliar, then there may be a very big gap between where you are today and where you want to be.

The reason why we’re telling you this is we’ve seen a lot of companies who’ve tried and failed to reach their goal. If you haven’t done this before, it could really take a long time before you get it right.

We want to give you more insights into what it actually takes to own your infrastructure by breaking it down to the 5 phases that will help get you there. 

Here is what we follow and is based on our experience of what works.

When you introduce DevOps practices into your organization, it will enable your business to move faster with greater confidence. This what’s going allow you to build a company that keeps up with how fast you’re moving. When you own your infrastructure, it serves you.

Don't underestimate the effort of taking a "proof of concept" cloud platform and operationalizing it all the way to production. There’s a lot that can go wrong when you haven’t done it before. There’s a lot that needs to happen in order to get it right. 

So how confident do you feel right now about achieving your goal?

You'll have no idea if or when it'll get done or how much it will ultimately cost you. It's difficult to anticipate all the things that can go wrong, which is why many engineering projects fail. Mistakes will increase your implementation cost, delay timelines, and cause projects to suffer. So, make sure to consider the following...

Working with us gives you peace of mind. We're experts at what we do. We love our job, and we never get bored doing it. Our experience ensures you get what you expect and when you need it. You only pay for what we deliver. We don't require any long-term commitments or massive retainers. 

We believe in absolute transparency. It's embedded into our process from day one.  

The reason why we're so good at what we do is we repeat our process every time.

We provide absolutely everything a technology-driven Startup needs for a solid and secure foundation delivered in just a few months, every time and on time.

Our goal is that when you work with us, it will be a breath of fresh air.  You might have had bad experiences with outsourcing. Remember, we are not that.  We have a sweet process.  You'll always have a direct line of communication with our team via Slack.

No license fees. No bait & switch. No strings attached.

Every customer we’ve worked with is blown away by our process and professionalism.

We’ll make sure you get the same treatment. That’s why you always have a direct line to our team and regular weekly status updates. 

Now because this offer is just too good, we need to call it out again.

Remember, we provide FREE weekly office hours. 

This free one-on-one support is held every week for 1 hour via a zoom conference. We do this because we want to make sure you get the maximum value out of your investment. This is how we ensure it.

Now I can’t promise we’ll keep doing this forever without charging. But if you partner with us soon, we’ll make sure you get it.

When you decide to build your own infrastructure in-house, consider the risks because a lot can go wrong. 

We not like any other DevOps company. We are as passionate as they come.

We’re exclusively focused on tech-savvy venture-backed startups.  More than 90% of our customers are startups and combined - they’ve raised over $500M from the biggest names in VC. We prefer to work with startups because we speak the same language and have the same aspirations as you do.

This is our core competency. It’s all we do as a business. That’s why we can provide the assurances you need, where others cannot. 

Putting together a plan is time-consuming. We’ve spent years refining our plan. Few others, if any, have.

Knowing what combination of tools works together is non-trivial and requires some degree of trial and error. We eliminate the guesswork.

You might be able to achieve similar results in-house, given a solid team with the right experience. But consider if this is a core competency you need to own at this stage of the game? Would it provide the same level of assurances?

Our solution is 100% open source.

Our projects have been forked hundreds of thousands of times. We receive dozens of PRs every week. This is validation that we're providing is of immense value and works for others, not just us. 

It also means our licensing is straight forward.  Nearly everything is licensed under APACHE2 - a popular and well respected permissive license that lets you pretty much do what you want, just give us some credit where credit is due.

We offer total transparency. 

We are transparent by nature. You will not be able to find a single other company that has put more “proof of work” doing-what-we-do on their GitHub than us. Period. We are so confident about our quality of work that we put our money where our mouth is: literally everything you need to get started is on our GitHub.  

Since the work we showcase is public, it undergoes greater scrutiny, plus everything is peer-reviewed and tested. 

BONUS: We also specialize in integrating paid solutions like Sumologic, Teleport, Datadog, Splunk, Pagerduty, Codefresh, PagerDuty, Cloudflare, etc into your stack. Our configurations for all of these integrations are still free and open-source. 

What does all this mean for you? It saves you valuable time & money on implementation since we’ve done it before.

We don't want to dwell on the technical details. What we've created is a fully integrated platform leveraging mostly Open Source technologies and some optional SaaS services.

Even more amazing is 100% of our solution is published for FREE on GitHub (APACHE2).
You can implement it yourself. Hire us to make it happen faster.

Absolutely everything a Startup needs for a solid and secure foundation.

Below are real screenshots from past customer engagements. This is, at a minimum, what you should expect from your cloud platform. This is what we deliver in just a few months.

Are you ready to take your business to the next level with our DevOps Accelerator?

We’re talking to you. The serious startup with a smart team who knows how to execute; they just need someone to help to get their infrastructure & platform off the ground.

We get that you like to build things, but are too busy solving the business problems that only you can solve.

We want to make sure you can focus on your product roadmap because we know you have a lot riding on it.

That’s why we’ll help build it, eliminate all the guesswork, and level up your team in the process to operate it.

It’s big a win for your business and an even bigger win for your team.

They will love you for it.

We've invested tens of thousands of hours integrating Open Source Software, so you don't have to. 

We deliver a battle-tested solution fully integrated into your environments, running your software. Our strategy has been painstakingly refined over the course of years. The truth is provisioning infrastructure is easy. Provisioning the right infrastructure is hard. It can only be done faster when it's been done before. The faster it can be done, the cheaper your cost to own it.

 That’s how you know we will succeed. We work with countless startups across multiple industries. While the problems they solve are unique, their infrastructure is standardized. We selectively work with companies which we see are a good fit for the proven strategies we use for operating infrastructure at scale in the cloud.  Unfortunately, this means we turn down a lot of customers. 

Do yourself a favor and take 15-mins to discover the benefits of owning your infrastructure. 

Do you know what it will cost to do this in-house with your own team?

WARNING: You may be shocked. It's definitely not faster or cheaper.

Our calculator gives you the benefit of the doubt that you'll be able to both move faster and not make any mistakes. We do this on purpose to drive home the point that building it in-house is expensive!

We make the assumption that you'll double your velocity just by adding another engineer to your team (in our experience that seldom happens).  Also,  you need to factor in the value of getting done faster and with a less disruptive impact on your business. That's a major benefit that we provide.

"Do it Yourself" (DIY) is an order of magnitude more expensive.

1. Multiply the salary of your fully-loaded engineers by the number of engineers assigned full time to the project.
   
   
2. Add the cost to recruit talent as part of the first-year costs.
   
   
3. Consider the cost of retaining the team for 3-5 years. Most companies do not just hire teams for a single project and then lay them off.

Contrast that with if you instead hire us to do it. Then you only pay for what we deliver.
There's no long term commitment, and we cost a fraction of your cost to build it in-house.

 No smoke and mirrors here. We just want to give you a live, interactive demo that will show you how great your DevOps can be when you empower your team with the right tools and resources. Schedule a live demo to see it in action and get a quote you can afford.

Erik Osterman is a technical evangelist and insanely passionate DevOps guru with over 12 years of experience architecting systems for AWS. As CEO of Cloud Posse, a DevOps Professional Services company, he is committed to helping high-growth Startups, and Fortune 500 Companies rapidly migrate to AWS on Kubernetes to gain the upper hand and maximize their return on investment. Previously, he led major cloud initiatives at CBS Interactive as the Director of Cloud Architecture.

— Erik Osterman, Founder & CEO of Cloud Posse