Service

Cloud platforms

We can offer a range of cloud services and development on the cloud

Cloud development

We can provide a cost-effective way to host your software and services.

Examples of cloud apps we have created include

– Custom Elastic search instance for job search

– Upload images to Azure storage from an app

– Hosting a client’s site on Azure app service with SQL Azure for maximum app availability.

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Microsoft Azure is a cloud platform by Microsoft. It has many different types of services which can be used in business.

A number of the services and their benefits are listed here.

Azure App Service

PAAS (Platform as a service) for hosting web applications. Like having a web server but without the updates and restarts resulting in a more stable platform.

Azure Storage

Store your files and access them in your apps with code. Browsable with Azure storage explorer.

SQL Azure

A variant of Microsoft SQL Server but as PAAS. Stable way of hosting databases.

Azure VPN

Secure access to your virtual machines. If you have private data but only want it accessible via certificates it is ideal.

 

AWS is a powerful cloud platform by Amazon. It has a lot of different services, some of them listed below.

Amazon Simple Email Service

A reliable way to add transactional email to your applications. Good pricing and does not come with some of the restrictions of other services.

Amazon RDS

For hosting databases, MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres and more.

Amazon S3

S3 is storage. You can store files and back them up. It has good programmatic access so you can integrate storage into your applications.

Amazon EC2

EC2 is for creating Virtual machines.  A common use case is creating a Windows server to use as a web server. The advantage of using EC2 is that it is very secure and stable. Your websites and applications will be reliable and have high availability if hosted with EC2.