News

Insights, Updates, and Stories from the CloudLife Team.

Award: Cloud X 2025
Cloud Life recieved the CloudX Award in the “Cloud Consulting” category from CloudX (DevNetwork). The CloudX Awards recognize the top companies, products, and services across categories including consulting, architecture, infrastructure, security, and more. This recognition underscores our commitment to helping clients navigate complex cloud strategies, adopt emerging technologies, and deliver scalable, efficient cloud solutions.
Need to onboard global talent without shipping a single laptop? We’re excited to share that Cloud Life Consulting has officially earned the AWS Digital Workplace Competency! This recognition reflects our deep expertise in helping teams simplify remote work, boost productivity, and scale with speed, whether you're a startup or a global enterprise.
We’re proud to announce that Cloud Life has earned Advanced Tier Services status with Amazon Web Services (A designation reserved for partners with proven technical expertise, deep AWS-certified staff, and demonstrated success with customer engagements.)
Ryan Ryke was interviewed in InfoWorld on the future of DevOps and infrastructure automation. In the article, Ryan shares how Cloud Life is adopting System Initiative to simplify cloud operations, reduce the pain of traditional Infrastructure as Code tools, and better serve clients. He highlights both the opportunities and challenges of this new paradigm, offering a grounded perspective from the front lines of cloud consulting.
Podcast: Ardan Labs
Bill Kennedy interviews Ryan Ryke, founder of CloudLife Consulting, to talk about the wild world of AWS billing, taming cloud storage, and why services like Cloud Run and Fargate are changing the game.
Article: Business Wire
Cloud Life Consulting Press Release on Partnership with System Initiative
We’re thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Vantage, integrating their leading cost-visibility and optimization platform into Cloud Life’s managed services. Together, we’ll help startups, SMBs, and portfolio companies detect hidden cloud costs, prevent cost creep, and tightly align their infrastructure spend to business performance.