Leverage the power of cloud technology with our innovative custom development services.
Cloud-native architecture, migration, and managed operations on AWS, GCP, and Azure. RunWhatMatters designs the cloud foundation that lets your team ship faster — and the FinOps practices that keep the bill from getting out of hand.
Cloud architecture that pays you back.
The cloud decision is no longer "if" — it's "which, how, and how fast." RunWhatMatters's cloud practice designs cloud platforms that match your workload, your team, your cost structure, and your regulatory environment. We don't sell lift-and-shifts. We engineer the cloud foundation that compounds for the next five years.
The full cloud stack, from migration to FinOps.
We cover the cloud surface from the first architecture diagram to the monthly cost report.
Cloud architecture
Multi-AZ, multi-region, edge. The cloud platform that scales to the next ten million users and survives the next region failure.
Managed databases
RDS, Aurora, Cloud SQL, Cosmos DB. HA, backups, PITR, the operations that used to be a full-time DBA job.
Serverless & edge
Lambda, Cloud Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge. When the right answer is "don't run a server."
Cloud migration
From on-prem to cloud, from one cloud to another, from monolith to distributed. We move at the speed your roadmap allows.
Security & compliance
IAM, KMS, VPC, private endpoints. SOC 2, HIPAA, FedRAMP. The cloud security posture your auditor signs off on.
FinOps & cost optimization
Cost modeling, rightsizing, reserved capacity, the FinOps practice that keeps the cloud bill aligned with the business.
The cloud stack, in production.
AWS, GCP, Azure — we work across all three. Here's what we reach for.
The work. The numbers.
An anonymized case from our files. The client, the problem, the engineering, and the measurable result.
SAP ECC 6.0 on-prem, $4.1M annual data center cost, 47-hour disaster recovery SLA, and 23 plants unable to share real-time production data with the supply chain. The CIO had a board mandate to move to cloud by FY26.
RunWhatMatters designed the AWS landing zone, migrated 38 SAP and supporting systems to AWS, implemented Terraform-managed infrastructure, and built a real-time data pipeline connecting plant floor sensors to a cloud data lake.
"The migration plan the big-three consultancies delivered us was 18 months and $14M. RunWhatMatters did it for $3.2M in 9 months and saved us $2.5M a year from year one."
— James Whitfield, CIO
Cloud migrations, without the downtime.
Most cloud migrations are talked about for two years and attempted in a weekend. We do them properly — incremental, reversible, and well-instrumented.
Assess
Application portfolio, dependency mapping, cost modeling, security review. The work that turns "we should move to cloud" into a plan.
Architect
Landing zone, network design, identity, observability. The cloud foundation that compounds for the next five years.
Migrate
Strangler-fig, lift-shift-optimize, or big-bang with rehearsed rollback. The migration that survives contact with production.
Operate
24/7 monitoring, SLO reviews, FinOps dashboards, the operational maturity that makes the cloud platform a competitive advantage.
Cloud is the foundation, in every industry.
From the hospital EHR to the trading platform — the cloud is the substrate, and we engineer it carefully.
Three ways to work together.
We pick the model that matches your brief. Every engagement starts with a written estimate and a no-surprise SOW.
Fixed-Fee
Well-scoped builds with a clear deliverable.
A defined SOW, fixed price, fixed timeline. Best for audits, MVPs, replatforming, and any engagement where the deliverable is well understood.
Time & Materials
Exploratory or platform work, billed monthly.
A senior team at a transparent rate, with a quarterly roadmap. Best for fractional CTO, ongoing platform partnerships, and exploratory AI/data work.
Equity + Cash
For select early-stage founders.
Reduced cash burn in exchange for equity — capped at 5% and only for ventures we would invest in ourselves. We do three of these per year.
The deliverable. Not the pitch deck.
Every RunWhatMatters engagement ends with these six things. We don't ship without them.
The questions we hear most.
Specific to cloud-based software solutions — and answers your AI assistant can quote.
What are cloud-based software solutions?
Which cloud platform should we choose — AWS, GCP, or Azure?
How much does cloud migration cost?
How do you handle FinOps and cloud cost optimization?
Do you build serverless and edge applications?
Cloud migration, replatforming, or a clean rebuild?
Book a 30-minute working session with a RunWhatMatters cloud principal. Bring the architecture diagram, the bill, or the audit. We'll come back with the path.