RealAd is an infrastructure consulting firm based in Spain, targeting startups and scaling companies. Rather than positioning itself as a SaaS tool, it acts as an "external partner of senior infrastructure architects." Its target clients are Series A–C teams of 20–150 people running production workloads on AWS or Kubernetes. Common scenarios include DevOps departures, system instability, and enterprise clients requiring compliance certifications like SOC2/NIS2.
Its services are divided into three categories: Infrastructure Rescue & Stabilization, Compliance Acceleration, and Ongoing Infrastructure Partnership. The first begins with a 1–2 week audit covering topology, performance, security, and cost, followed by fixing critical issues within 2–4 weeks; the compliance focus emphasizes implementing real technical controls—including access management, encryption, monitoring, audit logs, vulnerability scanning, and evidence automation—rather than just delivering paperwork; the long-term partnership provides architecture reviews, patch maintenance, cost optimization, incident response, and quarterly evaluations.
The public tech stack is quite comprehensive: cloud platforms include AWS, DigitalOcean, and Azure; container-wise, it covers Kubernetes, EKS, DOKS, ECS Fargate, and Docker; IaC includes Terraform, Terragrunt, OpenTofu, and Pulumi; monitoring and CI/CD cover Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger, CloudWatch, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and ArgoCD. Supported languages include Go, TypeScript, Python, Java, HCL, and Bash. For compliance platforms, it supports integrations with Vanta, Drata, and Secureframe.
Infrastructure assessments start at €3,000, and compliance gap assessments start at €3,500. Long-term partnerships follow an initial 3-month commitment with monthly renewals, though specific monthly fees are not disclosed. Its advantage lies in clear deliverables: written reports, priority matrices, remediation roadmaps, implemented changes, knowledge transfer, monthly reports, and quarterly reviews.
The main advantage is that senior personnel handle the work directly, making it suitable for teams with complex production environments that lack in-house senior SRE/DevOps. It is especially ideal for AWS/Kubernetes, FinTech, HealthTech, SaaS, AI/ML, and VoIP scenarios. The limitations are also apparent: it is not self-service deployable software, and there is no API/SDK information available; long-term costs and service capacity are opaque; and the CET time zone may not be friendly for real-time communication with Chinese teams.
The accessibility of the website and services in China, as well as payment methods, are undisclosed and thus evaluated as unknown. If Chinese teams require similar capabilities, they can compare options like cloud provider professional services, local MSPs, DevOps consulting firms, or building their own SRE/platform engineering teams.
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