Enterprise SaaS
Zero-downtime migration across 72 Azure subscriptions
- Azure subscriptions migrated
- 72
- Azure subscriptions migrated
- minutes of downtime
- 0
- minutes of downtime
- customer-impacting incidents
- 0
- customer-impacting incidents
Now booking Q3 2026 — 3 engagement slots per quarter
Your cloud is slowing you downand overcharging you.We fix both.
Northstack is a senior-only platform engineering agency for Azure and AWS. We build the internal platforms, DevSecOps pipelines and AI/ML infrastructure behind teams that migrated 72 subscriptions with zero downtime and ran live-site ops at a 2.6-minute time-to-acknowledge.
Fixed-scope · No obligation · Findings in 5 business days
northstack — platform audit
❯northstack aud
Built by engineers from the teams behind
Microsoft / GitHub platform teamsAzure DevOps live-site SREEnterprise Azure landing zonesAWS production platformsKubernetes at scale (AKS / EKS)Azure OpenAI & Bedrock
- Azure subscriptions migrated with zero downtime
- 0
Azure subscriptions migrated with zero downtime
- production incidents resolved on 24/7 live-site duty
- 0+
production incidents resolved on 24/7 live-site duty
- average time-to-acknowledge under strict SLAs
- 0.0 min
average time-to-acknowledge under strict SLAs
- platform improvements shipped, not just tickets closed
- 0+
platform improvements shipped, not just tickets closed
Real numbers from enterprise programs our engineers led. Client names under NDA — verifiable on request.
What we do
One agency for the whole platform lifecycle
From landing zone to LLM serving — every service delivered by senior engineers who have run these systems in production, at enterprise scale.
How we work
Three steps. No lock-in. No surprises.
Every engagement starts small and earns the next phase. You always know what happens next and what it costs.
Audit
5 business days · free
We review one area you choose — CI/CD, security posture, cloud costs or AI readiness — and deliver a written findings report with prioritized recommendations. No obligation; the report is yours either way.
Blueprint
1–2 weeks · fixed price
We turn the findings into an executable plan: target architecture, migration path, effort estimates and risk register. You can hand it to any team — including your own. Most clients hand it back to us.
Build & Run
Milestone or retainer
Senior engineers deliver the blueprint with PR-gated changes, weekly demos and metrics that prove impact. We finish by enabling your team to run it — dependency on us is a bug, not a feature.
Proof, not promises
Results our engineers have shipped
Enterprise programs, hard numbers, zero marketing math. Full case studies on the results page.
Cloud platform
24/7 live-site operations at 2.6-minute time-to-acknowledge
- incidents resolved
- 2,000+
- incidents resolved
- average time-to-acknowledge
- ~2.6 min
- average time-to-acknowledge
- platform improvements shipped
- 1,500+
- platform improvements shipped
Multi-national enterprise
GenAI platform on GPU-backed AKS with cost control built in
- idle GPU spend with scale-to-zero
- 0
- idle GPU spend with scale-to-zero
- agentic workloads in production
- RAG + MCP
- agentic workloads in production
- Azure OpenAI integration
- Guardrailed
- Azure OpenAI integration
Why teams pick us
Built to be the opposite of a body shop
Most consultancies optimize for billable hours. We optimize for the day you no longer need us.
US-timezone coverage
Guaranteed 4–6 hours of daily overlap with Eastern through Pacific. Standups, reviews and escalations happen in your business hours.
Security-first delivery
Every pipeline we build ships with guardrails: scanning, signing, least-privilege identity and policy-as-code. Audits stop being fire drills.
Fixed-scope, fixed-price entry
Audits and blueprints are priced upfront. You never sign an open-ended contract to find out whether we’re any good.
Senior engineers only
The people who scope the work do the work. No bait-and-switch to a bench of juniors — that model is why your last vendor failed.
Questions
Everything buyers ask before hiring us
Fixed-scope audits and blueprints have a fixed price, agreed upfront — no surprises. Build engagements run as monthly retainers or milestone-based projects depending on scope. You always know what a phase costs before it starts, and every engagement begins with a small, low-risk audit so you can evaluate us before committing.
Yes — we structure our day around US hours and guarantee at least 4–6 hours of daily overlap with Eastern through Pacific time. Standups, reviews and incident escalations happen in your business hours, not ours.
Absolutely. Most of our track record is under NDA already. We routinely work inside client tenants with client-issued identities, hardware policies and access controls — your security team sets the rules, we follow them.
Senior engineers only. The people who scope your engagement are the people who build it. We don’t sell you an architect and staff the project with juniors — that model is why your last consultancy engagement failed.
Both, with Azure as our deepest specialty. We have led enterprise programs on Azure (landing zones, AKS, Azure DevOps, Entra ID, Azure OpenAI) and delivered production AWS platforms (Terraform, ECS/EKS, Lambda, IAM). Multi-cloud and migration work is common for us.
A focused review of one area you choose — CI/CD, cloud security posture, cloud costs, or AI/ML platform readiness. You get a written findings report with prioritized, actionable recommendations within five business days. No obligation; the report is yours either way.
Audits typically start within one week. Build engagements depend on our current commitments — we deliberately take on a limited number of new engagements per quarter so every client gets senior attention. If timing is critical, tell us early.
Still have a question? Email a senior engineer directly.
Stop paying the “fragile platform” tax.
Get a free, fixed-scope platform audit — findings and a prioritized action plan in five business days. We take 3 new engagements per quarter; the audit reserves your spot.