Cloud Application Development Services

Ekreative builds cloud applications from the ground up and modernizes existing software to run in a cloud environment. Our cloud application development services cover the full lifecycle: discovery, cloud architecture, engineering, integration, deployment, DevOps, and ongoing optimization. You get one delivery team instead of a chain of handoffs.

Cloud-native or just cloud-hosted? Here’s what’s really at stake

A cloud-native application assumes the cloud in its architecture: built that way, it ships faster, absorbs traffic spikes, and costs less to run. The same software parked on a cloud server rarely manages any of it.

01

Faster time to market

Automation and CI/CD pipelines turn every release into a routine event your team barely notices.

Without them, shipping an update means a manual build and someone staying late again.

02

Effortless scalability

Cloud computing adds capacity when demand climbs and takes it back when the peak passes.

Software moved over as-is usually hits a ceiling that only a rewrite can raise.

03

Higher reliability

Redundancy and failover keep the product answering requests while a zone recovers underneath it.

A single instance and a single database mean one bad afternoon takes everything offline.

04

Lower infrastructure overhead

Cloud infrastructure follows the usage you actually have, instead of hardware bought upfront.

Fixed capacity sized for the busiest day of the year is idle most days.

05

Stronger security

Encryption and access control follow cloud security best practices from the architecture stage onward.

Bolting security on after launch usually means living with the access model you already shipped.

06

Easier product evolution

Modular services and documented APIs keep the next integration small and scoped.

In a tangled codebase, adding one feature means touching parts nobody wants to open.

Our cloud app development services

  • Cloud consulting & architecture

    Business needs and workload assessment; cloud strategy and platform selection; architecture designed to scale, decisions made before any building starts

  • Custom cloud application development

    Cloud apps built from scratch; frontend, backend, databases, APIs; cloud infrastructure underneath; one build, no separate handoffs

  • Cloud migration

    Audit of current applications and data; migration with minimal disruption; modernization where it makes sense; no lift-and-shift of outdated patterns

  • Cloud infrastructure management

    Provisioning and configuration; monitoring and issue response, scaling as usage changes; cost efficiency over time

  • Cloud integration & API development

    Connections to internal systems; third-party platforms and services; secure API design and development; database and data flow integration

  • Cloud application security

    Access control for cloud applications; data protection and encryption; compliance configured for the cloud; ongoing security monitoring

Six cloud app development services offered by Ekreative.

Selected cloud application solutions

Ekreative has delivered 250+ digital products across healthcare, finance, retail, and SaaS. The work spans cloud platforms built from scratch, legacy systems re-architected for the cloud, and zero-downtime migrations. Each cloud solution starts from a different architecture problem, and results are measured in operational terms. The examples below are a selection from that work.

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Talk to us about the cloud application you want to build

Send us the shape of it: what you are building or modernizing, the application and infrastructure you run today, the users and workload you expect, and your preferred cloud provider if that decision is already made.

Pre-discovery is free. You get requirements, architecture, integrations, a timeline and an estimate — a wide range at this stage, and we will say so rather than pretend otherwise. No obligation, no long call.

$5-8k VALUE

Estimated value of senior engineering time included in every audit. Yours free, whether you hire us or not.

Built for the way your industry works

Cloud application development solutions get shaped by the data, the regulation, and the traffic behind them.

Healthcare

Patient platforms and clinical systems where access rules shape the architecture before anything else does.

E-commerce

Storefronts and checkouts that stay fast when a campaign pushes traffic far past normal.

Dental

Equipment catalogues and ordering platforms that stay fast when suppliers push a seasonal promotion.

Wellness

Mobile-first products with subscription billing and steep seasonal swings in active user numbers.

Finance

Transaction workflows and data-intensive platforms where every integration carries an audit requirement.

Insurance

Quoting and claims processing that integrate with carrier systems and established back-office platforms.

Manufacturing

Production tracking and operational dashboards fed by equipment that never stops sending data.

Utilities

Field and dispatch platforms that keep working when crews are offline and sync when they reconnect.

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The technologies we build with

Our cloud technologies span the application layer, infrastructure, databases, integrations, deployment tooling and cloud platforms — AWS (EC2, ECS, Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS/SNS, SES), Google Cloud, Vercel and Cloudflare, Supabase and Firebase, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI. That is where most of our work sits, not where it stops: whatever cloud provider your product runs on, we have almost certainly worked with it.

Why companies choose Ekreative for cloud application development

Picking a cloud application development company is mostly due diligence: who writes the code, how architecture decisions get made, and who is still around six months after launch. Here are our answers.

Cloud-native, not just cloud-hosted

We design architecture for the cloud from the start. Scalability, resilience, and deployment patterns get decided while they are still cheap to change, instead of being retrofitted once traffic exposes the gaps.

Built around the product

Architecture begins with your users, product goals, expected usage, business workflows, and growth plans. Technology choices come after those answers, so the product is never bent to fit a stack someone picked early.

Platform-fit architecture

We select cloud services and architecture according to the workload in front of us. A data-heavy platform and a high-transaction product need different building blocks, and we size each one accordingly.

DevOps from the start

Automated testing, deployment pipelines, environment consistency, monitoring, and operational readiness are built during development. By launch day the pipeline has already run hundreds of times, so releasing becomes routine rather than an event.

Ready to evolve

Modular architecture, APIs, structured data flows, and extensible infrastructure keep options open. Adding integrations, automation, analytics, or AI capabilities later stays a scoped piece of work instead of a second rebuild.

One partner, end-to-end

Strategy, UX/UI, software development, cloud architecture, QA, deployment, and support stay inside one development team. Handoffs drop, and nobody has to re-explain the product to a vendor who just joined.

How we develop cloud applications

Step 1

Discovery & cloud strategy

We map business requirements, users, application workloads, existing systems, integrations, security needs, and scaling expectations. Constraints surface here too, while changing direction still costs a conversation instead of a rebuild.

Step 2

Architecture & product design

The team defines cloud architecture, data structure, APIs, integrations, technology stack, and product experience before development begins. What gets decided in this step determines what the application can absorb two years later.

Step 3

Cloud application development

Our development process runs in iterative sprints. Frontend, backend, APIs, cloud services, infrastructure components, and integrations arrive as working increments you can open and use from the first weeks.

Step 4

Testing, security & deployment

The application goes through quality, performance, and security testing, then ships through reliable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. We cover the release end to end, so issues surface in staging instead of in production.

Step 5

Monitor, optimize & scale

After launch we handle monitoring, observability, performance optimization, infrastructure tuning, cloud cost review, and issue resolution. Feature development continues based on how people actually use the product, which planning never fully predicts.

What clients say after they’ve worked with us

From startups to enterprise teams — Ekreative helps companies ship better software faster, without sacrificing quality or reliability.

5.0

This was a good project for us...

Thomas Jones

Founder, Charlotte Street Capital

Whenever we want something done, they do it.

Jeff Loewenstein

Managing Director, LifeBank

Ekreative immerses themselves to become a good part of the team.

David Sloss

Manager, Medical Device Company

They’ve been reliable in executing their deliverables.

Benjamin Ranft

CPO, Cutnut

They’re just great people and add great value. I’ve been working with them for five years and will continue to do so.

John Fox

CEO, GigX

They really get 5 stars on everything—they’re a fabulous team to work with.

Christopher Holman

CMO, LifeBase

Their communication is very good, and they understand all the problems we face.

Philipp Linstedt

CEO, Software Company

The project was well-documented and they included screenshots in our emails. Overall, they were very professional.

Kevin Marzec

Head of Development, Triumph Research Intelligence

They delivered the product when they said they would, and they kept the deadline in mind the entire time.

Hal Brice

CEO, Virtual Global Agency

Working with them feels like working with one of my developers because of their investment in our success.

Jeri Novalany

Project Manager for Custom Web Dev, Torrch

They’re going beyond what we hired them for.

Max Sutter

CEO, Celebrate GmbH

They didn’t just develop our products because of the sake of doing so, they truly embraced them.

Trevor Evans

Founder, Stream Time

I can’t rave about them enough.

Chanel Gallen

General Manager, FarmGate Auctions

Working with them feels like working with one of my developers because of their investment in our success.

Mark Milstein

VP of Engineering, Nexben

They were available and responsive, even on weekends.

Sam Laakkonen

COO & Co-Founder, whatCharity

Their commitment to making sure the work is done correctly is impressive.

Jonathan Anderstrom

CEO, Web Design Company

They never overpromised nor did they ever underdeliver. They were realistic and trustworthy.

Torsten Stauch

CEO, AppShed

We can even trust them to talk to our clients directly…

Rob Sturgess-Durden

Managing Director
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Serhii Tsybrovskyi

A cloud-based application runs in the cloud; a cloud-native one is built for it. Under load the gap becomes obvious: each component of a cloud-native system scales on its own and recovers from failures automatically. A hosted application often needs re-architecting before it can do either.