Should we use AWS, Azure, or GCP for our startup?
There is no single right answer. Miracuves recommends AWS for the broadest service coverage and ecosystem maturity, Azure for Microsoft-centric enterprises that depend on Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) and Microsoft 365, and Google Cloud for data-heavy and AI/ML workloads. We help you choose based on your actual requirements, not our preference. Multi-cloud pays off when a requirement calls for it; for most startups, one provider done well costs less to run than two done halfway.
How much does cloud engineering cost at Miracuves?
Cloud architecture design - the landing zone, network, identity and Terraform foundation - starts from $3,699 and takes 4-8 weeks, at a fixed price once scoped. A custom cloud build or migration typically costs $8,000-$25,000 over 2-8 weeks; where it lands depends on the number of environments and accounts, the workloads and data you move, the providers and regions in scope, compliance requirements and how much already exists as code, and larger scopes are quoted in writing before work starts. Managed infrastructure on a retainer starts from $2,299/month. If a catalogue product fits, the ready-made platform starts from $2,199 and ships in 6 days. Your AWS, Azure or Google Cloud bill is paid to the provider and is separate from our fee. Every quote is written before payment, with no surprise invoices after kickoff.
Does Miracuves deliver full infrastructure ownership?
Yes - completely. The cloud accounts, subscriptions and billing are in your name from day one, and Miracuves works inside them through roles you grant and can revoke. You receive the full Terraform codebase, Helm charts, CI/CD pipeline configurations, monitoring dashboards and admin access to everything. Managed services you use, such as a managed database, remain the cloud provider's services under its terms. Zero lock-in to Miracuves tools or processes: your team or any other cloud engineering partner can continue the work immediately after handoff.
How fast can a cloud migration realistically be completed?
A scoped migration for a typical mid-size application stack - covering cloud account setup, networking, compute, data migration, and CI/CD - takes 2-8 weeks depending on complexity; larger estates are split into waves and quoted in writing before work starts. Lift-and-shift migrations are fastest; replatforming or refactoring takes longer. All timelines are stated in writing before any payment is requested.
Cloud vs on-premises - which does Miracuves recommend?
For most companies, cloud infrastructure delivers better scalability, lower upfront cost, and faster time-to-market. Miracuves recommends on-premises or hybrid honestly when your industry has strict data residency requirements, latency-sensitive workloads that cannot tolerate network overhead, or legacy systems that would cost more to migrate than to maintain.
What is included in managed cloud infrastructure support?
Monitoring, alerting and budget alarms that run around the clock on your accounts, with the assigned Miracuves team responding in its working hours (first response under 2 hours, Mon-Sat 10:00-19:00 IST); monthly cost reviews, security patching, backup and restore testing, and quarterly architecture reviews. It runs on a monthly retainer from $2,299 with a dedicated Miracuves cloud engineering team assigned to your account. Miracuves is not a 24/7 help desk: if you need a staffed round-the-clock operations desk, a managed service provider fits better, and we will say so before you sign.
Does Miracuves handle cloud security and compliance?
Yes, as part of every engagement. Miracuves implements guardrails in code - Service Control Policies on AWS, Azure Policy or Google Cloud organization policies - plus network segmentation with private subnets and security groups, encryption at rest and in transit, secrets management with Vault or the provider's secrets manager, and automated compliance scanning. We build to SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA or GDPR requirements; audits and attestations belong to your organization.
What happens after cloud infrastructure is deployed?
Each cloud delivery comes with 60 days of post-deployment support, during which problems within the delivered scope - a failing pipeline, a misfiring alert, an autoscaling rule that needs tuning - are fixed at no extra cost. After that, managed infrastructure, new environments and scaling work continue on a monthly retainer at published rates.
How does Miracuves handle NDA and confidentiality?
A bilateral NDA is signed before you share any project details, and it covers your technical architecture, business logic, network layout and infrastructure configuration. The IP assignment agreement, confirming that 100% ownership of what we build transfers to you, is signed at project start - not at the end.
Do you provide end-to-end cloud application services?
Yes. Miracuves can build the application and the cloud it runs on as one engagement: the backend, the web and mobile apps, the infrastructure in Terraform, the CI/CD pipeline and the monitoring, handed over together in accounts that are yours. If a catalogue product already covers the application, the ready-made platform goes live in 6 working days and the cloud work is scoped around it. A custom application with its infrastructure is quoted in writing, typically 2-8 weeks, with larger scopes phased.
Can Miracuves work within an enterprise's existing cloud governance?
Yes. For enterprise cloud engineering we work inside the structure you already have - your AWS Organizations, Azure management groups or Google Cloud folders, your single sign-on, your tagging and naming standards and your change-approval process. Our engineers use named, least-privilege roles you grant, every change arrives as a reviewed pull request with its plan output, and nothing is changed by hand in production. Security reviews, audits and attestations stay with your organization; we build to the controls they check.
Can you take over cloud infrastructure that was built by hand?
Yes, and it is a common starting point. We begin with a written audit of the accounts - what is running, what it costs, who has access, what is exposed publicly and what has no backup. Existing resources are then brought under Terraform with import blocks instead of being rebuilt, so production keeps running while it moves into code, and drift checks in the pipeline flag any later change made by hand. The audit and the import work are quoted in stages before any payment.