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What managed cloud services include
After launch, someone has to watch the servers, apply security patches, check that backups restore and notice when the cloud bill creeps up. Managed cloud services make that someone a named team with a routine. The service belongs to our Cloud & DevOps family.
Included
- Monitoring and alerting for servers, databases, queues and sites
- Operating system, runtime and dependency patching
- Backup schedules, restore tests and disaster recovery planning
- Access control reviews and vulnerability scanning
- Cloud cost reviews and rightsizing recommendations
- Deployment support and environment changes
- Monthly operating reports
Not included
- Cloud provider bills and third-party licences
- Feature development (scoped as a project or team)
- Office IT, laptops and help-desk support
- Guaranteed uptime or response-time figures
- Hardware in your own data centre
This page covers the infrastructure operation service. How Netbase supports and maintains the software it delivers, from bug fixes to small enhancements, is on our managed operations and support page.
When to use it, and when another route fits
Managed cloud suits a platform that is live and needs steady, accountable care. It is the wrong starting point while the environment itself is still being designed.
Good fit
- A live SaaS product, store or portal with no one owning its servers
- Patches and backups happen when someone remembers
- The cloud bill grows faster than traffic
- Your developers spend release days fighting infrastructure
Another route fits better
- The environment is not built yet: start with a cloud and DevOps project
- You need round-the-clock on-site staff
- A single one-off migration with no ongoing care
- You already run a mature in-house operations team
Other routes, including build and migration projects, are listed in the services directory.
Outcomes and buyer jobs
Companies hire managed cloud services to:
Monitoring and alerts on the parts of the platform that earn money.
Security updates applied on a schedule, tested first on a non-production environment.
Backups that are restored in regular tests, not only taken.
Regular reviews of what runs, what it costs and what can be switched off or resized.
Infrastructure chores move to a team whose job they are.
Capability modules and deliverables
Inventory of accounts, environments, services, access and backups, with a risk list
Health checks, dashboards and alert routing for the services that matter
A patch calendar, change records and rollback notes
Backup policy, restore tests and a written disaster recovery plan
Access reviews, MFA on admin dashboards, vulnerability scans and follow-up fixes
Spend breakdown, idle-resource findings and rightsizing recommendations
A monthly operating report and a review call
A typical operating rhythm
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Continuous
Monitoring, with alerts triaged Monday to Saturday
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Weekly
Review of alerts, changes and open issues
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Monthly
Patch cycle, operating report and cost snapshot
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Quarterly
Restore test, access review and cost review with recommendations
The rhythm is agreed during onboarding and adjusted to your release pace and risk.
Delivery process, team, quality and security
Onboarding runs in four steps:
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Assess
We review the environment: accounts, services, access and backups.
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Stabilize
The urgent gaps are fixed first.
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Operate
The platform runs on the agreed rhythm.
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Improve
The rhythm and the environment get better quarter by quarter.
Governance follows the Netbase standard: weekly reviews, KPI dashboards, a dedicated account manager and project manager, and communication over Slack, Zoom and client dashboards. Operations run remote-first from Hanoi in English, with every change logged in a ticket you can see.
Security is built into the routine. Netbase applies secure code review and version control, TLS in transit and AES at rest, role-based access control, MFA for admin dashboards, vulnerability scanning and penetration testing, and disaster recovery planning. NDAs, DPAs and SLAs are available on request, and contributors work under NDA. We describe these as practices; we make no claim about control effectiveness beyond them.
How AI sharpens day-to-day operations
A live platform produces more signals than a person can read. AI helps the team read them; it never restarts a server, changes access or applies a patch on its own.
AI in our operating routine:
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Alert grouping and triage
Related alerts merged into one incident with the likely cause, so the on-duty engineer starts in the right place.
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Log and error summaries
Spikes in errors or slow requests explained in plain language in the weekly review.
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Anomaly detection
Unusual traffic, login patterns or resource use flagged before they become incidents.
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Cost anomaly and rightsizing hints
Idle or oversized resources surfaced for the monthly cost review.
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Draft incident reports
Timelines and follow-up actions drafted for the engineer to complete.
If your platform runs AI features: we monitor model API errors, latency and spend like any other dependency, and alert when usage or cost leaves its agreed range.
AI in this service
Where AI already runs in delivered work, and where it is offered as a growth capability.
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In delivered commerce work
Recommendation engine
Built for 4over4's online printing store, not for a cloud operations project.
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Available capability
AI-assisted monitoring, anomaly detection and cost reviews
Machine learning and generative AI that Netbase offers; not yet tied to a published cloud operations case.
Engagement models and commercial variables
Most Netbase projects are delivered on fixed-price contracts agreed after discovery. Operating a live environment is ongoing work, so managed cloud is usually a monthly engagement: on-demand support for a small, stable environment, or fully managed delivery when Netbase runs the platform end to end on a monthly retainer. Commercial terms can also be milestone-based for the onboarding phase. We do not publish rate cards.
What moves effort and cost: the number of environments and services, how often you release, data volume and retention, compliance obligations and how much change you expect each month. A solution review turns your environment into a proposal with a clear scope.
Technology as an implementation choice
Netbase works on AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and Cloudflare. We name them as providers we use; no certification or partner tier is claimed. The provider stays your choice, and we recommend that cloud accounts remain in your name with Netbase given role-based access, so you keep control if the engagement ends. The tools we pair with each provider, and why, are on our cloud and DevOps stack page.
Technologies we build with
Industry applications
Printing and packaging. Web-to-print platforms carry large artwork files, render print-ready output and see seasonal order peaks. Monitoring, storage housekeeping and cost reviews matter more here than on a brochure site.
SaaS products. A subscription product lives or dies on availability and cost per customer. Teams launching on our SaaS product accelerator can hand its operation to the same partner that built it.
Printing and packaging: online ordering, AI artwork checks and production handoff
Netbase helps print and packaging businesses move ordering, artwork approval and production handoff online, with AI where files go wrong, so customers configure, design, proof and pay in one flow and the press floor receives clean jobs. Six published print-commerce case studies and 50+ custom web-to-print platforms, across apparel, packaging, signage, promotional merchandise and B2B portals, back this page.
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Evidence: platforms Netbase runs
Netbase operates its own SaaS products in the cloud every day; no client managed-cloud metric is published yet, so the proof below is qualitative.
Printcart (Netbase Business Division). Printcart is the web-to-print and print-on-demand platform Netbase builds, hosts and operates. It turns online orders into print-ready files and routed fulfillment, and runs on merchants' own stores or as Shopify, Wix and WooCommerce apps. See the Printcart record.
Cloodo Workspace (Netbase Business Division). Cloodo is an AI-powered digital workplace for company profiles, services, projects and team collaboration, live at cloodo.com. Netbase engineers and runs it as a multi-tenant cloud product. See the Cloodo record.
More projects are in our work.
Buyer FAQ
Our team supports you Monday to Saturday, with Sunday off, and alerts are triaged on those days.
SLAs are agreed on request and written into the contract. We publish no standard response-time or uptime figures.
Yes. Onboarding starts with an assessment, so gaps are found and fixed before the routine begins.
AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean and Cloudflare.
We recommend they stay in your name. Netbase works through role-based access with MFA on admin dashboards.
Only read access to monitoring data, logs and cost reports, under the same role-based rules as engineers. Every action on the platform is taken by a named engineer.
You keep the accounts, runbooks and documentation. Handover is part of the engagement, not an extra.
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