Cloud Management Program (CMP)

Introduction

The Cloud Management Program (CMP) streamlines the complexity of managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, and GCP. By reselling cloud services and providing essential support, CMP enhances visibility and control over your cloud environment. It offers best-practice security controls and FinOps tools for financial management, all at no additional cost. Whether through operational assistance or strategic consultancy, CMP helps you optimize cloud performance and cost-efficiency while ensuring robust security and compliance.

The program is designed to provide end-to-end management and support for your cloud infrastructure over time. It integrates multiple services, offering solutions to ensure your cloud environment operates efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively. The services can be purchased independently or collectively without dependencies on each other.

Cloud Procurement

Playground Tech helps you buy cloud services efficiently and effectively. Our team has the expertise to negotiate vendor contracts and choose the best procurement models. This means you get the cloud services you need at the best possible terms, allowing you to focus on using those services for your business.

We also help clients find and apply for funding opportunities through vendor programs. Our knowledgeable staff guides you using these programs, leading to more savings. Our support allows you to access cost-effective cloud solutions that fit your business needs.

Managed FinOps

With Managed FinOps, you get help to optimize your cloud spending by continuously monitoring, analyzing, and improving cost efficiency within your cloud environment. This service provides proactive cost governance, automated savings recommendations, and hands-on FinOps support to help you align cloud costs with actual usage and business goals. We help you to maximize your cloud investments while minimizing waste and unnecessary expenses.

Engineering Advisory

Engineering Advisory gives you access to an expert team that helps you make better decisions when building in the cloud. We have full visibility into your cloud environment, allowing us to provide proactive guidance, discuss potential solutions, and make strategic recommendations. By working alongside your team, we improve the quality of each decision, ensuring your cloud solutions are scalable, reliable, and cost-efficient without slowing down development.

Security and Governance

Our setup is designed to uphold your platform's health, security, and efficiency. With Security and Governance, you get detective and preventative controls to secure your cloud, reducing the risk and impact of bad behaviour. Our team follows best practices and sets up tools native to each cloud platform—AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud—to consistently monitor your cloud services.

Architectural Review

When conducting an Architectural Review, we assess your current cloud infrastructure and operational practices. You will receive a report highlighting strengths and weaknesses. In addition, you will get concrete and actionable advice on how to improve. We can also provide hands-on assistance with realising the improvements if you want.

A review evaluates your performance against these pillars:

• Operational Excellence

• Security

• Reliability

• Performance Efficiency

• Cost Optimization

• Sustainability.

Professional Services

Professional Services helps accelerate cloud adoption and optimize your infrastructure with expert-led project execution. These are typically scoped projects where our team works hands-on to design, implement, and improve your cloud environment, ensuring it meets your business needs. Whether you’re migrating to the cloud, modernizing applications, or optimizing performance and security, we provide structured, high-impact engagements to help you achieve your goals efficiently and effectively.