We look at compute performance, storage pricing, egress costs, managed service quality, SLAs, and regional availability. Our data comes from real deployments and Net Promoter Scores through our distributor network, not just vendor-published benchmarks.

It means BitSherpa does not represent any single cloud provider and does not resell anyone's platform. On the provider side, compensation comes from the provider you select, on the same terms across all 95 evaluated, which is precisely why the evaluation can be neutral: there is no shortlist that pays better than another. Compensation also continues only while you stay, so a bad-fit placement costs more than it earns. Cloud advisory covers the full market including AWS, Azure, GCP, colocation and private cloud.

We design multi-cloud and hybrid strategies that keep your workloads portable between providers. That means choosing containerization where it fits, avoiding unnecessary ties to provider-specific services, and negotiating contract terms that leave room for future changes.

Yes. We handle migration advisory from start to finish: workload assessment, provider selection, architecture design, migration sequencing, and execution oversight. The goal is getting migrations done on schedule, within budget, and with as little disruption as possible.

Both, and mid-market is where this tends to matter most. Enterprise organizations usually have an architecture function and existing agreements that narrow the field before anyone starts. Mid-market teams are making the same decisions with a fraction of the staff, against the same vendors, with less leverage on price. That is the gap an independent advisor actually closes: not knowing more about AWS than you do, but knowing what 95 providers charge and which ones will negotiate.

Private and hybrid come up whenever data residency, predictable cost, or regulatory constraint makes public cloud awkward. The evaluation looks at where workloads actually need to sit, what egress costs look like at your volumes, whether your team can operate the thing once it is built, and how hard it would be to move again later. Plenty of private cloud decisions are really colocation decisions with a different name on the invoice.

Colocation is your hardware in someone else's building, with their power, cooling and connectivity. IaaS is their hardware, rented, with you managing everything from the operating system upward. PaaS goes further and manages the runtime too, so you deploy code rather than servers. The practical difference is where responsibility stops. Cost comparisons across the three are misleading unless you price the staff time each one assumes you have.

Yes, and it is a different problem from enterprise IT. A software company picking infrastructure is choosing the economics of its own product: egress and storage pricing show up directly in gross margin, and commitments made early are painful to unwind once customers are on the platform. The evaluation weighs unit economics at projected scale, regional coverage your customers will ask about, and how credits and committed-spend agreements actually behave when growth is uneven.