DevOps

by Team Azilen

June 11, 2025

Why New-Age Software Products are Turning to DevOps as a Service?

Imagine you’ve just closed a major enterprise deal, and your team needs to push a custom integration live within a week. But your CI/CD setup is fragile, staging environments take hours to spin up, and half your backend team is tied up fixing deployment issues.

This is the everyday reality for many ISVs — tight deadlines, fast-changing customer needs, and pressure to deliver quality software without operational headaches.

That’s where DevOps as a Service (DaaS) proves its value. It’s like plugging into an engine that’s already tuned, tested, and ready to scale.

What DevOps as a Service Really Means for Product Companies?

DevOps as a Service is like hiring an expert chef to handle all your kitchen mishaps instead of fumbling your way through a complex recipe.

It combines the principles of DevOps — which include collaboration, automation, and continuous delivery — with a service model that takes the heavy lifting off your plate.

Instead of assembling your own DevOps team, you can tap into external expertise to manage your CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and infrastructure management, letting you focus on what really matters, your product.

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Aspect	Traditional DevOps	DevOps as a Service
Definition	DevOps practices are implemented and managed internally by an organization.	DevOps is offered as a service by third-party providers, externalizing management.
Infrastructure	Typically relies on in-house or cloud infrastructure managed by the company.	Infrastructure is managed by the service provider (usually cloud-based).
Toolchain Management	The organization chooses and integrates its own tools (e.g., Jenkins, Docker).	The DevOps as a Service provider offers a pre-built toolchain integrated and maintained by them.
Automation	Automation depends on the internal team's expertise.	Automated workflows, CI/CD pipelines, and environment setups provided by the DevOps as a Service provider.
Cost Model	Higher upfront costs for infrastructure, tools, and teams. Ongoing maintenance cost.	Pay-as-you-go or subscription-based pricing, reducing upfront costs.
Scalability	Limited by internal infrastructure and expertise. Requires manual scaling.	Highly scalable and elastic, leveraging the provider’s cloud resources.
Maintenance & Support	The organization is responsible for updates, patches, and tool management.	The DevOps as a Service provider handles maintenance, updates, and support for DevOps tools and environments.
Deployment Speed	Deployment speed depends on internal processes and team expertise.	Faster deployments due to pre-configured environments and automated pipelines.
Team Size	Requires a dedicated DevOps team or engineers to manage processes.	A smaller team is needed as much of the work is offloaded to the DevOps as a Service provider.
Focus	Requires a balance between managing DevOps and development efforts.	Allows the team to focus more on product development while the provider handles DevOps.
Use Case	Ideal for organizations with the expertise and resources to manage DevOps internally.	Ideal for startups, SMBs, or companies that want to offload DevOps complexity and focus on core development.

Why ISVs are Shifting to DevOps as a Service?

The pressure on software companies today is real.

1. Speed to Market is Everything

ISVs don’t have the luxury of slow cycles. Whether you’re building a vertical SaaS platform or an AI-driven B2B app, the faster you release, the faster you grow.

DaaS enables this by giving you CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and rollback-ready environments out of the box.

2. Infrastructure is Getting More Complex

Multi-cloud, containers, Kubernetes, edge deployments — things get complex fast. Hiring and retaining DevOps engineers to manage it all is a huge lift.

With DaaS, you tap into a team that’s already dealt with those edge cases, so you don’t spend weeks troubleshooting an obscure Terraform error.

3. Budgets are Tighter, Expectations Higher

CFOs want leaner ops. CTOs want faster delivery. Product leads want reliable environments.

DaaS makes that triangle work by turning DevOps into a predictable, scalable service with flexible pricing.

Top Challenges DevOps as a Service Solves for ISVs

If your team has ever faced any of the following, you’re already a good candidate for DevOps as a Service:

Challenge #1: Broken Staging Environments

Too many bugs reach production because staging isn’t stable or worse, it doesn’t match production.

DaaS Fix: Environments are spun from IaC (Infrastructure as Code), so they stay consistent across dev, staging, and prod.

Challenge #2: Testing Delays

QA cycles drag because tests fail randomly, or pipelines are flaky.

DaaS Fix: Integrated test automation frameworks (like Cypress, Selenium, or REST Assured) are baked into the CI pipeline and managed 24×7.

Challenge #3: Manual Deployments

Deploying a hotfix takes hours. One config error takes down your app.

DaaS Fix: Versioned, rollback-enabled deployments are preconfigured. You get blue-green or canary releases without engineering extra load.

Challenge #4: Cloud Cost Surprises

Your cloud bills spike, but no one knows why.

DaaS Fix: Monitoring and autoscaling policies are implemented from day one. You get observability into what’s costing what.

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What a Good DevOps as a Service Model Looks Like

Here’s what ISVs should expect from a modern DevOps as a Service offering:

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Feature	What You Should Expect
Toolchain	Ready-to-use CI/CD pipeline (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD)
Infra as Code	Terraform or Pulumi-based reproducible environments
Monitoring	Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, or Datadog fully integrated
Security	Secrets management, role-based access, audit trails
Scalability	Auto-scaling Kubernetes clusters, multi-region deployments
Support	24x7 monitoring and on-call SLAs for production stability

What Product Companies Achieve with DaaS? Azilen’s Impact

Building on real examples from Azilen, here are three practical case studies that show how ISVs have leveraged DaaS (and related FinOps/DevSecOps) to solve real problems and unlock growth.

1. Cloud Cost Optimization for a SportsTech Platform

Client: US-based SportsTech company engaging golf communities

Challenges:

➜ No visibility into AWS spend

➜ Over-provisioned environments (Dev/Staging)

➜ Security gaps and manual cost management

Solution:

✔️ Real-time cost visibility via CloudWatch, AWS Budgets, Cost Explorer

✔️ Moved underutilized Dev/Staging EC2 instances to on-demand and Lambda-backed auto-scaling/shutdown using scheduler APIs

✔️ Tightened SSH access, DB whitelisting, and audit via AWS Security Hub & Trusted Advisor

Results:

✅ 50% reduction in AWS costs

✅ 2× increase in security audit score

✅ Governance with compliance (SOC 2-ready)

To learn more, read the full case study ➜ Cloud Cost Optimization for Comunity Gaming Platform

2. Automated Kubernetes Optimization for a HealthTech Platform

Client: SaaS-based AI-driven diagnostic platform used across 100+ clinics/hospitals

Challenges:

➜ Required zero-downtime deployments

➜ Compliance and scalable hosting for sensitive health data

➜ Manual Kubernetes orchestration and monitoring

Solution:

✔️ Automated DevSecOps pipelines with zero-downtime deployment workflows

✔️ Serverless and Kubernetes orchestration, container optimization

✔️ Continuous, real-time monitoring and alerting with log pipelines

✔️ Python-based scripts for building, deploying, and scaling operations

Results:

✅ Reliable deployment rollout across global clinics with no downtime

✅ Strong security posture via zero-trust infra automation

✅ Efficient container orchestration and observability from day one

To learn more, read the full case study ➜ Automated Kubernetes Optimization for HealthTech Platform

3. Managed DevOps for a Multi‑Tenant Digital Payments Platform

Client: Enterprise-grade digital payments provider

Challenges:

➜ Migration from monolith to microservices struggling under high transaction load

➜ Downtime and outages during peak usage

➜ PCI‑DSS compliance required

➜ Lack of real-time infra visibility, ballooning OpEx

Solution:

✔️ Re-architected platform to microservices + serverless infrastructure

✔️ Fully automated CI/CD pipelines

✔️ Implemented real-time monitoring with alerts

✔️ Enforced PCI-DSS security controls for a multi-tenant setup

Results:

✅ High availability and scalability, handling massive sets of transactions seamlessly

✅ Reduced outages during peak times

✅ Full cloud cost and usage visibility, curbing runaway budgets

To learn more, read the full case study ➜ Managed DevOps Services for Digital Payments Platform

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How Azilen Makes DevOps as a Service Work for ISVs?

We’ve spent 16+ years engineering software platforms — some B2B, some SaaS, some enterprise-grade — with scale and speed at the center.

Here’s what we bring to the table for ISVs like you:

Pre-Built, Custom-Fit Toolchains

From GitHub Actions to ArgoCD, we plug in the right tools for your stack. And if you’re migrating? We’ve got that covered too.

Quick Launch Timeline

Our onboarding model ensures you’re DevOps-ready within weeks. That means CI/CD, monitoring, and IaC are fully set up, and fast.

Observability and Monitoring

You get dashboards, logs, and security audits. No more “What just happened?” in production.

One Team, One Focus

We work like your in-house DevOps team — just faster, leaner, and always on.

Let’s Talk About Getting You There

You’re already building something great. The question is — how much faster, better, and easier would it be if your team didn’t have to worry about pipelines breaking, environments drifting, or infra scaling?

That’s what we’re here for.

Let’s explore how Azilen’s DevOps as a Service can help you stay focused on building, while we handle the behind-the-scenes engine.

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Why New-Age Software Products are Turning to DevOps as a Service?

What DevOps as a Service Really Means for Product Companies?

Why ISVs are Shifting to DevOps as a Service?

1. Speed to Market is Everything

2. Infrastructure is Getting More Complex

3. Budgets are Tighter, Expectations Higher

Top Challenges DevOps as a Service Solves for ISVs

Challenge #1: Broken Staging Environments

Challenge #2: Testing Delays

Challenge #3: Manual Deployments

Challenge #4: Cloud Cost Surprises

What a Good DevOps as a Service Model Looks Like

What Product Companies Achieve with DaaS? Azilen’s Impact

1. Cloud Cost Optimization for a SportsTech Platform

Challenges:

Solution:

Results:

2. Automated Kubernetes Optimization for a HealthTech Platform

Challenges:

Solution:

Results:

3. Managed DevOps for a Multi‑Tenant Digital Payments Platform

Challenges:

Solution:

Results:

How Azilen Makes DevOps as a Service Work for ISVs?

Pre-Built, Custom-Fit Toolchains

Quick Launch Timeline

Observability and Monitoring

One Team, One Focus

Let’s Talk About Getting You There

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