Yours to keep
We deliver clean, documented Terraform your team can read, run, and extend long after we hand over the keys. No lock-in, by design.
Azure & DevOps Consulting · Canada
Your Azure cloud, automated and built to last.
We’re a Canadian Azure and DevOps team. We design and automate your cloud so deploys stop being scary and your bill stops being a surprise. Azure is our deepest specialty, and we work across other clouds too.
- Built on Microsoft Azure
- Cloud Adoption Framework
- Infrastructure as Code
- Proudly Canadian
Why Apollo
What you get working with us
Senior hands, start to finish
The people who design your platform are the ones who build it. No bait-and-switch to a junior bench after kickoff.
Progress you can see
We build from modules and automation we already trust, and we work in clear milestones, so working pieces land as we go instead of arriving in one big reveal at the end.
Costs you can see coming
We right-size, automate, and design cost visibility in from day one, so the bill stops catching you off guard.
Secure by design
Zero-trust networking, Azure Policy, and Defender are baked into every landing zone from the start, not bolted on after an audit.
Deploys nobody notices
We automate everything we build, so a deploy stops being an event you brace for and turns into something nobody even notices.
What we do
Every layer of your cloud, built as code
Landing zones, pipelines, networking, observability, and AI, delivered as tested, automated infrastructure your team can actually own.
Cloud Migration & Modernization
Move to Azure on a planned, low-risk path, with a landing zone and migration waves instead of a risky big-bang cutover.
- Azure landing zone foundation
- Assessment & migration waves
- Rehost, replatform or refactor
- Cutover with tested rollback
Infrastructure & DevOps Automation
One automation practice from Terraform to release: drift-free environments and deploys that stop being a big deal.
- Terraform & OpenTofu modules
- CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket)
- Automated tests, scans & rollback
- Azure Policy & self-service infra
Containers & AKS
Run production-grade Kubernetes on Azure that scales cleanly, without runaway costs or the pager going off.
- AKS cluster design & hardening
- Ingress, TLS & network policy
- Autoscaling & cost guardrails
- Azure Container Registry
Network & Security
Lock down your Azure network with zero-trust design that scales as you grow.
- Hub-spoke topologies
- Azure Firewall & WAF
- VPN & private connectivity
- Private Link & NSGs
Observability & FinOps
See exactly what’s happening in your cloud and pay only for what you actually use.
- Azure Monitor & Log Analytics
- KQL dashboards & alerts
- Cost visibility & right-sizing
- SRE practices
Data & AI Platforms
The Azure platform your data and AI workloads run on, deployed as code with networking, identity and cost controls already in place.
- Azure Databricks workspaces
- Azure OpenAI deployments
- Private networking & identity
- Cost & access governance
Fixed-price starters
A small first step, priced up front
Not every problem needs a project. These are packaged, fixed-scope engagements with a fixed price and a deliverable you keep.
Azure Health & Cost Review
A read-only review of one subscription: where the money leaks, where the risk sits, and the handful of fixes worth doing first.
One Azure subscription. Reader access only, nothing is changed. The free cloud review is the conversation; this is the written assessment behind it.
Azure Landing Zone Starter
An Azure foundation delivered as Terraform you own, so the next subscription follows a standard instead of a guess.
One landing zone: management group structure, one hub, up to two spokes.
Golden Pipeline Starter
One repository taken from manual deploys to a PR-driven pipeline with tests, scans and a rollback path, plus the template your other repos copy.
One repository and one environment path, in Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions or Bitbucket Pipelines.
Observability & Budget Baseline
Logs, dashboards, alerts and budgets wired up so you hear it from a dashboard instead of from a customer or an invoice.
One Azure subscription, up to twenty five monitored resources.
What we engineer for
The outcomes we design toward
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Target
Up to 40%
lower cloud spend after right-sizing & automation
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Target
80%
less manual deployment effort once pipelines are live
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Target
100%
Infrastructure as Code, documented and yours to keep
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Target
99.9%
platform uptime we design and operate toward
These are targets Apollo designs and measures toward on Azure engagements, not guaranteed or verified client results. Actual outcomes depend on where you start.
Recent work
What an engagement actually looks like
U.S. software company · Azure & AKS
From drifted and manual to a platform their team can trust
Where they started
Their Azure environment had grown faster than its automation. Production no longer matched the Terraform that was supposed to describe it: dozens of workloads ran outside code entirely, state locking was off, storage account keys sat in pipeline variables, and every change went through one 400-plus-line configuration nobody wanted to touch. There was no stable environment for customer demos.
What we did
- A fixed-scope infrastructure review against the Azure Well-Architected Framework: every finding written up in plain language with a severity, and every fix costed in hours, so the remediation roadmap was a business decision instead of a leap of faith.
- A greenfield staging platform built as modular Terraform: remote state with locking in Terraform Cloud, managed identity end to end so no secrets live in pipelines, multi-AZ autoscaling AKS, and Linux build agents with security scanning in CI.
- Everything delivered as documented code the client owns, with the legacy environment left untouched until cutover.
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8
findings surfaced in the review, each with a severity and plain-language write-up
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7
recommendations, every one costed in hours before any build work began
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0
secrets in pipelines on the new platform: managed identity end to end
Client identity withheld; details anonymized.
Who it’s for
Built for teams that can’t afford downtime
Healthcare
Secure, compliant platforms for teams handling patient data, with access controls and audit logging on by default.
Finance
Auditable, resilient infrastructure for teams where an outage means lost money and hard questions.
Manufacturing
Always-on systems for operations that cannot pause when a shift changes or a line is running.
Technology
Automated delivery for product teams that ship every day and cannot afford a slow, flaky pipeline.
How we work
A clear path from idea to production
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Discovery & assessment
We take the time to understand how your cloud runs today, talking with your team, reviewing the architecture, and finding where the real risks and costs sit. Everything that comes after is built on what we find here.
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Architecture & design
We design to Azure CAF and Well-Architected principles for scale, security, and cost, and walk you through every decision in plain language.
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Build & migrate
We deliver as Infrastructure as Code with zero-downtime migration strategies, so the lights stay on while we modernize underneath.
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Optimize & hand over
We tune cost and performance before we step back, then leave your team with full documentation and the confidence to run it themselves.
Good to know
Questions teams ask us
How much does a typical engagement cost?
Start with one of our fixed-price starters: a defined scope, a price you know before we begin, and a deliverable you keep. Larger work is quoted the same way, itemized and fixed-scope, after a free cloud review. If a smaller first step makes more sense than a big-bang project, we’ll say so.
How quickly will we see results?
Sooner than a big-bang project, because we deliberately keep the first deliverable small. Rather than quote a calendar before we’ve seen your environment, we agree a fixed scope and a fixed price up front, then work in milestones so something useful lands early instead of everything arriving in one reveal at the end. Our fixed-price starters exist for exactly this.
We already have an internal team. Can you work with them?
Absolutely, and we prefer it. We’re not here to replace your engineers; we pair with them, share our reasoning as we go, and leave behind documented Infrastructure as Code your team fully owns. The goal is to make your people more capable, not dependent on us.
How do you handle security and compliance?
We don’t bolt security on at the end. Every landing zone ships with zero-trust networking, Azure Policy guardrails, least-privilege access, and Defender on by default, built to the Azure Well-Architected and Cloud Adoption Frameworks. When an audit comes around, it’s a checklist, not a fire drill.
Will we be locked into working with Apollo?
No, and that’s by design. We deliver clean, documented Terraform and OpenTofu that you fully own, with a proper handover so your team can run and extend it without us. We’d rather earn your next project than trap you in this one.
We’re not a large enterprise. Is this right for us?
Yes, and smaller teams are often the best fit. Good cloud practice (automation, security, cost control) matters just as much for a growing team as a large one, and we right-size our approach to where you actually are.
We’re on AWS or Google Cloud. Can you still help?
Yes. Azure is our deepest specialty and it’s what our fixed-price starters are scoped to, but the way we work (Infrastructure as Code, automation, zero-trust security, cost control) carries across any cloud, and we’ve worked in AWS, Google Cloud and DigitalOcean as well. Tell us what you’re running and we’ll come back with a clear view of how we’d tackle it. You’ll always know exactly what you’re getting before you commit to anything.
Do we need to be in Canada to work with you?
Not at all. We’re proudly Canadian and love working with teams here, but we collaborate with organizations across North America remotely every day. Wherever you are, you get the same hands-on, senior attention.
How do we get started?
Send us a note through the contact form with a bit about where your cloud is today. We’ll reply within one business day with a free cloud review and a clear, costed next step. It’s a genuinely useful conversation, whether or not we end up working together.
Tell us what’s slowing you down. We’ll fix it.
Runaway cloud bills, slow and scary deploys, a migration you keep putting off, a platform that wakes you at 2am. Tell us your worst cloud or infrastructure headache and we’ll come back with a clear, costed way out.