Building in the Cloud Without Burning Cash: How Founders Scale Without Killing Runway
Building in the Cloud Without Burning Cash
How Founders Scale Without Killing Runway
Most founders start the same way.
You get free cloud credits from AWS, Azure or Google Cloud. You build fast. Infrastructure is the last thing on your mind.
Then growth happens.
Users arrive. Storage grows. Data transfer increases. The cloud bill starts moving in a direction nobody planned for.
Before long, you're spending valuable runway on infrastructure decisions made months or years earlier.
In this practical 60-minute founder workshop, we'll unpack the hidden costs that catch startups by surprise and show you how successful founders think about infrastructure before it becomes a commercial problem.
You'll learn:
✅ Why free cloud credits create a false sense of security
✅ The hidden costs founders often miss until the bill arrives
✅ How investors increasingly assess infrastructure efficiency
✅ When cloud infrastructure starts working against growth
✅ How to avoid expensive panic migrations
✅ Practical ways to improve visibility, control and scalability
Live Founder Diagnostic Tools
We'll also walk through two free diagnostic tools:
When Should I Migrate?
Understand when your current infrastructure model stops making commercial sense.
What Are You Consuming?
Identify hidden waste, underutilised services and infrastructure spend leakage.
Who Should Attend?
Startup Founders
AI Founders
SaaS Companies
CTOs & Technical Co-Founders
Pre-Seed to Series A Businesses
Teams using AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
Hosted By
Koby Yogaretnam
Head of Growth, Enigma Net
Former accelerator leader and startup ecosystem specialist who has worked with over 700 founders across the UK and internationally.
Glenn Melford Colegate
Founder and CTO, Enigma Net
Glenn founded Enigma in 2020 with a vision to create high performance and secure network protocols for the AI era. He is responsible for the company's intellectual property and leads the design and development of the company's products both in networking and in compute and storage. He has created a globally hosted infrastructure which is now at the heart of Enigma's customer offerings.
Dirk Pitblado
Growth Manager, Enigma Net
Innovation and infrastructure specialist supporting startups building scalable cloud environments.