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Cloud application development with deployment, monitoring, and backups built in.

Releases go out the same tested way every time, failures show up before customers notice, and the cloud bill maps to each application. We build on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud with tested backups and least-privilege access.

Discuss a cloud applicationHow the work runs

Illustration of a cloud migration plan built by Baybloom: account and access set up, a pipeline with rollback, the database moved to a managed service, cutover, and cost mapped.

Who hires us for this

Technology and operations leads who need an application built to run reliably in the cloud, a server-bound application moved there, or the operations around an existing cloud application put in order: pipelines, monitoring, backups, access, and cost.

Why now

  • An application runs on a server under a desk, or on a host nobody can log into.
  • A new application needs to be reliable, secure, and affordable from the first day.
  • The cloud bill is a surprise every month and nobody knows what it pays for.

What this covers

What cloud application development covers.

Cloud-native applications

Built on managed services for databases, storage, queues, and identity, so there is less to run and less to fail.

Deployment pipelines

Every change tested and released the same way, with a rollback, and no one deploying from a laptop.

Monitoring, logging, and alerting

Errors, latency, and failures visible before customers see them, with a named person responsible.

Security and access

Least-privilege access, secrets managed, backups tested, and an audit of who did what.

Cost visibility

What the account pays for, by application, with the ways to reduce it written down.

Moving applications to the cloud

Lift, replatform, or rebuild, decided by assessment and done in phases.

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A decision, not a pitch

Lift and shift, replatform, or rebuild cloud-native?

Moving to the cloud is three different projects. The assessment picks the one that fits the application and the business.

ConsiderationLift and shiftReplatformRebuild cloud-native
Fits whenThe application is sound and the server is the problemThe code is worth keeping; the database or platform is notThe application itself no longer fits
What changesWhere it runsManaged services underneath, same behaviorThe application, in phases
RiskLowModerateManaged by phases
BenefitReliability and backupsLess to run, easier to scaleEverything the old one could not do

When companies call us

If this sounds like your business, here is where we start.

An application runs on a server nobody dares restart

An assessment, then a phased move to the cloud with backups, monitoring, and a rollback at every step.

A new application must be reliable from day one

Built on managed services with a pipeline, monitoring, and backups as part of the first release.

The cloud bill is a monthly surprise

Cost mapped to applications, the waste removed, and the levers documented.

Deployments are manual and frightening

A pipeline with tests, staged releases, and rollback, so a release is routine.

How the work runs

Scoped in writing, built in releases, handed over.

  1. 01

    Assess

    What the application needs to run, what it connects to, what it costs, and what the risks are.

  2. 02

    Design the environment

    Accounts, access, managed services, networks, and cost, written down and reviewed.

  3. 03

    Build the pipeline first

    Tests, staged releases, and rollback, before the application lands.

  4. 04

    Deploy and cut over

    Monitoring and backups in place; the move in phases where the application is central.

  5. 05

    Hand over

    Runbooks, access, cost visibility, and a named owner on your side.

Deliverables

What you receive.

  • Written scope

    What the first release includes, what it leaves for later, the integration decisions, the acceptance criteria, and the price, agreed before development begins.

  • Release notes

    What changed in each release, what was tested, what the security review covered, and how to roll it back.

  • Documentation and runbooks

    How the system is built, how to run it day to day, and what to do when something fails.

  • Training and handover

    Sessions with the people who will use and run the system, and a handover checklist your team signs off on.

Every release ships with tests, a security review, and documentation, so your team can run what we build.

Your first release

What the first release could include.

The scope is written and agreed before development starts. This is the shape it usually takes.

In the first release

  • An account structure with least-privilege access
  • The application deployed on managed services with a documented pipeline
  • Monitoring, logging, alerting, and tested backups
  • Security controls: secrets, access, audit
  • Cost mapped to the application, with a runbook

Usually later

  • Additional applications on the same foundation
  • Scaling and resilience beyond the first release
  • Ongoing operations where the engagement includes it

Systems it may connect

Built to work with what you already run.

  • AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
  • Managed databases, storage, queues, and identity services
  • Source control and delivery pipelines
  • Monitoring and logging tools
  • Identity providers
  • The business systems the application connects to

How we build it

We build on the platform you already use or the one that fits, with managed services over self-run servers wherever possible, and infrastructure defined in code.

Logistics company

The operations application moves off the office server with tested backups and releases the team can repeat.

Plenty of logistics companies run a core application on a server in the office, with backups nobody has tested and one person who knows how to restart it. A replatform keeps the application, moves the database to a managed service, and deploys through a pipeline with rollback. Monitoring, alerting, and restore-tested backups are in place before cutover, and the office server stays available until the data reconciles. Access follows least privilege, and the cloud bill maps to the application. Manual deployments are the next thing to retire.

In plain terms

What is cloud application development?

Cloud application development builds and runs applications on cloud platforms using their managed services, with deployment pipelines, monitoring, backups, security, and cost visibility as part of the work. It also includes moving existing applications to the cloud, starting with an assessment and working in phases.

We build on the platform that fits and hand over the operations with the application: the pipeline, the monitoring, the backups, and the runbook.

Questions

Questions about cloud application development.

What buyers ask before a project starts, answered plainly.

Which cloud platform do you use?

We use the one you already run or the one that fits the application. AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud all serve the applications we build.

Can you move our existing application?

Yes, after an assessment that decides between lift and shift, replatform, and rebuild. Central applications move in phases with rollback at every step.

What about the cost?

We map cost to each application from the first release, remove waste, and write down the ways to control it. Cloud cost is a design decision, not a surprise.

Do you provide ongoing operations?

Yes, when the engagement includes it, with the boundary set in writing. Every environment is handed over with runbooks so your team can run it.

How do you keep it secure?

We use least-privilege access, managed secrets, encryption, tested backups, and audit logs, with a security review in every release.

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Guide

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