A cloud foundation built before the workloads
For CTOs and platform leads who need a cloud estate that is secure, explainable and ready for every new workload - not a tangle of accounts nobody owns.
Maatara Consulting is an AI-native technology consultancy, with teams in Concord, California and Bengaluru, India, that designs, builds, secures and runs cloud and AI systems. Our cloud infrastructure consulting delivers a landing zone as code on AWS, Azure or GCP before workloads arrive.
- Foundation review
- Landing zone design
- Build as code
- Security baseline
- Migrate workloads
- Operate and improve
How Our Cloud Infrastructure Consulting Works
Cloud infrastructure consulting is worth most before the estate grows. We design the account structure, identity, network, security baseline and tagging as one landing zone, define it in code, and then give teams a paved road to deploy onto it.
Landing zone before workloads
Accounts, identity, network and logging are designed together, so every new workload starts secure and allocated.
- One structure for every environment
- Guardrails applied automatically
Infrastructure as source, not state
Everything is defined in Terraform and reviewed like application code; nothing important is clicked into existence.
- Every change reviewed and versioned
- Rebuildable from Git
A bill you can explain
Account structure and mandatory tags map spend to teams and products from the first day.
- Tags enforced by policy
- Showback ready for FinOps
Paved roads, not blank pages
Teams get templates for common workloads, so the secure way is also the fastest way.
- Golden templates for common services
- Self-service within guardrails
Four Layers of a Cloud Landing Zone
Our cloud landing zone services cover all four on AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
Organisation and accounts
A multi-account or multi-subscription structure by environment and team, using AWS Organizations, Azure management groups or GCP folders.
Identity and access
Single sign-on, role-based access and break-glass procedures, with least privilege by default.
Network and connectivity
Hub-and-spoke networking, private endpoints, DNS and hybrid links sized to your traffic.
Security and logging baseline
Central logging, threat detection, encryption defaults and policy guardrails from the start.
Our Cloud Infrastructure Consulting Services
Use the full landing zone build or the pieces your estate is missing.
Cloud foundation review
An assessment of your current accounts, identity, network and controls.
Landing zone build
A production-ready landing zone on AWS, Azure or GCP, defined in code.
Terraform module library
Reusable, tested modules for networks, databases, clusters and services.
Identity and access design
SSO, roles and permission boundaries mapped to your org chart.
Network architecture
VPC/VNet design, private connectivity and hybrid links.
Policy guardrails
Preventive and detective controls that stop risky configurations.
Tagging and allocation
Tag standards enforced in code and policy for cost showback.
Workload migration
Moving existing services into the new landing zone with minimal disruption.
Platform engineering
Paved-road templates and pipelines teams use to deploy safely.
Why Teams Choose Maatara for Cloud Infrastructure Consulting
We design cloud foundations as engineers who also run workloads on them. Our CTO, Krish B, led engineering teams of 50+ at Dell Technologies and holds 30+ patents in data protection, storage efficiency and distributed systems. We work across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, define everything in code you own, and avoid locking you into us or a single tool.
Meet the teamCloud accounts nobody can explain?
Get a foundation review within two weeks.
What Teams Achieve
These are the commitments every cloud infrastructure consulting engagement works to.
Of infrastructure defined in code and reviewed before change
To a written foundation review of your current estate
Created with logging, guardrails and mandatory tags
Cost allocation ready from the first workload
Typical Deliverables
Everything our cloud infrastructure consulting team builds is yours, in your accounts and repositories.
Landing zone as code
Accounts, identity, network and baseline controls in Terraform.
Module library and standards
Tested, documented modules teams reuse.
Architecture document
Decisions, diagrams and the reasoning behind them.
Tagging and allocation policy
Tag standards and the policies that enforce them.
Migration plan
Order, method and rollback for moving existing workloads.
Operations runbook
How to add accounts, rotate access and respond to incidents.
Security questionnaire exposing gaps?
Build identity, logging and guardrails in from the start.
Cloud Foundations in Production
Cloud systems our engineers have built and run.
Digital Signage
Build · Cloud - One player codebase for Android, Linux and desktop, offline-tolerant playback, and a multi-tenant portal that lets non-engineers run forty sites from one login.
Ops-Intelligence
AI · Cloud - An agent that watches enterprise applications, correlates signals across dependent services and points to the dependency behind a failure. Known faults run on deterministic rules, a local model handles only new events, and an operator approves every change.
MoreSpace
Build · AI - An index-first pipeline that deduplicates files and moves them between a person's cloud storage accounts, built for around 5 PB of private files with authentication and encryption in transit on every transfer.
Cloud Foundations Across How You Go to Market
The right depth of cloud infrastructure consulting depends on your customers.
B2B & Enterprise
Customer data isolation, audit logging and evidence for security reviews, built into the landing zone.
Moving to AWS, Azure or GCP?
Land workloads on a foundation designed for them.
Our Cloud Infrastructure Consulting Process
Six steps from today's estate to a foundation your teams deploy onto.
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Foundation review
Assess accounts, identity, network, controls and spend, usually within two weeks.
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Landing zone design
Agree account structure, identity, network and guardrails.
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Build as code
Implement the landing zone and module library in Terraform.
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Security baseline
Turn on logging, detection, encryption and policy controls.
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Migrate workloads
Move existing services in planned waves with rollback.
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Operate and improve
Paved roads for teams, regular reviews and support.
Our Engagement Model
How a cloud infrastructure consulting engagement runs commercially.
Analysis
Free consultation and NDA, then read-only access to review your current estate.
Design
A proposal with landing zone scope, migration waves, milestones and a fixed price.
Development
Landing zone built in code with weekly reviews by your platform team.
Optimization
Guardrails, network and costs tuned on real workloads.
Deployment
Workloads cut over in waves with tested rollback.
Support
Monthly managed operations, or a full handover with documentation.
Tagging that never sticks?
Enforce it in code and policy instead.
Flexible Engagement Models
Three ways to buy cloud infrastructure consulting.
Dedicated team
A dedicated platform team that builds and runs your cloud foundation, billed monthly.
Hire a teamFixed scope
A foundation review or a landing zone build, at a fixed, milestone-based price.
Get a quoteAdvisory & hourly
Senior review of your cloud architecture, Terraform or account structure, by the hour.
Book advisoryReady for a cloud foundation that scales?
Start with a free cloud infrastructure consulting review.
Is Cloud Infrastructure Consulting a Fit for You?
A good fit if
- Your cloud estate grew without a plan and is hard to secure or explain.
- You are about to move significant workloads to AWS, Azure or GCP.
- Customers or auditors ask about identity, logging and data isolation.
- You want everything defined in code you own.
The wrong start if
- You run one small app that a managed platform already covers.
- You want click-ops changes with no code review.
- No one will own the platform after it is built.
Cloud Infrastructure Consulting FAQs
A cloud landing zone is the pre-configured foundation every workload deploys onto: account or subscription structure, identity and access, networking, logging and security guardrails. Built well and defined in code, it means every new service starts secure, compliant and cost-allocated without each team reinventing the setup.
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Ask our teamA cloud landing zone is the pre-configured foundation every workload deploys onto: account or subscription structure, identity and access, networking, logging and security guardrails. Built well and defined in code, it means every new service starts secure, compliant and cost-allocated without each team reinventing the setup.
Yes. Our cloud infrastructure consulting covers all three, and multi-cloud where it is justified. We use each provider's native building blocks, such as AWS Organizations and Control Tower, Azure management groups and policy, or GCP folders, wrapped in Terraform so the approach stays consistent.
Rarely all at once. We build the new landing zone alongside what you have, then move workloads in planned waves with rollback. Some services stay where they are if moving them adds risk without benefit, and we tell you which ones and why before any work starts.
Everything is defined in standard Terraform in your repositories and deployed to your accounts. We document decisions and train your team, so you can run and change the platform without us. We favour open, widely used tools over proprietary ones, so your engineers can hire for the skills.
Usually within days of agreeing scope. A written foundation review of your current estate typically takes about two weeks, and the proposal gives dates for the landing zone build and each migration wave, so you can plan releases and freezes around them.
As a fixed-scope project priced by milestone, a dedicated platform team billed monthly, or advisory by the hour. After a free consultation we send a fixed-price proposal, with no hidden costs, and an estimate of the monthly cloud spend the landing zone itself adds.
Need a Cloud Foundation You Can Build On?
Tell us which cloud you use and what is hurting: access, security, cost or speed. An engineer replies within one business day with a first view. Every cloud infrastructure consulting engagement starts with a free consultation.