Galaxy IT Solutions designs, deploys, and manages enterprise-grade cloud environments on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. Our certified architects handle the full lifecycle — from initial design through migration, hardening, monitoring, and ongoing cost optimization — so your team can focus on the business, not the infrastructure.
The big three cloud providers offer thousands of services and 200+ pricing dimensions. Most IT teams underestimate the complexity — and the cost. 80% of organizations exceed their cloud budgets, and 32% of cloud spend is wasted on idle, oversized, or misconfigured resources. Worse, misconfiguration is the #1 cloud security risk — responsible for 67% of cloud security incidents. Galaxy IT brings the architecture discipline, automation, and FinOps practice that internal teams rarely have time to build.
End-to-end public cloud services for Houston-area businesses, delivered by certified AWS and Azure engineers.
Multi-AZ VPC/VNet design, IAM, network segmentation, landing zones, and reference architectures built for your workload.
Lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect strategies for servers, databases, and applications — with zero data loss.
CIS-aligned hardening, GuardDuty, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, zero-trust segmentation, and HIPAA/PCI/CMMC controls.
Reserved-instance planning, right-sizing, idle-resource cleanup, and monthly spend reviews to cut 20–40% of cloud waste.
Galaxy IT is your AWS partner of choice for North Houston. Our team is actively pursuing AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification and brings hands-on experience across the most-deployed AWS services — from compute and storage to managed databases, containers, serverless, and AI/ML workloads.
AWS services we manage:
As a Microsoft Partner, Galaxy IT delivers Azure designs that integrate cleanly with your existing Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Active Directory environment — the most common starting point for Texas businesses adopting cloud.
Azure services we manage:
Galaxy IT brings the engineering discipline you’d expect from a large consultancy with the responsiveness of a local Houston-area MSP. As a Microsoft Partner and AWS-credentialed practice, we own the entire lifecycle.
32%
of cloud spend is wasted on idle or oversized resources
67%
of cloud breaches stem from misconfiguration
20-40%
typical cost reduction after our FinOps review
10-20x
faster deployment with Infrastructure-as-Code
It depends on your existing stack and team skills. If you’re already heavily invested in Microsoft 365, Entra ID, and Active Directory, Azure usually wins on integration speed and identity simplicity. If you need the broadest service catalog, mature data/AI tooling, and the lowest unit costs on most compute SKUs, AWS is typically the right call. We help you choose based on workload, team, and budget — and we run both.
Small environments (10-20 servers, no heavy databases) usually migrate in 4-8 weeks. Mid-size environments (50-100 servers with line-of-business apps and SQL Server) typically run 3-6 months. Every migration starts with a 1-2 week discovery and assessment phase so we can build a phased cutover plan with measurable milestones.
Not if it’s done right. Most businesses save 10-30% on total IT operating costs after migrating — but only when right-sizing, reserved instances, lifecycle policies, and auto-scaling are in place from day one. Without those, cloud bills routinely double on-prem costs. Our FinOps practice exists specifically to prevent that.
Yes. Many of our Texas clients run hybrid (on-prem plus cloud) or multi-cloud (AWS plus Azure) by design — for cost arbitrage, vendor independence, or regulatory reasons. We deploy Azure Arc, AWS Outposts, site-to-site VPN, and ExpressRoute/Direct Connect to keep hybrid environments unified and manageable.
Every environment we build follows CIS benchmarks, least-privilege IAM, encryption at rest and in transit, and full audit logging via CloudTrail or Azure Monitor. We support HIPAA, PCI DSS, NIST 800-171/CMMC, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 control mappings — including the Microsoft Defender for Cloud and AWS Security Hub configurations that produce audit-ready evidence.
Yes. We instrument every workload with CloudWatch and Azure Monitor, build PagerDuty-driven on-call rotations, and own response for cloud-side incidents end-to-end. For security incidents, we pair Galaxy IT engineers with the Defender for Cloud / GuardDuty / Sentinel signals already running in your environment.
Absolutely. About half our cloud engagements are co-managed — your team handles application work, we handle cloud platform, security, and FinOps. We integrate with your ticketing system (Jira, ServiceNow, Freshservice) and stand up shared GitHub repositories for Terraform code reviews.
Cloud platform services are billed monthly based on environment size and complexity, with one-time fees for migrations. We pass through AWS/Azure consumption costs directly — no markup — and bill our engineering and managed-service hours transparently. Contact us at (346) 406-1700 for a scoped quote.
Talk to a Houston-based cloud architect about your AWS or Azure project. We’ll run a free architecture and cost-optimization review of your current environment — or scope a greenfield migration if you’re starting fresh.
