Cloud Posse

Cloud Posse is a United States-based technology company headquartered in Pasadena, California. It operates at the intersection of cloud infrastructure consulting and open-source software development, helping engineering teams design, automate, and operate cloud environments. The company is best known for its deep expertise in HashiCorp Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS) architecture, and software delivery workflows, and for maintaining a substantial portfolio of open-source Terraform modules and DevOps tooling. On its official website, Cloud Posse describes its core value proposition as helping engineering teams work through problems with Terraform, cloud architecture, and software delivery. The firm positions itself as a hands-on consulting partner: clients describe what is getting in their way, Cloud Posse helps identify the next step, and the scope of work is agreed upon before engagement begins. This consultative, statement-of-work-driven model is typical of boutique cloud consultancies that serve mid-market and enterprise engineering organizations. Beyond consulting, Cloud Posse is widely recognized in the DevOps community for its open-source contributions. The company maintains a large collection of reusable Terraform modules (often published under the Cloud Posse GitHub organization) that encode best practices for AWS infrastructure, and it develops Atmos, an open-source CLI tool for managing Terraform and OpenTofu workflows at scale using stacks and components. These projects have made Cloud Posse a recognizable name among platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code practitioners. The company is privately held and does not appear to be listed on any public stock exchange. Its workforce is distributed, and it serves clients remotely across the United States and internationally. Because it combines paid consulting engagements with freely available open-source software, Cloud Posse occupies a hybrid position in the cloud services market: part professional services firm, part open-source software steward. As of the available evidence, Cloud Posse remains an active commercial entity. Its official website continues to market consulting services around Terraform, cloud architecture, and software delivery, while its open-source ecosystem supports a global community of infrastructure engineers.

Cloud Posse is a privately held technology company based in Pasadena, California, in the United States. Public evidence about its corporate history is limited, but its market identity is well established through its official website and its open-source footprint. The company emerged as part of the broader wave of DevOps and cloud-native consultancies that grew during the 2010s as enterprises migrated workloads to public cloud platforms, especially Amazon Web Services. Cloud Posse built its reputation around infrastructure-as-code, particularly HashiCorp Terraform, and around reusable Terraform modules that encode production-grade AWS patterns. Its open-source modules became widely used by platform and infrastructure teams seeking to standardize cloud provisioning. Over time, Cloud Posse expanded from consulting into tooling. It developed and released Atmos, an open-source command-line interface for orchestrating Terraform and OpenTofu across many environments using a stacks-and-components model. Atmos addresses a common pain point for larger organizations: managing many Terraform root modules and workspaces consistently. The project reinforced Cloud Posse's standing in the infrastructure-as-code community. On its official website, Cloud Posse presents a consulting-led engagement model. The site states that the company helps engineering teams work through problems with Terraform, cloud architecture, and software delivery, and that it agrees on the scope of work before starting. This reflects a professional-services approach in which discovery and scoping precede delivery. The company is headquartered in Pasadena, California, according to public company data. It is privately held and not listed on a public exchange. Its consulting services and open-source projects are delivered to a geographically distributed client and user base, with much of its community activity occurring through GitHub and related developer channels. As of the available evidence, Cloud Posse remains active, continuing to offer consulting around Terraform, cloud architecture, and software delivery while maintaining its open-source tools.

Boutique cloud infrastructure consultancy and open-source DevOps tooling provider focused on Terraform, AWS, and software delivery.

• Atmos

  Open-source CLI for managing Terraform and OpenTofu workflows using stacks and components.

• Cloud Posse Terraform Modules

  A large library of reusable, production-grade Terraform modules for AWS and related cloud services.

1. 1Cloud Infrastructure & Atmos Consulting | Cloud Possecloudposse.com
2. 2Cloud Posse (United States) - Wikidatawikidata.org