⬡ Cloud Services — the pieces around your application

Everything an application needs.
Already wired together.

Storage, queues and caches are rarely the hard part. Assembling five vendors into something that works, stays secure and can be explained to an auditor is the hard part. These arrive already belonging to the same system.

10 GB of object storage included, with no card required to begin.

One
Account for every piece
Zero
Integrations to write
Included
10 GB of object storage
One
Bill, in one currency

What teams run on it

◆User uploads and generated media◆Static assets behind an application◆Background job and task queues◆Session and response caches◆Export and report artefacts◆Build outputs and release archives◆Everything that used to need its own vendor◆User uploads and generated media◆Static assets behind an application◆Background job and task queues◆Session and response caches◆Export and report artefacts◆Build outputs and release archives◆Everything that used to need its own vendor
Why it is one product

Four problems that come
from assembling it yourself.

Each individual service is straightforward. The cost is in the seams: the credentials, the network rules, the billing, and the person who knows how it all fits.

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Provisioned with the application

Storage and services belong to the thing that uses them, so there is no separate account to create and no credential to copy between two dashboards.

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One set of credentials

Access is granted once, in one place, and removed the same way. Not five vendors with five rotation schedules and one forgotten.

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One bill, one currency

Every piece on the same invoice as your compute and databases. No reconciliation exercise across providers at the end of the quarter.

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Scoped to your account

What you store is reachable by your account and nothing else, enforced where the data lives rather than by a rule somebody configured.

The console

What is running and what it is using — on one screen.

Services, capacity and the included allowance in one view, so the question 'what have we actually got running' does not require three logins to answer.

  • Everything in one list
    Services and the applications they belong to, rather than a separate dashboard per piece.
  • Usage against the allowance
    What is included and what you are using, so the limit is visible well before you reach it.
  • Limits enforced at the write
    A deployment that would take you past the allowance is refused with the reason, not discovered on an invoice.
  • Capacity shown with its cost
    What each piece is using and what that means, in the same place as the figure itself.
Cloud ServicesLive
Object storage used3.1 of 10 GB
Services running6
Applications attached4
Separate vendor accounts0
Invoices to reconcile1
What changes

The integration tax.

Nobody budgets for it, everybody pays it. It is the weeks between having chosen your services and having them working together safely.

Assembled from vendors
  • ✕An account and a contract per service
  • ✕Credentials copied between dashboards
  • ✕Rotation schedules that drift apart
  • ✕Invoices in different currencies
  • ✕Access granted five times, revoked four
  • ✕An audit that spans five providers
Cloud Services
  • ✓One account for the whole set
  • ✓Credentials issued in one place
  • ✓One rotation, applied everywhere
  • ✓One invoice, one currency
  • ✓Access removed once, completely
  • ✓One system to show an auditor
What it removes

The weeks between choosing
and running safely.

Zero
Integrations to write
The pieces already belong together.
One
Place access is granted
And one place it is revoked.
10 GB
Object storage included
Before anything is charged.
One
Invoice to reconcile
Across every service you run.
The details that matter

Infrastructure that stays out of the way.

Your storage is scoped to you, at the store

What an account can reach is decided where the data lives, not by application code remembering to filter a prefix. The common failure — one customer reading another customer's files because a path was built wrong — is not available as a mistake.

Attached to the application

Services belong to what uses them, so deleting the application takes its storage with it.

Measured from what was written

Usage is the byte count actually stored, not an estimate that drifts from reality.

No egress surprise

What you pay is on the pricing page, in the same units you will be billed in.

The allowance is checked before the write

A deployment that would take you past what is included is refused with the reason in its own log — before the bytes are stored, not after.

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We cancelled four vendors in a month. The saving was real, but the thing that mattered was having one place to answer a security questionnaire from.
Head of Platform · Financial services group
Before you move

What teams ask.

What is actually included?+

Object storage, queues and caches, provisioned alongside the applications that use them. The free allowance covers 10 GB of object storage, with usage measured from the bytes actually written.

Do I need a separate account for each piece?+

No. One account covers all of it, with one set of credentials and one invoice. That is the point of it being a single product rather than a bundle.

How is my data kept separate from other customers?+

Access is scoped where the data is stored rather than by application code filtering a path. A request for something outside your account is refused at the store.

What happens when I delete an application?+

Its storage goes with it. Nothing is left behind holding data you believed you had removed.

How is usage measured?+

From the byte count actually written when a deployment publishes. It is a measurement taken once, not a running total that something has to remember to adjust.

What happens if I exceed the allowance?+

The write is refused, with the reason, before anything is stored. You are told you are at the limit rather than finding out from a bill.

The pieces around it.
Without the assembly.

Storage, queues and caches that already belong to the same system as everything else you run.

10 GB of object storage included. No card to begin.