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A growing knowledge base curated by AWS Cloud Architects — built for teams who are new to the cloud and want to learn, at their own pace.
Knowledge transfer at the heart of every engagement
At CloudZA, we believe in empowering our customers through knowledge. Our engagement process focuses on skills transfer, ensuring your team fully understands the cloud solutions we implement — so you can manage, optimise, and scale independently with full visibility into your infrastructure's potential.
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How South African businesses and organisations moved to the cloud — and what changed when they did.
Four Minute Medicine
AWS WAFR and FTR compliance achieved, security posture strengthened, automated failover minimising downtime.
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BizzCo
Eliminated on-premise constraints and load-shedding exposure, enabled scalability, reduced costs.
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Citrus Growers' Association
Faster reporting, right-sized costs, automated backups, and a planned serverless data lake with QuickSight.
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CFBS
30–40 year archival durability for sensitive documents, automated lifecycle policies, robust disaster recovery.
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First Trust
Cost savings achieved, SSL security implemented, performance improved, on-premise constraints eliminated.
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Knife Capital
Disjointed systems unified into Microsoft 365, licensing costs reduced, multiple points of failure eliminated.
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Oxfam South Africa
Custom dashboard with real-time tracking, mobile app for field ops, role-based access, automated CI/CD deployed.
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Prim-U
Cloud costs reduced, IAM controls strengthened, automated failover, dynamic scaling, admin overhead cut.
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RewardsCo
40% TCO reduction over 3 years, 100% call coverage, near real-time compliance scoring, manual QA eliminated.
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Stellenbosch Business School
2000+ students on 24/7 HA infrastructure, improved performance, CapEx to OpEx shift, POPIA compliance.
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Practical guides and deep-dives written by our AWS Cloud Architects — covering storage, compute, data, and infrastructure as code.
Amazon QuickSight – The Friend We Need?
Data-driven companies outperform traditional ones in almost every metric. Discover how QuickSight makes enterprise BI accessible — interactive dashboards, ML insights, no SQL required.
AWS Toolkit: Your Ultimate Companion for Visual Studio 2022!
Bring the AWS Console directly into your IDE. Deploy CloudFormation, debug Lambda, and manage EC2 — all without leaving Visual Studio.
Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Solution
You don't have to choose between cloud and on-premise. Hybrid Cloud lets you modernise incrementally, preserving existing investments while building toward Cloud-Native.
Moodle on AWS
Moodle powers 300 million users across 242 countries. CloudZA deploys scalable, highly available Moodle environments on AWS with load balancing, autoscaling, and IAM.
Storing Data with Amazon S3
S3 Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Glacier Instant, Glacier Deep Archive — matching the right storage class to your data access patterns is the key to controlling your bill.
Terraform Explained
Infrastructure-as-Code transforms how you build and manage cloud environments. With Terraform, you define, version, and reproduce your infrastructure through code.
Amazon Lightsail: A Better Way to Host Your Dockerised Applications
Lightsail vs EC2 for containers: cost predictability, operational simplicity, and production security — we break down which AWS compute fits your workload.
Terraform Structure: Infrastructure As Code Scalability
From monolithic files to reusable modules — a practical guide to organising your Terraform configuration for scalability and team collaboration.
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