CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE

AWS and Azure administration for small and mid-sized businesses.

NexDesk administers cloud accounts for companies that do not employ a platform engineer: cost control, identity and access management, backup verification, infrastructure as code, and new environment builds. Cloud spend rises quietly through instances that were never switched off, volumes provisioned larger than required, and resources whose owners have left. The work is to keep the account understandable as well as economical.

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WHO THIS IS FOR
  • →Companies with an AWS or Azure account that grew organically and nobody fully owns.
  • →Teams moving from on-prem servers or a colocation cage into the cloud for the first time.
  • →Growing orgs whose cloud bill jumped 40% last quarter and nobody can quite explain why.
  • →Founders who set up cloud themselves and now need someone to take it over properly.
WHAT WE MANAGE
AWS + Azure
  • · Account / subscription setup
  • · IAM roles + SSO federation
  • · VPC / VNet design
  • · EC2 / VM lifecycle
  • · Load balancers + DNS (Route 53)
  • · S3 / Blob storage governance
Cost & governance
  • · Cost audits + savings plans
  • · Right-sizing recommendations
  • · Reserved instances / commitments
  • · Tagging + chargeback
  • · Budget alerts
  • · Waste cleanup
Ops & migrations
  • · On-prem to cloud migration
  • · Backup + disaster recovery
  • · Site-to-site VPN
  • · Multi-region redundancy
  • · Monitoring + alerting
  • · Terraform / IaC hand-off
HOW WE WORK
Cost audit is the fastest win

Almost every account of this size carries fifteen to thirty per cent waste in idle instances, over-provisioned volumes, orphaned resources and unused reserved capacity. The first deliverable is a costed inventory identifying what can be removed, what can be resized and what must stay.

IAM before anything else

NexDesk inventories every access key, every IAM user and every over-permissioned role before changing anything else. Cloud environments without identity discipline fail in ways that are difficult to detect and expensive to investigate afterwards.

Terraform where it earns its keep

Anything spanning multiple resources or rebuilt regularly, such as networking, environments and IAM, is managed as code. One-off resources stay in the console with documented configuration, because maintaining Terraform for a single bucket costs more than it returns.

Backup you can actually restore from

Backup jobs that have never been restored from are not backups. NexDesk performs a timed restore of every business-critical workload each quarter and issues a written report stating the recovery time achieved.

FREQUENTLY ASKED
AWS or Azure — which for our next project?
If your identity is already Microsoft 365 / Entra ID, Azure integrates more cleanly. If you're on Okta or Google Workspace and doing anything data-heavy, AWS has the deeper service catalog. We help you pick per-project rather than dogmatically.
We're on a colocation cage / on-prem servers. Should we move to cloud?
Not always. Cloud is cheaper for spiky, elastic workloads and more expensive for steady-state compute you run 24/7. We do the honest math on 3-year TCO before recommending a migration.
How do you handle secrets and credentials?
AWS Secrets Manager or Azure Key Vault for anything programmatic. 1Password / Bitwarden for human-facing shared credentials. No credentials in .env files committed to git, no shared logins in shared spreadsheets.
Do you build things or just maintain them?
NexDesk does both. Standard managed plan covers ongoing operations. New buildouts (a fresh VPC, a new environment, a migration) are quoted as project work.
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One conversation to scope what you have, what you're missing, and whether we're a fit. Managed plans start at $2,500/month.

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