Enterprise cloud, engineered by people who've built it at planet scale.
Cloud Recipe is a founder-led practice backed by a network of ex-FAANG senior engineers — Meta, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google — who spent years running systems for hundreds of millions of users, scaling in for large engagements. We bring that discipline to AWS architecture, government digital modernization, and enterprise applications — no experiments on your dime, only patterns proven at scale.
Proven recipes for enterprise cloud. Assess → Architect → Build → Operate
Three practices. One standard of engineering.
The problem each one solves, how we approach it, and what you are left with.
Cloud that's fast, secure, and doesn't bleed budget.
The problem. Most enterprises are part-way through a cloud journey that stalled: sprawling accounts, unclear costs, hand-built infrastructure nobody wants to touch, and Kubernetes clusters that scare the on-call rotation.
Our approach. We start with an architecture and cost assessment, then rebuild on proven patterns: a governed AWS landing zone, EKS platforms with sane defaults, everything expressed in Terraform, and DevSecOps pipelines that make the secure path the easy path.
- AWS migration planning and execution, including lift-improve-and-shift strategies
- Cost optimization: rightsizing, savings plans, and per-team cost accountability
- EKS / Kubernetes platform engineering with GitOps delivery
- Infrastructure as code standards, module libraries, and review workflows
- DevSecOps: supply-chain security, secrets management, policy as code
Outcomes. Predictable spend, reproducible environments, and a platform your own engineers can operate confidently.
Legacy systems, modernized without breaking the mission.
The problem. Agencies run critical services on aging platforms that are hard to secure, hard to staff, expensive to host, and inaccessible to many of the citizens they serve.
Our approach. Modernization as a controlled, phased operation — not a risky big-bang rewrite. The mission stays online the entire time.
- Legacy system assessment: architecture, data, dependencies, and risk
- Phased migration with zero downtime — parallel run, cutover, rollback plans
- Security compliance: NIST 800-53 controls, RMF alignment, Zero Trust architecture
- Accessibility remediation to Section 508 / WCAG 2.1 AA
- Cloud cost accountability with per-program visibility and reporting
Outcomes. A secure, accessible, cloud-native platform with a documented compliance posture and a sustainable cost profile. See the dedicated Government page →
Enterprise platforms built to be maintained, not just launched.
The problem. Business-critical applications too often ship as one-off projects: undocumented, untested, slow, and stranded the moment the original vendor moves on.
Our approach. We build web platforms, APIs, and integrations to an enterprise engineering standard — typed, tested, observable, and documented — and we integrate AI capabilities where they genuinely serve the mission, not as decoration.
- Enterprise web platforms with performance and accessibility built in
- API design, versioning, and integration with existing systems of record
- AI integration: retrieval, summarization, and workflow automation with guardrails
- Automated testing, CI/CD, and observability from day one
Outcomes. Software your team can extend and operate — with the docs, tests, and telemetry to prove it.
Every engagement follows the same tested method.
Great systems, like great recipes, aren't improvised. Ours has four steps.
- Assess Inventory the legacy estate: architecture, dependencies, security posture, cost, and accessibility gaps. Everything measured before anything moves.
- Architect Design the target platform from proven patterns — landing zones, network topology, identity, compliance controls — reviewed against NIST and Well-Architected standards.
- Build Ship in phases with infrastructure as code, automated pipelines, and zero-downtime cutovers. Every change reviewable, every environment reproducible.
- Operate Instrument, harden, and hand over: observability, runbooks, cost accountability, and the SRE practices to keep it healthy long after launch.
Not a name-drop. A different default.
FAANG is shorthand for five companies that run the world's largest consumer systems: Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Apple, Netflix, and Google. Engineers who've carried a pager there develop habits that are hard to learn anywhere else: SRE culture that treats reliability as a feature, security-first engineering baked into design rather than bolted on, and architectures that survive real scale and real failure. Our founder-led model brings those defaults to every engagement — with ex-FAANG network engineers scaling in for large contracts — whether the client is a Fortune 500 platform team or a state agency replacing a twenty-year-old portal.
- Error budgets and SLOs, not vague uptime promises
- Threat modeling before the first line of code
- Infrastructure that is reviewed, versioned, and reproducible
- Postmortems without blame, improvements without drama
Authorized to supply what your agency already runs.
Modernization rarely starts from scratch — it starts with the licenses, backup, and productivity stack already in place. We're an authorized partner for the platforms state and local agencies buy most, so the software and the engineering behind it can come from one contract instead of three.
Partner certificates and authorization IDs are available on request for solicitation packages.
Need a platform we're not listed for? We add authorizations as clients require them.
What clients say.
Verbatim feedback from clients of past engagements led by our founder.
Abdo’s expertise as a cloud engineer is unmatched. He successfully migrated our systems from an outdated dedicated server to AWS. Over the years he has helped us enhance our security, optimize our infrastructure efficiency, and implement robust CI pipelines. His technical knowledge is second to none, and his ability to tailor solutions to our needs has been transformative for our business. […] I’m already planning to work with Abdo again in the near future. I highly recommend him to any business seeking an exceptional cloud engineer.
We were very impressed with Abdo! He's very detail-oriented, great at communication and leadership, and delivered high-quality results.
Abdo is an absolute Gem. He helped us solve lots of problems regarding server management and was very helpful while building new servers. He is prompt and to the point in all communications and also helped us in building an issue management system. He even solved dev issues on the development side. Cant recommend him enough. A+++
GREAT EXPERIENCE — They are a reliable, consistent, hard-working contractor looking to understand and exceed the expectations of those who hire him. highly recommend all around talented and capable — great experience 10/10.
He immediately got to work on fixing our email issues in cPanel, and not only fixed them, but also got us set up with Google Workspace […] I can't think of anything he could have done better and would definitely hire him again
Abdo is a fantastic hire! He was very communicative and exceeded all my expectations!
Wow! that's all I can say.. Abdo Mansour is wonderful, honest and very fast... wow... I highly Recommend Abdo.. it's one of the best and the best of the best.
Abdo is efficient and effective and knows how to update old Wordpress sites and make sure it doesn't crash. His rates are very reasonable and his work is top quality. I recommend hiring him to help with web development backend needs.
Abdo was a super star! I interviewed him for a research project on software devs and he had some fantastic insights. Recommended!
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