Headcount: 48 (+153%)
Specialism: AWS
HQ: Marlow, Buckinghamshire
This Marlow-based AWS Premier partner prioritises profitable, sustainable growth over acquisition-led scale, CEO Simon Walker tells us (see below).
Minority owned by Bytes Technology Group since 2023, Cloud Bridge’s last four sets of accounts show average monthly headcount swelling from 19 to 48.
A public cloud migration project for skincare brand Tropic Skincare is among the case studies trumpeted on its website.
View the wider Fast-Growth 50 here.
Q&A with Cloud Bridge CEO Simon Walker
How have you been able to increase headcount in a flat market?
We’ve grown by being deliberate rather than reactive. Our close alignment with AWS gives us global visibility, but growth has been driven by building services customers genuinely need – particularly around governance, managed services and AI-led optimisation.
We hire against proven demand, expand where we see repeatability, and prioritise profitable, sustainable growth over acquisition-led scale. That discipline has allowed us to increase headcount consistently, even in a cautious market.
What mega trend will most shape the year for your company?
The acceleration of agentic AI, generative AI and machine learning at enterprise scale.
Innovation is now moving faster than most organisations’ ability to govern it. The real opportunity isn’t just building AI workloads — it’s securing, controlling and optimising them without slowing innovation down.
That tension between speed and control will define the next phase of cloud evolution.
Which competitor or peer do you respect the most, and why?
There are several high-quality AWS-focused partners in the market. What differentiates Cloud Bridge is the combination of deep hyperscaler alignment, genuine independence and delivery presence across nine countries.
That allows us to operate at global scale while remaining agile and partner-led. Rather than focusing on competitors, we focus on execution and on aligning tightly with our ecosystem to deliver measurable outcomes.
What’s a fact or quirk about your company most people won’t know about?
Around half of our revenue now flows through ecosystem partners and distributors rather than solely through direct customers.
Combined with globally distributed delivery hubs, this enables us to build once, refine and replicate solutions internationally with speed and consistency. It is a model that allows us to scale efficiently while staying close to customers in each region.
Does the rise of AI and automation make it less likely you’ll continue to add headcount at the same rate in the coming years?
AI changes the quality and leverage of hiring, not our ambition to grow.
By embedding automation and AI into everything we do, we aim to grow revenue faster than headcount, improving productivity while freeing our teams to focus on customer strategy and complex problem-solving.
The goal is not fewer people — it is higher-impact people.
Name one thing you have planned for the next 12 months
We are scaling our next-generation managed services and governance platform globally, embedding AI, FinOps and security into every AWS environment we support.
At the same time, we are building agentic AI into our own internal operations and launching AI-led services that extend beyond traditional cloud management.
We believe the addressable market in front of us is several times our current scale. The next phase is about executing a repeatable, ecosystem-led model that allows us to grow into that opportunity in a disciplined and sustainable way.
