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Cloud Parallax
AWS & GCP Cloud-Native Partner

The infrastructure partner for founders who've outgrown 'good enough'.

You're past the freelancer stage. You're not yet at the in-house platform team stage. We're the engineering partner for that middle — designing your infrastructure on AWS or Google Cloud, then running it as the same team that built it. Year one through year five. Honest advice. Awkward questions. Engineering that works.

AWS Advanced Tier Google Cloud Partner SOC 2 Type II
Reference Architecture · Multi-cloud
Customer Web · Mobile · Partner APIs
Cloud Parallax Platform
AWS EKS · Lambda · RDS
GCP GKE · BigQuery · Pub/Sub
Identity SSO · IAM federation
Observability Otel · Grafana · CW
Workloads Data · ML · Core services
v2.4 · ref-arch
Founders we've built with —
and stayed with — across
finance, health, and logistics
BREVILL TRADE COveladurBRIERHALL MUTUALFOREDECK FREIGHTTarnview CareCabelle
What we do

Three propositions, not three sprints. The engineering team you don't have to staff.

01

Build it right the first time

The system you'd build for yourself if you had a senior infrastructure team — designed for the years after launch, not just the demo. Built by the engineers who'll still be running it in year five.

  • Years, not sprints
  • Built by the engineers who'll run it
  • No handoff to an ops team later
02

Your in-house infrastructure team, without the overhead.

The team you'd hire if you wanted to hire a team — without the headcount, recruiting, or attrition. Same engineers, year after year. Multi-year retainer, defined scope, change-order process for new work.

  • Same engineers, day one through year five
  • No headcount, no recruiting, no attrition
  • No 'the previous vendor said' moments
03

Honest engineering economics

Every dollar in the cloud should be driving growth, not silently funding idle resources or vanity architecture. Retainer-based, scope-defined, no surprise invoices. We'll tell you what's worth doing and what isn't — and turn down work that doesn't fit.

  • Every dollar tied to growth
  • Defined scope, no surprise invoices
  • We say no when we should
How we work

One team. Three phases. Years, not sprints.

Phase 01

Build

We design and build the infrastructure your business will actually grow into — on AWS or Google Cloud, production-ready from day one. Instrumented, documented, and deployed by the engineers who'll run it.

Phase 02

Operate

The infrastructure you don't have to think about. We keep it running — monitoring, incident response, security patching, capacity, cost — so you can spend your week on the parts of the business only you can do. Monthly retainer, defined scope, no surprises.

Phase 03

Advise

When your in-house team is ready, we step back into a senior advisory role — the experienced second opinion you can call on when the stakes are unfamiliar. We're successful when you eventually outgrow needing us. Most clients don't, for years.

A note from a client
Cloud Parallax has scaled seamlessly with our growth — same team, three years on. A perfect 10/10.
Vick Panchad
CEO, 1Courier Inc.
Who we work with

Founders who fit. Founders who don't. We say so up front.

A good fit
  • Software founders — SaaS, marketplaces, platforms — past the freelancer stage, not yet ready to staff a platform team.
  • Founders and CTOs who want one engineering partner across the full lifecycle, not separate vendors for build and run.
  • Founders preparing for enterprise sales who need the language of trust — SOC 2, ISO, auditable posture — built into the system, not bolted on.
Not a fit
  • One-off MVP builds with no operational follow-on.
  • Procurement-driven RFPs looking for the lowest hourly rate.
  • Engagements where scope is expected to expand without budget conversations.

If the second list describes your project, we'll respectfully pass — and likely save us both time.

Ready when you are

Let's spend an hour figuring out what you actually need.

One call, no pitch deck. We'll listen, ask the awkward questions, and tell you honestly whether we can help — or who else we'd trust if we can't.