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Pain Points

Why Teams Leave GitLab (Tooling Only)

GitLab is excellent DevOps tooling. CloudLink is the human + multi-cloud operating system around it — on-call, FinOps, security, and platform ownership.

Tools without owners

Green pipelines do not fix 3am outages. Contractual on-call does.

Platform debt

Runners, Kubernetes, and cloud accounts still need seniors.

Security & compliance

Scanning jobs help — evidence and remediation need people.

Cost of cloud + CI

FinOps must cover runners and production, not only licenses.

Multi-Cloud

Deploy on Any Cloud. We Manage It All.

CloudLink is cloud-agnostic. Whether you're on AWS, Azure, or GCP — our engineers are certified across all three major providers.

AWS
Amazon Web Services
EKS, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront & 200+ services
Az
Microsoft Azure
AKS, Cosmos DB, Functions & 600+ services
G
Google Cloud
GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Run & Vertex AI
Certified across all 3 clouds
Unified Terraform management
Cross-cloud cost optimization
Features

Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Comprehensive comparison across infrastructure, support, security, and cost management

FeatureCloudLinkGitLab (Tooling Only)
GitLab CI expertise
15-min production SLA
Multi-cloud platform ops
FinOps programme
Security hardeningPartial
Pricing

Total Cost of Ownership

Monthly cost comparison including all hidden fees, tools, and engineering hours

CloudLink
All-inclusive retainer
Flat Monthly Retainer$3,500
GitLab licenses$200
CloudLink retainer$3,500
1 items included in retainer
Total$7,200/mo
GL
GitLab (Tooling Only)
Pay per item + engineering
GitLab licenses$400
Platform engineering$10,000
CloudLink retainer$0
Total$10,400/mo
$3,200/mo saved
That's 31% less than GitLab (Tooling Only)$38,400 saved annually

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Migration

Migration Timeline

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Day 1
Pipeline + prod review
Day 2
On-call + runbooks
Day 3
Retainer live
Zero-downtime migration
Full security audit included
Money-back guarantee
SP

"GitLab stayed. CloudLink finally owned everything after merge."

Sofia P.
VP Platform, Product Co

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