Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure for Custom Software in Sydney & Melbourne

It depends on what you already use, the services your software needs, your team's skills and your data location requirements. Our published case studies show both: Clinic1, Fieldr and Shoprun on AWS, and BizCap on Microsoft Azure. We recommend the provider that suits your situation, not the one we prefer. Your choice also affects cost and who can support it later, so we write the reasons down.

Usually not. Many business applications run well on simpler managed services, and Kubernetes adds upgrade work: the project supports only the three most recent minor versions, and version 1.34 reaches end of life on 27 October 2026. We recommend it when you have many services, genuine scaling needs or a team that can run it. Otherwise we pick the simplest platform that meets your needs.

You choose the region at setup, and we record it. AWS has two Australian regions, Sydney and Melbourne, and Microsoft Azure also offers Australian regions. Hosting in Australia is common, but it does not by itself settle your privacy obligations, including rules on disclosing personal information overseas through support tools, analytics or backups. Confirm your obligations with an adviser.

We plan for it before it happens: backups that are separate from the main environment, restore tests that are actually run, access controls, and a written recovery order. Since 30 May 2025, businesses with annual turnover of $3 million or more, and operators of critical infrastructure, must report ransomware payments to the Australian Signals Directorate within 72 hours. That is a reporting rule, not advice to pay. Speak to a lawyer and your insurer about your own position.

We tag resources by environment and purpose, set budgets and alerts, switch off non-production environments out of hours where it is safe, and review the bill monthly for the first quarter after launch. Cloud bills usually grow quietly, so the review is the main control. We show you where each dollar goes.

We do not claim any here. The Essential Eight is the Australian Signals Directorate's baseline set of mitigation strategies. In June 2026 an ASD official told iTnews that ASD expects to replace it with an Essentials series, with chapters including cloud, though the timing was described as tentative. We can build to the controls you need, and an independent assessor is the right person to certify or assess them.

Often yes, after a review. We start with a Release Path Map and a Blast Radius Review: how code reaches production, who can change what, what is backed up, and what would hurt most if it failed. We then agree what to fix first. We are open about what we find, including problems with earlier work.

It depends on the number of environments, services and integrations, how much is already in place, and the level of monitoring and recovery your risk requires. A review of an existing setup is much smaller than building a new platform. We scope the first piece before quoting.