Cloud & DevOps
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Cloud & DevOps: How to Scale Without the Growing Pains
Slow deployments, servers that buckle under spikes and 2 a.m. outages are symptoms of systems built to launch, not to scale. Here's what actually makes growth boring.
Service · Cloud & DevOps
Cloud architecture, migration, CI/CD and infrastructure as code on AWS and Azure, with monitoring and cost control built in. Run by senior engineers in Sarajevo for companies in Bosnia, Germany and the EU.
A good deployment is one nobody notices. If releases happen monthly because they hurt, if one person holds the only copy of the server setup, or if the cloud bill grows faster than the business, the infrastructure is costing you more than it should. We fix that with cloud and DevOps work that is measurable: how often you can release, how fast you recover, and what a month really costs.
Elevate Solutions provides cloud and DevOps consulting from Sarajevo for companies in Bosnia, Germany and the EU, with senior engineers only. We run our own SaaS on this foundation: PatchBee, which packages and patches third-party apps for Microsoft Intune, is hosted on Microsoft Azure in West Europe and serves a catalog of 6,300+ apps. The practices we recommend are the ones we rely on ourselves, every day.
We design and run the platform underneath your software: cloud architecture on AWS or Azure, the migration path from on-premise or from a single oversized VM, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure written as code with Terraform so it can be reviewed, repeated and rolled back. Containers with Docker and Kubernetes where the workload justifies them, managed services where it does not. Observability and cost control are part of the design, not an afterthought.
Twenty seconds of traffic with two spikes. Add and remove servers to keep the response time green without overspending.
Infrastructure work follows the same four phases as everything else we do. Discover takes 1 to 2 weeks: we review your current setup, pipelines, bills and risks in workshops with your team, and you receive a written brief with a fixed-price estimate for the next phase. Design produces the target architecture, the migration plan and the roadmap, validated with you before we touch production. Build moves in small, reversible steps with a demo every week and direct access to the engineers doing the work, no black boxes. Elevate is where infrastructure earns its keep: we monitor, tune costs and scale as the load grows, and the team stays after go-live.
Discover. Workshops with your team to define scope, risks and what success means. You get a written brief and a fixed-price estimate for the next phase.
You get infrastructure you can rebuild from a repository, pipelines your developers trust, and dashboards that tell you what is happening before a customer does. Everything runs in your own cloud accounts under your name. We hold no keys you cannot revoke.
This work pays off when releases are slow or risky, when the infrastructure depends on one person, or when the cloud bill has become a line item nobody can explain. It is also the natural next step for teams moving off on-premise servers or a single provider contract.
Neither is wrong. Azure often fits companies already on Microsoft 365 and Entra ID; our own PatchBee, built for Microsoft Intune, runs on Azure. AWS tends to fit teams that want the widest choice of managed services. We look at your existing contracts, skills and compliance needs in Discover and recommend one, with the trade-offs written down.
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Send a short brief and, if you can, last month's cloud bill. A senior engineer replies within one business day.
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