Whether supporting Application Development, QA testing, R&D Labs, DevOps faces a delicate balancing act. Operations need to find ways to accelerate infrastructure provisioning for all users. At the same time, it needs to adhere to compliance needs, business controls, and security mandates. Simloud journey to the cloud solution: Navigating this balancing act includes addressing an increasingly complex infrastructure stack, Operations needs to provision and manage resources for core infrastructure (compute, virtualization), containers, microservices, multi-cloud, and edge infrastructures—all of which require heightened expertise in multiple technical domains. As a result, provisioning requests accumulate and become backlogged, with Operations eroding the productivity of the teams they are tasked to support. Simloud’s Environment as a Service (EaaS) platform allows DevOps to define and provision complete infrastructure stacks to support any application or Cloud Service. Role-based self-service access to infrastructure removes provisioning bottlenecks, while built in guardrails protect how resources are used. As a result, DevOps can enable developers, testers, and engineers to do their jobs faster, more efficiently, and more securely. Environments powered by modular blueprints Simloud environments encapsulate more than core infrastructure (public cloud, virtual machines, storage, container orchestration, etc.) and include data sources, network topology, cloud services, and applications services such as Kubernetes.