Infrastructure Chosen for the Job It Has to Do
Azure, AWS, or a mix of both, designed and managed to match your workloads, with uptime and budget both accounted for.
The Challenges You Face
Where Cloud Infrastructure Quietly Costs Businesses More Than It Should
Cloud hosting rarely fails outright. It just slowly becomes more expensive, less reliable, or harder to trust than anyone realises until one of these shows up.
Paying for Capacity Nobody’s Using
Servers and storage get provisioned for peak demand and left running at that size permanently, so businesses pay around the clock for headroom they only need occasionally.
The Wrong Platform for the Workload
Azure and AWS aren’t interchangeable, and a lot of businesses end up on whichever one someone happened to set up first, rather than the one that suits their workload.
Disaster Recovery That’s Never Been Tested
Backups exist somewhere in the cloud, but nobody’s confirmed how long a full recovery would take or whether it would even work until it’s needed for real.
Costs That Are Hard to Predict Month to Month
Cloud bills fluctuate with usage in ways that are hard to forecast, and without anyone monitoring spend closely, small inefficiencies add up into a much larger bill over time.
Why Outbound
Why Businesses Trust Outbound With Their Infrastructure
Cloud hosting only holds up if it’s built for the right platform and watched afterwards. Here’s what changes once we’re managing yours.
Genuinely Platform-Agnostic on Azure and AWS
We’re not tied to Microsoft or Amazon, so the platform we recommend, Azure, AWS, or a combination, is chosen because it fits your workload.
Sized to What You Run
Server and storage capacity is based on your real usage patterns, not a worst-case estimate that leaves you paying for headroom every month.
Disaster Recovery You Can Rely On
Recovery plans are tested on a regular schedule, not just documented and left on a shelf, so you know how long a recovery would take before you’re relying on it.
Transparent Pricing on Every Platform
No hidden markup on Azure, AWS, or the management wrapped around either. What’s quoted is what’s billed, however your spend fluctuates month to month.
Ongoing Cost Monitoring
Cloud spend is reviewed regularly, not just at renewal, so inefficient or forgotten resources get flagged and removed before they’ve added up unnoticed.
One Team Managing Infrastructure and Everything Above It
The same team designing your hosting also manages your Microsoft 365 environment and your day-to-day security, so infrastructure decisions get made with the rest of your stack in mind.
“We’ve had an excellent experience working with Outbound.
Their team is knowledgeable, responsive, and genuinely easy to deal with. They’ve helped us stay secure and stable day-to-day, while also making practical recommendations that have improved performance and reduced disruptions.
Communication is clear, issues are handled quickly, and we feel well supported without being oversold.
Highly recommended for any business looking for a reliable IT partner.”
Our Offering
The Work Behind Reliable Cloud Infrastructure
Hosting is an ongoing job we take on, covering everything from platform choice through to what happens if something goes wrong.
Platform Assessment and Selection
A review of your workloads to determine whether Azure, AWS, or a mix of both is the right fit, based on performance and cost alongside what you’re already using.
Migration Planning and Execution
Servers and data moved from on-premises hardware or another cloud provider on a schedule built around your business, tested before anything goes live.
Right-Sizing and Cost Optimisation
Ongoing reviews of what you’re provisioned for against what you actually use, adjusting capacity so you’re not paying for resources sitting idle.
Disaster Recovery and Backup Configuration
Backup and recovery are set up and tested on a regular schedule, so a real incident doesn’t become the first time anyone’s checked whether recovery works.
Ongoing Monitoring and Management
Infrastructure monitored for performance and security around the clock, with issues flagged and resolved before they affect your business.
Frequently Asked Questions
What businesses usually ask before moving their infrastructure over to us.
How do you decide between Azure and AWS for our business?
We look at your existing tools and workloads before recommending either platform or a mix of both where that genuinely makes more sense than picking just one.
Can you migrate us from on-premises servers or only between cloud platforms?
Both, we handle migrations from physical servers into the cloud as well as moving workloads between cloud platforms, planned and tested so nothing gets lost along the way.
How quickly could we recover if something went badly wrong?
That depends on what’s been agreed and tested for your setup, which is exactly why we test recovery plans regularly rather than leaving that answer unknown until it’s needed.
Will our cloud costs go up over time, or could they come down?
Either is possible. Costs often come down once idle capacity is identified, though they can rise if your business genuinely needs more. Either way, you’ll see why the figure’s changed rather than being left to guess.
A Conversation
Before a Contract
Book a free consultation to talk through where your business is today, where you want to take it, and how the right technology partner could help you get there.