Cloud Solutions

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a co-founder and CTO of a company that's been in the outsourcing business for more than 6 years and provides various services to its customers.

For what projects/services did your company hire Cloud Solutions?

We had a challenging project for enabling ETL on AWS and making it scalable as it had to process terabytes of data.

What were your goals for this project?

1. Process seamlessly data from several provides around the world
2. Increase the security and scalability of the AWS setup
3. Create end to end CI/CD process

How did you select Cloud Solutions?

I had a good reference for Cloud Solutions and the company reacted quite fast to all our inquiries and was able to start working on the project in no time.

Describe the project in detail.

Cloud Solutions joined our internal team as an additional resource and was able to deliver on time and with the expected quality of the project requirements.

What was the team composition?

Petar (CEO of Cloud Solutions) joined our internal team of DevOps, Developers, QAs, and PMs to help us deliver the expected results faster. He was very eager to share his knowledge with the team and understand the requirements and the inner workings of the platform.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Within the project's duration, we were able to achieve the initial goals and have a platform that we can extend and scale.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Petar (CEO of Cloud Solutions) was always available and always showed motivation to solve the challenges we were facing. He has a calm personality and can work under pressure without showing it.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Cloud Solutions is a young company that seems to do everything to impress its clients and make the customer happy at the end. As a result, you get a very flexible and personal dedication to your projects. If there is a problem, I know I can always call Petar and he will solve it as soon as possible.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a Business Marketing Lead at DevriX, a WordPress Development agency.

For what projects/services did your company hire Cloud Solutions?

We needed to hire a professional AWS Cloud & DevOps specialist for one of our customer's WordPress projects.

What were your goals for this project?

Our goal was to use AWS Cloud as a cloud provider and place proper CI/CD processes in order to catch development issues early and deploy quickly in a sustainable way. The key metrics that we needed to achieve were performance (using computing resources efficiently), reliability (a workload that quickly recovers from failures), and cost (to understand and control where money is being spent).

How did you select this vendor?

Our CEO, Mario, has known Petar for a long time throughout his career before Cloud Solutions has been found. When this project came, we knew that Petar was the right person to contact.

Describe the project in detail.

We needed to host WordPress on top of AWS Cloud for a production workload with minimal management responsibilities required. In a short time, Petar’s team managed to offer us several architecture options and thoroughly explained the differences between all of them.

After a short discussion with our customer, they started working on the one option that most closely matched the requirements and budget of our project. Once everything was set up, they managed to build multi-step CI/CD processes in order to allow our developers to deploy quickly and keep delivering continuously.

What was the team composition?

We've been in touch mainly with Petar, but have also worked with several of their senior consultants.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

The project was delivered on time and within budget. Our customer was satisfied with the work delivered, and Cloud Solutions had a huge and positive influence on the project overall. From every metric that we can gather, we’ve had a successful relationship.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

I would say, we've found that communication was one of their strongest skills. Their team was always reachable and were able to fix issues or answer questions immediately, which made the workflow between our teams as smooth as possible.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

Their deep professional experience on top of AWS Cloud was really important to us and our customer. They're really strong on the architecture, infrastructure-as-code and automation side.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I can’t think of anything for them to improve.

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am a freelance Android developer, working on various projects for multiple companies.

For what projects/services did your company hire Cloud Solutions?

We wanted to hire an AWS consultants to build and automate our back-end infrastructure, supporting several mobile applications.

What were your goals for this project?

The main goal for this particular project was to build and fully automate the back-end on top of AWS Cloud.

How did you select this vendor?

Petar (Founder and CEO) and I know each other for several years and I was confident they would provide the best quality.

Describe the project in detail.

We were using an on-premise infrastructure and we wanted to migrate it on the AWS Cloud. We had 3 main requirements that needed to be achieved - stable, scalable and cost efficient.

After several overviews and meetings, they created a detailed plan of the services that were going to be used, proposed several different infrastructures and gave us different cost for each. After we made our choice, they started building and automating it from the scratch.

At the end, we had everything automated and we managed to release several times a day without interruptions.

What was the team composition?

We were talking mainly with their CEO, but there were other people joining the meetings and picking different tasks.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

We are really pleased that they managed to finish before the estimated time and the cost was lower than the initial agreed.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We were amazed how easily it was to work with their team and also they had good internal management in place.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They really understood our needs, plans, current infrastructure and managed to start straight away after several meetings.

Are there any areas for improvement?

No

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO of a company with 2 million users that needed more scalable and cost-effective server architecture

For what projects/services did your company hire Cloud Solutions?

We wanted to hire an AWS consultants to review our current infrastructure and propose an improvement and cost optimization plan.

What were your goals for this project?

Our goal was to improve our AWS serverless + terraform architecture and needed someone to take a look at our costs - we were already spending more than the initial plan.

How did you select this vendor?

We engaged Cloud Solutions due to a good referral from a friend, who completed a project with them recently and shared a very positive feedback regarding their work.

Describe the project in detail.

We had our infrastructure done by our developers initially, but it felt like something was missing and the costs were too high. One day, by talking with a friend, he showed me their website. After few talks, we signed the contract and they were onboarded. They started with some infrastructure propositions and changes, which turned out to be our bottleneck. After that, they created a nice cost presentation and proposed us a cost optimization plan, that we believed in and gave them a green light to implement.

What was the team composition?

We were communicating mainly with Petar, Cloud Solutions CEO.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

They managed to improve our infrastructure significantly and reduce our costs by almost 40%, which was an instant ROI for us.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Normally it's hard to manage a project that is done remotely with third party company, but that was not the case with them! The communication was easy, and their work was done transparently - we knew what they were doing at any point in time. They had daily standups and wrapups with our developers and combined with Jira for planning and tracking, it was just like running our internal team.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

The most impressive thing was how fast they managed to understand our infrastructure, pain points and actually start with their work.

Are there any areas for improvement?

None

Please describe your company and your position there.

I am the CEO and Founder of the IT company focused on the Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning. We work on developing the custom software solution and enhance the product with AI and ML algorithms.

For what projects/services did your company hire Cloud Solutions?

We wanted to check and automate our AWS infrastructure and design and implement a release process.

What were your goals for this project?

We brought them on board for AWS Architecture and DevOps work. At the time, we lacked an in-house DevOps specialist and had an infrastructure that needed automation.

How did you select this vendor?

I’d known Petar (Founder and CTO) professionally for several years and I knew the quality of his work.

Describe the project in detail.

This project was a critical part of our business, since it's the underlying infrastructure, so we wanted to make it stable, scalable and cost effiecient. Unfortunately, we didn't have the internal capabilities to handle it and we were with tight deadlines.

Cloud Solutions started with a deep dive into our existing cloud infrastructure and created a detailed breakdown of suggested changes and necessary optimisation. After that, they were able to fully automate it and implement a Blue/Green release process.

What was the team composition?

Their CEO is our primary point of contact and sometimes other people interface with us regarding specific tasks.

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

They completed the project according to our requirements and most importantly - in time. This was helpful because it was a project that we needed to complete with a tight deadline, but couldn't do it inhouse.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

We enjoyed working together with them - the communication, project management, and constant updates made it easy for us to understand what they were working on.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

I appreciated the quality of their work and team dedication. They showed a real understanding of our needs, and their project management was spot on.

Are there any areas for improvement?

Nothing I can think of.