Managed Cloud Platform
Your cloud, fully managed. Governance, security, workloads, optimization. Pick the tier that fits, we handle the rest.
Your cloud, fully managed. Governance, security, workloads, optimization. Pick the tier that fits, we handle the rest.
Problem
You moved to the cloud to move faster. Instead, you're buried in alerts, compliance gaps, cost surprises, and a growing list of things nobody owns. Your teams are firefighting infrastructure instead of building what matters.
Approach
Managed Cloud Platform wraps your entire cloud operation into a single managed service. Governance, infrastructure, connectivity, security, workloads. All covered. You pick the depth. We bring the expertise, the tooling, and the people who actually care.
Strategic Partnership
Your dedicated CCoE isn't a meeting. It's the engine that keeps your cloud moving forward. Architects, service leads, and ops people who know your environment inside out. Frequency and depth scale with your tier.
Compliance & Control
Cloud Steering Group sessions, Well-Architected assessments, policy updates, and compliance monitoring. We keep your cloud aligned with your business, not the other way around.
Landing Zone
Every tier includes a continuously maintained landing zone. The structural foundation your cloud runs on. Pre-configured multi-account environments with built-in governance, security, identity, logging, and networking. We build it, we run it, we keep it current.
Network Management
Your cloud environments need to talk to each other. And to your on-premises infrastructure. We handle the plumbing so your teams don't have to. From basic monitoring to full hybrid connectivity and firewall management.
Production Applications
We manage your application workloads so your teams can focus on building, not babysitting infrastructure. Coverage scales with your tier. From basic operational management to full strategic optimization.
Cloud Security Posture Management
Security isn't an add-on. It's baked into everything. At Advanced tier, you get foundational Cloud Security Posture Management. At other tiers, security expertise is available on a time & materials basis.
Buyer's Roadmap
Whether you're choosing your first managed cloud partner or switching from one that isn't working, here's what the journey looks like. No surprises.
Whether you're new to managed cloud or rethinking your current partner, this is where you figure out what matters.
Managed cloud isn't one thing. Understand the difference between basic monitoring, operational management, and full strategic partnership. Match the depth to your actual needs.
Do you have a landing zone? Governance policies? A clear picture of your environments? If not, that's fine. It just changes the onboarding scope.
Include your environment count, cloud providers, compliance requirements, and current pain points. Ask about CCoE cadence, escalation paths, landing zone approach, and how the provider handles multi-cloud.
Look beyond price. Ask about team continuity, response times, governance maturity, and how they handle the transition period. A cheap MSP that drops the ball in month two isn't cheap.
We do the foundation work up front, so operations run clean from day one.
We audit your current cloud setup. Accounts, subscriptions, networking, security posture, cost structure. Everything gets documented. No assumptions.
We deploy or adopt your landing zone with proper multi-account structure, identity management, security baselines, and policy enforcement. If you already have one, we assess and align it.
Alerting, dashboards, and incident routing configured for your environments. Connected to our 24/7 operations center. You'll know what's watched and how we respond.
Named team assigned. Runbooks created. Escalation paths defined. First CCoE meeting scheduled. You get a single point of contact from day one.
The service is live. Now it gets better every month. Continuous operations, proactive optimization, and a team that actually knows your environment.
24/7 monitoring, incident management, change management, and regular reporting. Your CCoE meetings keep everything aligned with business goals.
Monthly reviews of spend, right-sizing recommendations, commitment management. We don't just watch the meter. We turn things off that shouldn't be running.
Ongoing policy enforcement, compliance monitoring, and security posture management. Issues surface in your governance cadence, not as audit surprises.
When the operational foundation is solid, we help you modernize workloads. Containerization, serverless, platform engineering. Same team, same context.
Explore modernizationService Tiers
Four tiers. Same platform. The difference is how deep we go. From foundational monitoring to full strategic partnership with weekly engagement.
Foundational monitoring for teams that need visibility without full management.
Baseline operational coverage for teams getting started with managed cloud.
Expanded governance and hybrid connectivity for growing cloud operations.
Full strategic coverage. Security, governance automation, and weekly engagement.
Detailed Comparison
| Feature | Foundation | Essentials | Standard | Advanced |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud Center of Excellence | ||||
| CCoE meetings | — | Monthly | Bi-weekly | Weekly |
| Principal Cloud Architect | — | — | Included | Included |
| Service / Customer Success Manager | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Cloud Advisor + Operations Lead | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Transformation Lead + Data & AI Lead | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Architecture review & best-practice advisory* | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Strategic architecture decisions & design authority | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Customer roadmap ownership | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Technology–business strategy alignment | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Quarterly business review | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Annual customer satisfaction measurement | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Service reporting | — | Quarterly | Monthly | Monthly |
| Governance | ||||
| Cloud Steering Group | 2x/year | Quarterly | Monthly | Bi-weekly |
| Landing zone maintained + minor updates | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Cost monitoring & automated alerts | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Spotter FinOps tool | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Tagging, naming & cost-allocation governance | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Well-Architected alignment | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Monthly Cloud Governance review + status report | — | Included | Included | Included |
| FinOps / cost optimization reporting | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Customer-specific cost reporting | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Automated policy enforcement (as-code) | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Landing zone policy / design-principle changes* | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Foundation (Managed Landing Zone) | ||||
| Core controls: environment, security, identity, logging, compliance* | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Infrastructure as Code, version-controlled | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Environment lifecycle | T&M | Included | Included | Included |
| Centralized log aggregation & retention | Included | Included | Included | Included |
| Preventative + detective controls | T&M | T&M | Included | Included |
| Continuous compliance monitoring | T&M | T&M | Included | Included |
| Connectivity | ||||
| Network monitoring & alerting | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Virtual network design & monitoring | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Virtual network deployment & management* | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Secure hybrid connectivity (VPN)* | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Dedicated circuits (ExpressRoute / Direct Connect) | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Cloud firewall management* | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Advanced network troubleshooting* | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Monthly connectivity reports | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Workloads | ||||
| Monitoring, alerting & incident triage | T&M | Included | Included | Included |
| IaC provisioning + IAM/RBAC* | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Tagging standards & policy enforcement | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Version control & IaC artifact governance | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Automated backups | — | Included | Included | Included |
| Automated onboarding + config drift remediation | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Centralized logging + CI/CD pipelines | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Root cause analysis (P1/P2) + backup/DR docs | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Resource right-sizing & optimization | — | T&M | Included | Included |
| Compliance monitoring | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| GitOps, autoscaling & self-healing | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Distributed tracing & APM | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Security | ||||
| Foundational CSPM: posture monitoring & recommendations | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Alert triage & incident notification | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Critical/high vulnerability remediation (cloud) | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
| Monthly security reporting | — | T&M | T&M | Included |
T&M = available on time & materials basis.
* Included up to defined service limits; scope beyond the standard inclusion is delivered on a time & materials basis. Details in the service description.
Pricing
Select your tier, add your environments, and see an estimated monthly price. The calculator uses our standard pricing formula. Your actual quote may vary.
Estimate only. Final pricing confirmed during onboarding.
"Cloud expertise is not something we wanted to build entirely in-house. Through the ongoing Managed Cloud service, we gain continuous oversight and development without diverting focus from supporting our production and subsidiaries."
Juho Luukko
Head of ICT, Lappset
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