DevOps Approach
A platform designed for enterprise-scale operations
Clever Cloud handles day-to-day operations and keeps your services running smoothly, so your teams can focus on strategy, architecture, and automation.
Experience an infrastructure that automates operations while leaving you in full strategic control.
Giving DevOps teams time and visibility
In large organizations, DevOps teams are often caught between two pressures: keeping critical services running and meeting the demands of strategic projects. Too often, they spend more time handling incidents, maintaining custom scripts, or ensuring bare-minimum service availability than working on architecture, legacy systems, or implementing new automation.
Clever Cloud offers a different approach: freeing DevOps teams from repetitive infrastructure management tasks so they can regain the time needed to truly drive their company’s technical transformation.
Our platform automates day-to-day operations: continuous monitoring, automated redeployments in case of incidents, environment updates, backups, and scalability. Teams keep strategic control—without having to bear the full weight of operational responsibilities.
Ensuring operational continuity
In the application lifecycle, the run phase is often the most expensive and time-consuming. It requires scarce expertise and pulls DevOps teams away from their main mission: designing and improving the overall architecture.
Clever Cloud takes care of keeping your services in optimal operating condition: proactive monitoring, automatic recovery in case of failure, access security, and management of critical dependencies. The goal is simple: ensuring your applications remain available and performant—without constant manual effort on your part.
Automation without losing control
With Clever Cloud, automation does not mean loss of control. DevOps teams retain full visibility and governance through our tools: unified console, API, CLI, and Terraform integrations. You can track resource usage, adjust scaling rules, and enforce your own security policies—all while benefiting from a level of automation that removes low-value operational tasks.
This allows teams to focus their time and expertise where it matters most: migrating legacy systems, designing hybrid or multi-cloud architectures, building robust CI/CD pipelines, and managing security and identity policies.
Reducing friction between teams
By working on a common foundation, development, operations, security, and management teams share the same vocabulary, metrics, and tools. This consistency significantly reduces daily misunderstandings and tensions. Developers no longer have to wait for infrastructure to be provisioned manually, operations teams benefit from clear monitoring to anticipate incidents, and security teams gain stronger traceability. The result: smoother, more efficient collaboration, where everyone can focus on their role without bottlenecks or wasted time.
Security, compliance, and governance
Clever Cloud operates its own data centers located in France. This direct control ensures the legal sovereignty of data, compliance with GDPR, and protection against extraterritorial laws such as the Cloud Act or the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The sites are certified ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and HDS, and meet the strictest security requirements..
Access governance is based on a managed IAM with Keycloak, enabling precise and auditable user rights management. Access and activity logs are continuously available to meet compliance audit requirements.
Freeing DevOps to focus on what matters
By delegating day-to-day operations and service management to Clever Cloud, your DevOps teams can finally devote their energy to high-value projects: modernizing legacy applications, strengthening IT security, setting up isolated test environments, or adopting new automation practices.
Infrastructure stops being a constant constraint and becomes a true driver of transformation.
Measurable results
Companies that adopt Clever Cloud see a clear shift: fewer incidents caused by manual operations, a significant reduction in time spent on service maintenance, and DevOps teams able to refocus on design and strategy. On average, migrating to our platform reduces operational costs by 30% and cuts by three the time required to maintain complex environments.
Our clients experience these benefits every day.
Shopopop, whose activity tripled during the health crisis, highlights the peace of mind provided by Clever Cloud: “Clever Cloud service allowed us to be very calm despite the threefold increase of our activity.” Hosted in France, their platform also reassures partners about data compliance and protection.
DAN Paris (TBWA)chose Clever Cloud to absorb traffic spikes linked to the release of a major film: “ In order to secure the load peaks, especially for the launch of the movie, we needed a very scalable platform. That’s when I thought, this is it ; this is when we must use Clever Cloud. Everything went perfectly.” The agency also emphasizes the time saved through automation, a key factor for projects delivered under tight deadlines.
Regain strategic control—without the operational burden.
FAQ
Continuous operations, governance, advanced integration: common questions from DevOps teams.
How does Clever Cloud handle production incidents?
The platform continuously monitors the health of applications and resources. In the event of a crash or failure, instances are automatically redeployed. This approach significantly reduces Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) and allows teams to focus on root cause analysis rather than the immediate recovery of services.
Can service health be monitored in real time?
Yes. Clever Cloud provides a built-in Grafana instance with ready-to-use dashboards, along with centralized logs and metrics. You can access this data directly through the console, customize your charts, or set up alerts—such as Slack notifications—to respond quickly to anomalies.
How does the platform support security audits?
All access and sensitive actions are logged. These logs can be reviewed and leveraged to meet internal or external audit requirements. The managed IAM based on Keycloak allows you to enforce role- and rights-based policies tailored to each organization, while ensuring full traceability of operations.
Can sensitive environments be isolated?
Yes. Clever Cloud allows you to segment environments (development, testing, production) with strict network isolation. This separation meets the security requirements of critical environments and helps ensure compliance with standards such as HDS or ISO 27001.
How does Clever Cloud integrate with existing CI/CD pipelines?
Deployments can be triggered from your pipelines using the Clever Tools CLI, the REST API, or Terraform integrations. This allows you to keep your existing orchestrators (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, etc.) while benefiting from the reliability and reproducibility of Clever Cloud deployments.
Is it possible to run Clever Cloud in a hybrid environment?
Yes. The platform can be used for part of your workloads while keeping other components on-premises or with other cloud providers. This flexibility is particularly useful during progressive migrations or for maintaining legacy systems that cannot be moved immediately.
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