Cloud Management & Migration in Long Beach

Cloud Platforms for America’s Second-Busiest Port City

Long Beach is an industrial city that runs on the movement of physical goods: containers across the port, aircraft components through the aerospace supply chain, hydrocarbons through pipelines and refineries. The cloud infrastructure these industries need looks nothing like what a typical SaaS company requires. It involves real-time data from IoT sensors, connection to operational technology systems, compliance with maritime and aerospace regulations, and architectures where reliability isn’t a nice-to-have.

AdVran builds cloud environments for Long Beach businesses that understand this reality.

Port Logistics and Maritime Supply Chain

The Port of Long Beach, stretching from Pier A through the Middle Harbor to Pier J, is the second-busiest container port in the United States. The ecosystem of freight forwarders, customs brokers, trucking companies, and terminal operators surrounding it runs on data: container manifests, vessel ETAs, yard positions, chassis availability, drayage appointments, customs clearance status.

Here’s the thing: much of that data still flows through legacy EDI systems, on-prem TMS platforms, and Excel spreadsheets emailed between parties. That’s not a knock on anyone. It’s just where things are.

AdVran moves these operations onto cloud platforms that unify data streams in real time. We build event-driven architectures on AWS, using EventBridge, Kinesis, and Lambda, that ingest data from terminal operating systems, AIS vessel tracking, and trucking appointment systems, then surface it through dashboards and APIs that give dispatchers, brokers, and warehouse managers a single source of truth. Our platforms connect with CBP’s Automated Commercial Environment for electronic customs filing and with port-specific systems like the Port of Long Beach’s Supply Chain Information Highway.

Aerospace Manufacturing and Supply Chain

The aerospace corridor running along Cherry Avenue from Douglas Park south toward the airport supports a network of manufacturers, machine shops, and component suppliers feeding programs at Boeing, Rocket Lab, and other prime contractors. These companies run MES, quality management, and ERP systems that are increasingly expected to connect to cloud-based supply chain collaboration platforms used by primes.

AdVran moves these systems to cloud environments that meet AS9100 quality standards and, where applicable, ITAR export control requirements. We deploy on AWS GovCloud for ITAR workloads and commercial AWS or Azure for non-controlled data, with clear architectural boundaries between the two. Connection between shop floor MES systems and cloud ERP means production data flows automatically without manual re-entry.

Oil, Gas, and Energy Operations

The harbor area and Wilmington oil fields represent one of the oldest continuously operating petroleum production zones in California. Operations here involve SCADA systems monitoring wellheads, pipeline pressure sensors, tank farm levels, and refinery processes. Modernizing these systems requires a hybrid approach.

You can’t put real-time safety-critical SCADA control in the public cloud. But you absolutely can move historian data, predictive maintenance analytics, and regulatory reporting there.

AdVran builds hybrid industrial cloud setups with a clear separation between the OT network (which stays on-prem with air-gapped or data-diode-protected connectivity) and the IT/analytics layer (which runs on AWS or Azure). Operations teams can run machine learning models against historical process data, generate compliance reports automatically, and access dashboards remotely, all without touching the control plane. Get in touch to discuss cloud infrastructure for your Long Beach operation.