Cloud Awl was founded in 2021 in Furniture City, Grand Rapids, Michigan. Our goal was to provide services to local companies and increase uptake of best cloud practices in companies around the Grand Rapids area.
How can I save money in the cloud?
Regardless if you are already in the cloud, or planning a move into the cloud, we can help you reduce the management overhead your software product or infrastructure.
- Switching to dynamically provisioning infrastructure based on load
- Automate replacement infrastructure available to instantly respond to outages
- Enable database backups and snapshots storage for disaster recovery
- Secure remote computing environments
- Use managed services to reduce maintenance overhead
- Monitor resource usage to consolidate and depreciate at the end of your life cycle
Why go with Cloud Awl?
We’ve got experience moving legacy applications into the cloud as well as improving automation around existing cloud engagements.
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DevOps Accelerator. You own your infrastructure. We build it and develop it, you can operate it and update it.
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Iterative Development. Deploy your application quick, and then update your infrastructure as your needs expand.
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3rd Party Software Integration. We offer integration services to allow you to use 3rd party software packages with you existing systems.
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Custom Development. We have experience in over 10 programming languages and have worked with all well known cloud and database solutions. We can offer you a custom pipeline or application to fit any business need you may face. The Cloud Awl team has developed many custom applications including a full blown point of sale application used by a national coffee vendor.
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Email and Web Hosting. Although we are not an ISP, We do offer limited email and web hosting options for our customers.
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Security Risk Assessment. We can offer your company a security risk assessment which will outline any areas of concern as well as an action plan for the future of your business systems and networks.
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Fixed-Fee Structure. Our unique fixed fee approached allows us to become a true technology partner and help you plan ahead instead of responding retroactively to technological issues that cause downtime and decreased profits. This structure allows for the simplified budgeting on your end and headaches associated with spikes in operational costs.
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Transparency. Open lines of communication give you an unfiltered look at what goes into IT management. By lifting the veil of the IT world, we hope to encourage a more proactive approach to IT.
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Holistic Approach. We are not the type of service partner that will pop into your datacenter to help you change a hard drive. We work best when we’re able to work as an extension of your team in a capacity that allows us to provide support in a flexible fashion.
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Proactive. Our approach is proactive in nature which encourages mutually beneficial outcomes. This saves you in terms of cost and risk associated with technology issues.
Why are you named Cloud Awl?
Cloud Awl gets it’s name from the wooden furniture tool used to scribe a line to be followed by a hand saw, or chisel, when making woodworking joints or other operations.
Our mission at Cloud Awl is to scribe a path for your business to follow and start you on the cut to get your product dimensioned into shape with the grain.