VELOCIVTECH

Cloud Infrastructure Best Practices

When your cloud foundation is weak, everything else becomes harder โ€” from automation to observability to uptime.

At VelocivTech, we treat infrastructure not as a one-time setup, but as a living foundation for your business. Here's how we approach cloud engineering the right way:


โ˜๏ธ 1. Build Infrastructure as Code from Day 1

We use tools like Terraform, AWS CDK, or Pulumi to define every component of your infrastructure. This ensures:

  • Version control of every change
  • Easy rollback and cloning of environments
  • Automated testing and CI integration

๐Ÿ” 2. Design with Security by Default

Security isn't a checklist โ€” it's a mindset:

  • Principle of least privilege (IAM roles, access policies)
  • Encrypted secrets via AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault
  • Network segmentation (VPCs, subnets, security groups)
  • CloudTrail logging + audit-ready change tracking

๐Ÿ’ฐ 3. Optimize for Cost Without Sacrificing Performance

Cloud waste is real. We help teams:

  • Leverage spot instances, Graviton CPUs, and autoscaling
  • Use cost explorer and resource tagging for visibility
  • Right-size RDS, Lambda, and ECS/Fargate services
  • Archive infrequently accessed data automatically

๐Ÿงช 4. Create Safe CI/CD Pipelines

We build GitOps-style pipelines that:

  • Run terraform plan checks
  • Scan for secrets
  • Enforce approval gates
  • Provide preview environments with minimal manual input

๐Ÿ” 5. Add Observability That Works

We use CloudWatch, Datadog, or open-source stacks (Grafana + Loki) to provide:

  • Real-time log aggregation
  • Uptime and latency dashboards
  • Alerting based on SLOs โ€” not just status codes

Cloud isn't โ€œset it and forget it.โ€
We help companies run lean, stay secure, and scale smoothly โ€” without burning time or budget on the wrong abstractions.

Want help hardening or scaling your cloud stack? Reach out here.