Cloud & DevOps Company in Denver

Whether GovCloud is in scope reshapes a Denver cloud programme end to end. A scoped cloud migration discovery (current state assessment, target architecture, NIST 800-171 or CPA gap analysis) is a four to six week engagement. A Terraform-first AWS or Azure landing zone build adds multi-account separation, CI/CD pipelines, and Datadog observability, and prices differently depending on whether GovCloud is in scope. Full lift-and-shift or refactor migrations of a legacy stack include parallel running and DR validation. Denver sits slightly above Salt Lake City and Phoenix because of the aerospace cleared-talent premium, and meaningfully below Bay Area rates. We deliver fixed-fee statements of work rather than open T and M, and our engineers operate from Edmonton and Chandigarh on Mountain Time-friendly hours.

Yes. We deliver AWS GovCloud (US-West) and Azure Government landing zones designed to meet ITAR export-control requirements and NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 controls, with the System Security Plan, Plan of Action and Milestones, and incident response procedures Lockheed Space, Ball Aerospace, ULA, and Sierra Space typically require from subcontractors handling Controlled Unclassified Information. We scope CMMC 2.0 Level 2 readiness reviews against current assessment objectives, including the boundary diagram and asset inventory DCMA DIBCAC examines. Our engineers hold US-person status where contracts require it, and we coordinate with your facility security officer on personnel clearance flow-down. We do not perform formal C3PAO assessments, but we prepare the evidence package an assessor will examine.

AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have not yet opened a hyperscale region inside Colorado. The closest options are AWS us-east-2 (Ohio, ~25-35ms RTT from Denver), us-west-1 (Northern California, ~35-45ms), GCP us-central1 (Iowa, ~25-30ms), and Azure West US 3 (Phoenix, ~20-25ms). For latency-sensitive workloads we deploy AWS Local Zones in Denver where available, use CloudFront and Fastly edges out of CoreSite DE1 and 910 15th Street, and place Redis or DynamoDB Accelerator caches close to user sessions. Zayo's Denver-headquartered fiber backbone gives competitive private interconnect pricing into Equinix DA8 and CoreSite, and many Front Range enterprises hybrid into local CoreSite or H5 cages for compute that genuinely cannot tolerate cross-region latency.

The Colorado Privacy Act took effect July 1, 2023 and applies to controllers processing personal data of 100,000+ Colorado residents annually or 25,000+ where data sale is involved. The CPA grants Colorado residents rights to access, correction, deletion, portability, and opt-out of targeted advertising, sale, and profiling. Our cloud architecture deliverables include a controller-processor record (CPA mirrors GDPR Article 30), a Data Protection Assessment template for high-risk processing, a Universal Opt-Out Mechanism implementation aligned with the Colorado AG's recognised list, and audit logging in CloudTrail or Azure Monitor that survives a Colorado Attorney General inquiry. CPA enforcement sits with the AG, with no private right of action but penalties up to $20,000 per violation.

Yes. We have built dispensary POS, METRC integration, compliance reporting, and analytics infrastructure for Colorado cannabis operators since shortly after the 2014 legal launch. Cloud-side, AWS and GCP both permit cannabis workloads under their standard acceptable use policies for state-legal businesses. The harder problem is payments. Visa and Mastercard rails remain off-limits, so most operators run cashless ATM (CAT) workarounds, PIN debit through compliant processors, or pure cash, which forces specific PCI-DSS scoping decisions. We design tokenisation boundaries, MED reporting pipelines into Colorado Marijuana Enforcement Division formats, and seed-to-sale integrations with METRC that pass a state audit. We avoid Google Workspace for sensitive operator data because of historical account suspension patterns.

Denver's actual physical risk profile is more about wildfire smoke (affecting on-prem cooling intake and air quality in carrier hotels) and severe hail than catastrophic regional outage, but the absence of a Colorado hyperscale region means cross-region DR is mandatory anyway. We typically design active-passive across AWS us-east-2 (Ohio) and us-west-2 (Oregon), with RTO targets of 30-60 minutes for tier-1 workloads using Aurora global databases and DynamoDB global tables. For aerospace clients restricted to GovCloud, we run active-passive between GovCloud us-west and us-east. Backups live in S3 with Object Lock and cross-region replication, runbooks are tested quarterly via gameday exercises, and observability mirrors into the standby region so the on-call rotation can verify a failover before traffic cuts over.

A small SaaS or web stack lift-and-shift onto AWS or Azure runs 8-14 weeks including landing zone, CI/CD, observability, and parallel-running validation. A mid-sized enterprise migration with 30-80 workloads, identity federation, and a documented refactor of two or three critical apps takes 5-9 months. Aerospace and defense GovCloud migrations are slower because of cleared-personnel coordination, NIST 800-171 evidence build-out, and DCMA scheduling, typically 7-14 months including the CMMC 2.0 readiness review. We give a fixed-fee statement of work for each phase rather than an open-ended hourly engagement, and we ship working infrastructure every two-week sprint instead of holding everything for a single big-bang cutover.

We prepare FedRAMP Moderate and Low readiness packages, including the System Security Plan, Information System Contingency Plan, Incident Response Plan, and the 325 control implementation summaries the FedRAMP PMO and the sponsoring agency review. We architect on AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or GCP Assured Workloads to meet boundary requirements, integrate with FedRAMP-authorised continuous monitoring tooling, and coordinate with your 3PAO during the security assessment. We do not act as the 3PAO ourselves. Most Denver founders chasing FedRAMP do so through an agency sponsorship route rather than the JAB, which is faster but ties the timeline to a single federal customer's procurement cycle. Realistic end-to-end FedRAMP Moderate authorisation runs 12-24 months from first design to ATO.