Startup Cloud Foundation
A cloud foundation that scales with you and costs almost nothing until it should.
Who it is for
Startups from pre-seed to Series A, particularly those selling to enterprises or handling sensitive data.
Startups rarely have time to set up cloud properly, and pay for it later with outages, surprise bills, and failed security questionnaires. We give you a production-grade foundation in a couple of weeks, funded largely by startup credits.
Deliverables
Startup credits and program support
Application support for the Google for Startups Cloud Program and other credits.
Landing zone as code
Projects, IAM, networking, and environments in Terraform with CI/CD.
Deployment platform
Cloud Run or GKE Autopilot pipelines so developers ship on day one.
Cost controls
Budgets, alerts, and right-sized defaults so credits last.
Security baseline
The controls enterprise security questionnaires ask about, with SOC 2 readiness in mind.
Monitoring and backups
Alerting, uptime checks, and tested recovery.
Engagement approach
Plan
Half-day workshop on product, data, compliance targets, and team.
Build
One to two weeks delivering the foundation as code.
Onboard
Developers trained, first service deployed through the pipeline.
Review
Quarterly check-ins on cost, security, and scaling as you grow.
What you walk away with
- Production-ready cloud in weeks, mostly paid for with credits
- Enterprise security questionnaires answered with confidence
- A bill that stays predictable as usage grows
- No costly re-platforming at Series A
- Google Cloud
- Terraform
- Cloud Run
- GKE Autopilot
- Cloud Build
- Secret Manager
- Cloud SQL
- Firebase
Common questions
We are already on AWS. Does this apply?
Yes. We build the same foundation on AWS when that is the right choice, and we can help evaluate a move to Google Cloud if credits or AI tooling make it attractive.
How much does the foundation cost to run?
For most early-stage startups, tens to a few hundred dollars per month before credits, thanks to serverless defaults.
Can this get us SOC 2?
It puts the technical controls in place. Combined with a compliance automation platform and policies, startups typically reach SOC 2 Type I within a few months.
Often combined with
Fractional CTO for Startups
A part-time technical co-founder for pre-seed to Series B: architecture, hiring, and an investor-ready technology story.
Learn moreMVP & Launch Sprint
A fixed-scope six to ten week build that takes a validated idea to a launched, instrumented product.
Learn moreTechnical Due Diligence & Investor Readiness
Independent assessment of code, architecture, team, and security for founders raising and investors evaluating.
Learn moreTalk to us about Startup Cloud Foundation
A 30-minute call is enough to tell whether this is the right engagement and what it would take.