Cloud Platforms Infrastructure as Code Containers & Orchestration Observability & Monitoring CDN & Networking FinOps & Cost Management

DashMindsIQ is platform-agnostic across the three major cloud providers, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. We select the platform and services based on your specific workload requirements, existing investments, and compliance constraints rather than preferred-provider relationships. Our infrastructure practice is built on infrastructure-as-code and GitOps principles: every environment is reproducible, every change is tracked, and production is never manually configured.

Focus 01

Cloud Platforms

We run production workloads across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, using each provider's container and serverless services, ECS/EKS/Fargate, GKE/Cloud Run, and AKS/Container Apps, where they fit best. Lambda, Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions handle event-driven and serverless workloads across all three.

Technologies we use
Amazon Web Services (AWS) Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Microsoft Azure AWS ECS / EKS / Fargate Google GKE / Cloud Run Azure AKS / Container Apps AWS Lambda / Serverless Google Cloud Functions Azure Functions
Focus 02

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform is our default for provisioning cloud resources across all three major providers, with Pulumi or AWS CDK used where a team prefers infrastructure defined in a general-purpose programming language. Ansible and Helm handle configuration management and Kubernetes packaging, and Crossplane or OpenTofu come in for more advanced multi-cloud or open-source requirements.

Technologies we use
Terraform Pulumi AWS CDK Ansible Helm (Kubernetes packaging) Kustomize Crossplane OpenTofu Terragrunt
Focus 03

Containers & Orchestration

Docker and Kubernetes are the standard for containerised workloads, and we deploy with ArgoCD or Flux CD so that every change is GitOps-driven and automatically reconciled against a version-controlled source of truth. Istio, Linkerd, and Envoy Proxy come in for service mesh requirements once a system's internal traffic patterns get complex enough to need one.

Technologies we use
Docker Kubernetes Podman Helm ArgoCD (GitOps) Flux CD Istio (service mesh) Linkerd Envoy Proxy
Focus 04

Observability & Monitoring

Prometheus and Grafana form the core of most monitoring stacks we build, and OpenTelemetry gives us a standardised way to instrument tracing, metrics, and logs across every service regardless of language. For clients who prefer a managed observability platform, we work with Datadog, New Relic, or Dynatrace, and Jaeger handles distributed tracing where deep request-level visibility is the priority.

Technologies we use
Prometheus Grafana OpenTelemetry Datadog New Relic Dynatrace AWS CloudWatch Google Cloud Monitoring Jaeger (distributed tracing)
Focus 05

CDN & Networking

Cloudflare is our default for CDN, WAF, and Zero Trust network access, giving clients DDoS protection and edge performance without a heavy operational lift. AWS CloudFront and Fastly cover cases where a client's infrastructure is already deeply committed to a specific provider, and Tailscale handles secure remote access for distributed teams.

Technologies we use
Cloudflare (CDN, WAF, Zero Trust) AWS CloudFront Fastly AWS Route 53 Nginx Traefik Tailscale (VPN) AWS VPC / Transit Gateway Akamai
Focus 06

FinOps & Cost Management

Infracost runs in CI pipelines so engineers see the cost impact of infrastructure changes before they merge, and Kubecost gives ongoing visibility into Kubernetes spending specifically. We pair these with each cloud provider's native tools, AWS Cost Explorer, Google Cloud Billing, and Azure Cost Management, to keep resource tagging and rightsizing recommendations grounded in actual usage.

Technologies we use
AWS Cost Explorer / Budgets Google Cloud Billing Azure Cost Management Infracost CloudHealth Kubecost CAST AI (Kubernetes cost optimisation) Spot.io Spot by NetApp
What this stack enables

Infrastructure that scales predictably and costs proportionately.

Infrastructure as code, non-negotiable.

Every resource defined in Terraform, every change peer-reviewed, production never touched manually.

Reproducible environments, automatic drift detection.

Audit trails for every infrastructure change, staging and production kept in sync by design, not by discipline.

Cost as a design constraint, not a monthly surprise.

Resource tagging, rightsizing, and usage-based commitments built in from the first deployment.

What we use this for
01

Terraform

For all cloud resource provisioning, reproducible, version-controlled, peer-reviewed infrastructure

02

Kubernetes and ArgoCD

For container orchestration with GitOps deployment workflows and automated rollback capability

03

OpenTelemetry

For standardised distributed tracing, metrics, and logging across all services

04

Cloudflare

For CDN, DDoS protection, WAF, and Zero Trust network access

05

Multi-cloud architecture

AWS, GCP, and Azure, selected by workload and compliance requirement rather than by default

06

FinOps tooling

Infracost in CI pipelines, Kubecost for Kubernetes cost visibility, and cloud-native budgeting alerts

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