The Cloud2 ISV Industry Cloud enables Independent Software Vendors (ISV)
Drive innovation, achieve scalable growth, and optimize costs.
Challenge
Cloud Complexity Slows Innovation
Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) face growing complexity in managing cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability, and controlling costs. Without the right tools and expertise, many ISVs struggle to maintain operational efficiency, bring products to market quickly, and manage unpredictable cloud expenditures. These challenges can slow innovation, increase operational overhead, and hinder growth in competitive markets.
The Cloud2 Solution
Tailored Cloud Services for ISVs
Cloud2’s ISV Industry Cloud is purpose-built to help ISVs move faster and innovate without being slowed down by cloud complexities. Our solution provides ready-made Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates, allowing ISVs to deploy robust, compliant environments quickly and consistently. Combined with best-in-breed CI/CD tools.
Our Managed Cloud and Governance as a Service solutions are fully customized to ISVs, ensuring seamless scalability, compliance, and cost control. By leveraging these tailored services, ISVs can focus on accelerating product development and expanding their market presence without the operational burden of managing complex cloud environments. Cloud2 provides the expertise and tools necessary to optimize infrastructure, enforce best practices, and drive long-term growth.
Benefits
Cloud2’s ISV Industry Cloud delivers comprehensive solutions that help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) innovate more rapidly, optimize costs, and maintain governance and security. Our tailored services provide the flexibility and scalability ISVs need to stay competitive, while reducing the complexity of managing cloud environments.
Scalable Cloud Infrastructure
Our cloud infrastructure is desgned to grow with your business, providing flexible deployment and management options tailored specifically for ISVs. This ensures that your platform scales effortlessly with demand while maintaining performance and reliability.
Enhanced Developer Experience with Platform Engineering
Optimized Cost Management
Compliance and Governance
With Cloud2, ISVs can adopt a developer-centric approach, leveraging automated DevOps practices to simplify operations and speed up development. This means more time for developers to innovate, with less focus on backend complexities
Our FinOps approach gives ISVs full control and visibility over cloud spending. By identifying cost-saving opportunities and streamlining resource allocation, Cloud2 ensures that your cloud environment remains cost-effective without sacrificing performance.
ISVs benefit from industry-leading CI/CD capabilities, backed by continuous compliance and security measures. This combination empowers ISVs to innovate while maintaining robust security and governance standards across their cloud environments.
Cloud2 for ISVs
Our tailored cloud solutions and strategic guidance are designed to support ISVs in optimizing infrastructure, automating processes, and minimizing operational overhead. The Cloud2 ISV Industry Cloud provides an ecosystem that combines cutting-edge cloud services with expert business strategies, allowing ISVs to focus on delivering exceptional software without being burdened by cloud complexities.
Case Study: iLoq
https://cloud2.net/references/iloq
features
Automated Infrastructure Management
Utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, platform engineers provision and manage scalable infrastructure, ensuring consistency and automation throughout the development lifecycle.
CI/CD Pipelines
Automated Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines streamline code integration, testing, and deployment, accelerating delivery and reducing manual errors.
Enhanced Developer Experience
By providing a consistent platform with reusable components, documentation, and training, developers experience reduced operational burden and streamlined workflows.
Security and Compliance
Integrated security best practices, access controls, and compliance frameworks ensure the platform meets organizational and regulatory standards.
Flexible Billing
Our Platform Engineering service offers a flexible, consumption-based billing model, allowing you to scale costs based on actual usage. This ensures you only pay for the resources you consume, providing full cost transparency and control while minimizing waste.
Solution
Partnering with Cloud2 and utilizing AWS, iLOQ transitioned from traditional data centers to a scalable, cloud-based architecture. Cloud2 implemented ready-made Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates and automated processes, enabling iLOQ’s developers to focus on product development while Cloud2 managed more the cloud setup and compliance.
Challenges
iLOQ needed rapid international expansion with a scalable, global infrastructure to support a growing user base. They faced challenges in managing operational complexity and ensuring compliance across regions, which required a reliable cloud partner.
Results
iLOQ achieved a faster time-to-market, scaling efficiently to new regions with improvement in deployment speed. With Cloud2’s tailored cloud architecture, iLOQ expanded its market reach, controlled costs effectively, and achieved sustainable growth.
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A Flexible Cloud Service Model Tailored for ISVs
Our ISV Industry Cloud is crafted to simplify complex cloud operations for software vendors. Instead of dealing with the hassle of managing resources and finding the right expertise, Cloud2 provides a dedicated team of specialists tailored to your specific needs. With this model, you gain more value—our team ensures that the right skills are applied to each task, allowing your team to focus on developing innovative software solutions without distractions.
Efficient Use of Resources and Transparent Pricing
We emphasize efficient resource allocation to deliver the best value for ISVs. Rather than committing to individual team members, you pay for a defined allocation, such as 2 Full-Time Equivalents (FTEs). However, this allocation taps into the collective expertise of Cloud2’s entire team, ensuring you benefit from a wide range of skills and knowledge. This flexible model gives you access to diverse expertise without being tied to a specific individual, enhancing productivity and value while staying within your budget.
We work closely with you to define the scope of tasks and responsibilities covered by this allocation, ensuring the right expertise is available when you need it most. This dynamic approach allows you to accomplish more while keeping cloud operations efficient and cost-effective.
Tailored Tools Accelerate Deployment
Cloud2’s Platform Engineering for ISVs comes with a vast library of customizable templates, allowing for rapid deployment of infrastructure and applications. These pre-built solutions enable us to fast-track your projects, reducing setup time and effort so you can focus on delivering value to your customers sooner.
Seamless Collaboration and Continuous Optimization
Our Platform Engineering team works closely with both developers and the cloud governance board, ensuring that all components work together seamlessly. For example, our team can take responsibility for maintaining specific benchmarks, such as ensuring a certain percentage of compliance with CIS standards, so you can trust that your security is always up to date.
Why Choose Us?
You don’t need to worry about resourcing or finding the right experts—we take care of it all for you. Our streamlined approach ensures that your needs are met without the hassle of managing multiple resources.
Simplicity and Peace of Mind
Flexible and Comprehensive Expertise
With our allocation-based model, you pay for a defined allocation but gain access to our entire team’s expertise. This flexible approach ensures efficient use of resources, providing you with the right skills at the right time to meet your specific needs.
Speed, Efficiency, and Reliability
Our tailored tools and expert team enable fast project launches and smooth operations, ensuring that all platforms and systems run efficiently. We also provide ongoing maintenance with a focus on high security standards, giving you confidence that everything is running smoothly.
Cloud2 services for ISV
At Cloud2, we are dedicated to providing cloud services that truly empower independent software vendors. From architecture to day-to-day operations, we design our services with your unique needs in mind – including regulatory compliance, security, operational resilience, and above all, the ability to scale with confidence.
Our mission is to be your trusted partner in cloud-driven growth. We help you leverage the cloud in a way that is meaningful, secure, and purpose-built to support the mission-critical nature of your software and the ambitions of your business.
Cloud Governance as a Service
Cloud governance is not a static document – it’s a critical part of your operating model that must evolve with your product, scale, and customer requirements. For independent software vendors (ISVs) and rapidly growing digital businesses, this is even more essential. Our Cloud Governance-as-a-Service delivers an automated, scalable foundation for your cloud operations, built on secure and compliant Landing Zones tailored to your environment.
In high-growth environments, the speed of development, continuous delivery, and global expansion introduce complex governance needs: from multi-region architecture and identity management to security baselines, compliance readiness, and cost control. We design and implement governance frameworks that support agility without compromising control – aligning cloud operations with your product roadmap and growth trajectory.
Our continuous service ensures that governance is not a one-time project but a living system – enabling you to scale confidently, stay audit-ready, and operate securely, while freeing up your teams to focus on innovation and delivery.
Platform Engineering
Cloud2’s Platform Engineering Services help independent software vendors and rapidly scaling tech companies streamline software delivery, accelerate innovation, and embed security and governance into their cloud-native platforms from day one.
We provide the automation, tooling, and cloud-native best practices your teams need to focus on building products – not managing infrastructure. From self-service developer platforms to automated CI/CD pipelines and integrated security controls, we deliver scalable platforms that evolve with your business.
Whether you’re building your first internal developer platform, re-architecting for scale, or looking to standardize cloud environments across teams, our services adapt to your growth stage, regulatory needs, and architectural choices.
By bridging platform and product teams, we ensure high-performing, secure, and compliant environments – empowering your engineers to deliver fast, stay secure, and scale confidently.
Managed Cloud
Our 24/7 Cloud Center takes full operational responsibility for your cloud environments – ensuring your applications stay online, secure, and performant as you scale. For independent software vendors and high-growth tech companies, we provide managed cloud services designed to support continuous innovation without compromising reliability.
With deep observability, automation, and cloud-native tooling, we proactively monitor, manage, and optimize your infrastructure. Our expert team anticipates and resolves issues before they affect your users – whether you’re running global SaaS platforms, real-time analytics, or high-availability APIs.
From scaling Kubernetes clusters to managing CI/CD pipelines and staying ahead of compliance requirements, we ensure your cloud is production-ready around the clock – so your teams can focus on building great software.
WHY Cloud2?
Cloud2 is a company of around 80 cloud experts. You'll always have access to a team that knows what's relevant for different cloud platforms and technologies.
One of us is best at Azure, another at AWS and a third at Google Cloud, but the technologies are not in a competition. We are guided by a burning interest in best practice which is what drives everything we do.
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"It's crystal clear that when you're building in the cloud, having the right platform and tooling in place is essential. Without it, you simply can't scale or innovate effectively. We emphasize this because it's crucial—but that's also why we've made this phase so streamlined and straightforward."
Anton Floor
Principal Cloud Advisor
Cloud2
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