Cumulus
Architecture & landing zones
The big, solid shapes. Multi-account AWS foundations with Control Tower, Organizations and Landing Zone Accelerator, in commercial and GovCloud regions.
Stratus
Security & compliance
The steady layer over everything. NIST 800-53 and CSF controls, FedRAMP-ready baselines, ATO evidence as code, encryption and least-privilege identity.
Cirrus
Serverless & events
High, light and fast. Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge and DynamoDB. Systems that cost nothing when they're quiet and scale when they're busy.
Altocumulus
DevOps & delivery
Patterns in rows. CloudFormation, CDK and self-updating pipelines, plus blue/green and container releases that are dull in the best way.
Nimbus
Data & analytics
The clouds that bring the rain. Data lakes on S3, Glue and Athena, Aurora and SQL Server migrations, and history kept for years at low cost.
Valley mist
Observability & operations
The mist that shows the shape of the land. CloudWatch, dashboards, failover drills and patching on a schedule, so nothing surprises you at 2 a.m.