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A growing knowledge base curated by AWS Cloud Architects — built for teams who are new to the cloud and want to learn, at their own pace.
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At CloudZA®, we believe in empowering our customers through knowledge. Our engagement process focuses on skills transfer, ensuring your team fully understands the cloud solutions we implement — so you can manage, optimise, and scale independently with full visibility into your infrastructure's potential.
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Practical guides and deep-dives written by our AWS Cloud Architects — covering storage, compute, data, and infrastructure as code.
Amazon QuickSight – The Friend We Need?
Data-driven companies outperform traditional ones in almost every metric. Discover how QuickSight makes enterprise BI accessible — interactive dashboards, ML insights, no SQL required.
AWS Toolkit: Your Ultimate Companion for Visual Studio 2022!
Bring the AWS Console directly into your IDE. Deploy CloudFormation, debug Lambda, and manage EC2 — all without leaving Visual Studio.
Benefits of a Hybrid Cloud Solution
You don't have to choose between cloud and on-premise. Hybrid Cloud lets you modernise incrementally, preserving existing investments while building toward Cloud-Native.
Moodle on AWS
Moodle powers 300 million users across 242 countries. CloudZA® deploys scalable, highly available Moodle environments on AWS with load balancing, autoscaling, and IAM.
Storing Data with Amazon S3
S3 Standard, Intelligent-Tiering, Glacier Instant, Glacier Deep Archive — matching the right storage class to your data access patterns is the key to controlling your bill.
Terraform Explained
Infrastructure-as-Code transforms how you build and manage cloud environments. With Terraform, you define, version, and reproduce your infrastructure through code.
Amazon Lightsail: A Better Way to Host Your Dockerised Applications
Lightsail vs EC2 for containers: cost predictability, operational simplicity, and production security — we break down which AWS compute fits your workload.
Terraform Structure: Infrastructure As Code Scalability
From monolithic files to reusable modules — a practical guide to organising your Terraform configuration for scalability and team collaboration.
Real workloads. Proven results.
How South African businesses and organisations moved to the cloud — and what changed when they did.
Four Minute Medicine
AWS WAFR and FTR compliance achieved, security posture strengthened, automated failover minimising downtime.
Read case study →Retail AnalyticsBDNav
ETL jobs eliminated, real-time insights delivered within minutes, architecture simplified and maintenance reduced.
Read case study →EducationBizzCo
Eliminated on-premise constraints and load-shedding exposure, enabled scalability, reduced costs.
Read case study →Agriculture / NPOCitrus Growers' Association
Faster reporting, right-sized costs, automated backups, and a planned serverless data lake with QuickSight.
Read case study →Financial ServicesCFBS
30–40 year archival durability for sensitive documents, automated lifecycle policies, robust disaster recovery.
Read case study →SaaS / TechnologyCtrl Technologies
Enhanced security, improved reliability with multi-AZ deployment, optimised resource allocation and monitoring.
Read case study →Financial ServicesFirst Trust
Cost savings achieved, SSL security implemented, performance improved, on-premise constraints eliminated.
Read case study →Venture CapitalKnife Capital
Disjointed systems unified into Microsoft 365, licensing costs reduced, multiple points of failure eliminated.
Read case study →HealthcareNetclinic
Manual data work automated, data quality improved, row-level security enforced, daily reporting automated.
Read case study →Social Justice / NPOOxfam South Africa
Custom dashboard with real-time tracking, mobile app for field ops, role-based access, automated CI/CD deployed.
Read case study →EdTech / SaaSPrim-U
Cloud costs reduced, IAM controls strengthened, automated failover, dynamic scaling, admin overhead cut.
Read case study →Contact CentreRewardsCo
40% TCO reduction over 3 years, 100% call coverage, near real-time compliance scoring, manual QA eliminated.
Read case study →Financial ServicesSA Home Loans
6-month projected ROI, 100% call coverage, regulatory-grade consistent scoring, reduced analyst overhead.
Read case study →Higher EducationStellenbosch Business School
2000+ students on 24/7 HA infrastructure, improved performance, CapEx to OpEx shift, POPIA compliance.
Read case study →FinTechYellow Africa
Manual data processing eliminated, unified analytics platform delivered, serverless pay-as-you-go model adopted.
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