What Metal Toad does

Metal Toad is a privately held, founder-led AWS Advanced Consulting Partner founded in 2003 and headquartered in the United States, with offices in Los Angeles, Seattle, and São Paulo, Brazil. The firm delivers strategic AI consulting, AWS cloud managed services, cloud migration, application modernization, and custom SaaS development to enterprise clients primarily in Media & Entertainment (Sony, Fox, DC Entertainment, ABC, Wheel of Fortune, PBS, LA Philharmonic) and Automotive & Trucking (Daimler Trucks North America, Detroit Connect), with secondary reach into Sports & Gaming, Energy & Utility, Healthcare & Life Sciences, and Non-profit. Its technical stack is AWS-centric, spanning EC2, Lambda, S3, Bedrock, SageMaker, MediaConvert, Amplify, AppSync, and WAF, alongside modern web frameworks (React, Next.js, Angular, Flutter) and AI/ML capabilities including anomaly detection, generative AI workflows, and intelligent document processing. Metal Toad also develops Securitoad, a proprietary AI-powered cybersecurity product distributed via AWS Marketplace that ingests CloudFront logs, applies ML-based risk scoring, and integrates with AWS WAF for automated IP blocking. The firm earns revenue primarily through project-based professional services engagements and recurring AWS managed services contracts, supplemented by Securitoad subscriptions on AWS Marketplace. Go-to-market combines direct enterprise field sales anchored by case-study-led marketing, content publishing, regular hackathons, and the AWS Partner Network and AWS Marketplace distribution channels.

Name

Metal Toad

Legal name

Metal Toad Media, Inc.

Website

https://metaltoad.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Metal Toad is a founder-led, US-based AWS Advanced Consulting Partner founded in 2003 that delivers cloud managed services, cloud migration, generative AI consulting, and application modernization primarily to enterprise clients in Media & Entertainment and Automotive & Trucking, while also productizing the Securitoad AI security offering on AWS Marketplace.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Cloud Consulting and Managed Services

NAICS

Other Computer Related Services (541519), Security Systems Services (except Locksmiths) (561621)

akta.pro primary industry

Cybersecurity Operations Outsourcing (SOC / SecOps) (BPAEAMAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Instrumentation, Controls & Automation Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAM)

Keywords

• AWS cloud consulting
• Cloud migration services
• Generative AI consulting
• Managed cloud services
• Application modernization

Headquarters

HQ city

Portland

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Professional Services - AI Consulting: Strategic AI consulting engagements including AI assessments, generative AI proof of concepts, and AI implementation roadmaps. Revenue is project-based and service-oriented, typically engagements with defined scopes.
2. AWS Cloud Managed Services: Ongoing managed services contracts where Metal Toad takes responsibility for cloud operations, maintenance, monitoring, and optimization. Provides recurring revenue through service contracts.
3. Cloud Migration Services: Migration engagements including GenAI migration, CDN migration, AWS VMware migration, and community migrations. Project-based professional services revenue.
4. SaaS Application Development: Custom software development services for SaaS applications using React, Next.js, Flutter, Angular, and AWS Amplify. Project-based development revenue.
5. Securitoad Product Sales: AI-powered cybersecurity product sold through AWS Marketplace with free trial availability. Generates usage-based or subscription revenue from the SaaS security product.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Metal Toad is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that sells strategic AI consulting, cloud migration, managed cloud services, application modernization, and custom SaaS development to enterprise clients. Its proprietary product Securitoad provides AI-powered real-time cybersecurity through AWS Marketplace. The firm specializes in generative AI implementations using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Nova, intelligent document processing, and elastic cloud architectures for media, automotive, and entertainment workloads.

Product overview

Metal Toad is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner providing strategic AI consulting and cloud services. The company offers a portfolio of proprietary products and consulting services. The core proprietary product is Securitoad, an AI-powered real-time security product available on AWS Marketplace. Services include AWS Cloud Managed Services, AWS Cloud Migration (covering GenAI, CDN, VMware, and Community migrations), Generative AI Services (including AI Assessment, Amazon Nova, Amazon Bedrock Workshop, and Proof of Concept offerings), SaaS Development (React, Next.js, Flutter, Angular), AWS Elemental Services (video), and AWS 6-Point Inspection. The company specializes in helping organizations implement AI, migrate to cloud, modernize applications, and optimize AWS deployments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Securitoad: AI-powered real-time security product for cyber threat prevention. Available on AWS Marketplace, it provides complete cyber threat management using generative AI and machine learning to detect and block malicious traffic.

Products and services

• Securitoad AI-powered real-time cybersecurity product that uses generative AI and machine learning to analyze CloudFront logs, assign risk ratings, and automatically block malicious traffic via AWS WAF. Available on AWS Marketplace with free trial.
• AWS Cloud Managed Services Ongoing AWS Cloud management service providing architecture selection, configuration optimization, monitoring, and maintenance across compute, containers, storage, database, networking, analytics, and ML services under the AWS Shared Responsibility Model.
• AWS Cloud Migration Cloud migration services including GenAI Migration, CDN Migration, AWS VMware Migration, and Community Migration to help organizations transition workloads to AWS.
• Generative AI Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 40% increase in relevant hit rates for Sony search solution, with drastically reduced page load times and improved visitor satisfaction reported within first week of launch
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability10 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationMetal Toad is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with Generative AI Competency, specializing in AWS cloud services including compute, containers, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning, and media services. They leverage AWS's 240+ services portfolio to deliver cloud managed services, migration, and AI solutions to enterprise clients.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/metaltoad
• Facebookfacebook.com/metaltoad
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/metal-toad

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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