Infrastructure that stays out of your way.
We design and operate the infrastructure modern systems run on — AWS, Azure, GCP, hybrid, and edge — with automated deployment, monitoring, and the reliability engineering to keep it boring.
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Plant systems reach the cloud over an encrypted tunnel; services run in containers over managed data stores, and monitoring alerts a person before a customer notices.
Components:
- Plant network: OT network, segmented from IT.
- Tunnel (VPN / private link): Encrypted, allow-listed, no inbound ports on the plant side.
- Services (containers): Deployed from CI, rolled back in one command.
- Data stores (DB, objects): Managed database and object storage with backups tested, not assumed.
- Monitoring (logs, metrics): Health, latency, error rate, cost.
- On-call: Someone is paged before a customer emails.
Connections:
- Plant network to Tunnel over VPN
- Tunnel to Services over MQTT
- Services to Data stores over SQL
- Services to Monitoring over events
- Monitoring to On-call over push
Sound familiar?
- It works on one machine and nobody knows how to deploy it anywhere else.
- We get a surprise cloud bill every quarter.
- If that server dies, we're down until someone rebuilds it by hand.
What's included
9 services under Cloud & Infrastructure.
Cloud Architecture
Cloud architecture services from Willowark: VPC design, account structure, security boundaries, and cost control shaped around how your software runs.
Learn more →Cloud Application Deployment
Cloud application deployment services: CI/CD pipelines, blue/green and canary releases, and rollback paths that make shipping to production routine.
Learn more →DevOps Engineering
DevOps engineering services from Willowark — CI/CD, environment automation, and delivery practices that shorten the path from commit to production.
Learn more →Infrastructure as Code
Infrastructure as code services using Terraform, OpenTofu, and Pulumi — versioned, reviewable cloud environments you can rebuild from a repository on demand.
Learn more →Containerization & Orchestration
Containerization and orchestration services — Docker images, Kubernetes and ECS deployment, autoscaling, and workloads that run the same everywhere.
Learn more →Cloud Migration
Cloud migration services — phased moves from on-prem or colo to AWS, Azure, or GCP with tested rollback plans and no bet-the-business cutover weekend.
Learn more →Monitoring & Observability
Monitoring and observability services — metrics, logs, traces, and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry that page on real problems.
Learn more →Edge-to-Cloud Infrastructure
Edge-to-cloud infrastructure services — edge gateways, store-and-forward buffering, MQTT pipelines, and fleet management for plants and remote sites.
Learn more →Reliability & Performance Engineering
Reliability and performance engineering services — load testing, SLOs, capacity planning, and failure testing that keep systems fast and available.
Learn more →How we approach it
Straightforward, in this order.
01
Architecture before accounts
We design the system on paper first — workloads, data flows, failure modes, cost model — then choose managed services that eliminate operational burden rather than add it.
02
Infrastructure as code
Every environment is reproducible from the repository. No hand-built servers that nobody can rebuild.
03
Monitoring from day one
Logging, metrics, and alerting ship with the first deploy, not after the first outage.
04
Security as structure
Least-privilege access, secrets management, and network segmentation between plant and cloud — so a compromised dashboard can't reach a machine.
Ask about Cloud & Infrastructure
Describe the problem. Get a straight answer.
One line is enough. An engineer replies within a business day.
Typical engagement
- Shape
- Architecture review first, then infrastructure-as-code build-out, then monitored handover. Often paired with an application project.
- Duration
- Assessments in days; a full environment build or migration typically three to eight weeks.
- Team
- One infrastructure engineer, with the application engineer looped in for deployment pipelines.
- You hold at the end
- Architecture and cost model
- Infrastructure as code in your account
- Monitoring, alerting, and backups
- Access model and security notes
- Pricing
- Scoped per project after a call; fixed-price phases where the scope is firm, time-and-materials where it isn't. How engagements work →
Work it out yourself
What would a system for this look like?
Answer six questions about what you have and what you want, and watch a system diagram assemble itself — machine, sensor, gateway, broker, store, dashboard, alert. Export it, or send it to us as the start of a scope.
How this gets priced
What moves the number, before there is a number.
We publish no rates — every engagement is quoted against a written scope. What we can tell you is what that scope will turn on, so you can see the shape of the price before the call.
Cost drivers
- What must reach the cloud from the plant, and how
- Uptime and recovery targets
- Data volume and retention
- Security posture — who can reach what from where
- How much runs continuously versus on demand
A typical first phase
An architecture review: the current state drawn as a diagram, the risks named, and a target state with the changes ranked by risk removed per effort. It ends with a scope for the first change.
What makes it expensive
- High-availability across regions
- Bridging a plant network that was never meant to be bridged
- Undocumented infrastructure inherited from a vendor
What makes it cheaper
- Managed services over self-hosted ones
- Outbound-only connections from the plant
- Monitoring and backups designed in, not bolted on
Who this is for
Built for operators, not for the demo.
Companies whose product or operation depends on infrastructure they don't want to think about — and OEMs adding cloud connectivity to physical products.
Available as a scoped project, contract engineering, or a fractional arrangement — see how we work.
Common questions
Asked before every Cloud & Infrastructure project.
Which cloud platform do you recommend?
The one that fits your workload, team, and existing commitments — we work across AWS, Azure, and GCP. For most small and mid-sized operations, the decision matters less than the architecture: managed services where possible, infrastructure as code, and monitoring from day one.
Can you connect on-premise equipment to the cloud?
Yes — edge-to-cloud architecture is a core part of our work: equipment and sensors feeding an edge computer, buffered and secured, syncing to cloud storage, dashboards, and alerts. Plants keep running when the internet doesn't.
How do you handle security?
Least-privilege access, secrets management, encrypted transport, network segmentation between plant and cloud, and audit trails. We design so that a compromised dashboard can't reach a machine, and a compromised device can't reach your business systems.
What does ongoing infrastructure support look like?
Monitoring and alerting are built into everything we deploy. From there, support ranges from documentation-and-handover to a retainer where we watch, patch, and improve the system continuously.
Which cloud providers do you work with?
AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure for full-featured cloud, and smaller providers or a well-run on-premise server when that is the honest fit. We recommend based on your existing accounts, your team's familiarity, and the workload — not on partner incentives.
Can you reduce a cloud bill that has grown out of control?
Usually. Most oversized bills come from a few causes: idle capacity, unmanaged storage and logs, oversized databases, and data transfer between regions. We audit usage, right-size, add budgets and alerts, and set up the automation that keeps it from drifting back.
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Have a system that should exist?
Tell us what your operation is doing manually, what isn't connected, or what you're trying to build. We'll tell you plainly whether and how we can help.