A Women-Owned AWS Advanced Partner Built for Regulated Industries
Pandora Cloud is a Women-Owned Small Business and AWS Advanced Partner delivering compliance-first managed cloud solutions to regulated small and midsize businesses. Founded by Kim Howell and Isi Lawson, the company brings hands-on experience from defense contracting, healthcare IT, and enterprise cloud engineering to clients who cannot afford compliance failures.
Our Credentials
As a Women-Owned AWS Advanced Partner, Pandora Cloud holds designations that matter in regulated industries. Our Secret Facility Clearance allows us to work alongside defense contractors and government prime contractors on sensitive programs. We have direct experience building IL2, IL4, and IL5 environments on AWS GovCloud for Defense Industrial Base clients, and we operate under active Space Force contracts.
Our commercial credentials include WOSB certification, AWS Advanced Tier Partner status, and a track record of delivering HIPAA-aligned, SOC 2-aligned, and PCI DSS-aligned cloud environments for healthcare organizations, financial services firms, law practices, and insurance companies.
Why We Built Pandora Cloud
Compliance-first cloud is not a feature set. It is an operating philosophy. Most managed service providers treat compliance as a bolt-on. Pandora Cloud designs every environment to the control framework from day one, so there is no remediation sprint before an audit and no scramble when a client relationship depends on a certification letter.
The regulated industries we serve face a common problem: the people who understand cloud architecture often do not understand compliance frameworks, and the people who understand compliance often cannot deploy infrastructure. We bridge that gap. Our team holds both the technical depth and the framework knowledge to operate at the intersection of cloud engineering and regulatory compliance.
What Sets a Women-Owned AWS Advanced Partner Apart
Our WOSB status makes us a certified diverse supplier, which matters to clients with supplier diversity requirements and to government primes satisfying small business subcontracting plans. Our AWS Advanced Partner designation reflects demonstrated technical competency and a portfolio of customer success verified by AWS.
Our Secret Facility Clearance means we can support programs that require personnel security clearances at the facility level. This is a meaningful differentiator in the defense space, where most commercial managed service providers cannot participate in sensitive program discussions.
We operate across NIST 800-53, HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 frameworks. Our Bridge platform delivers managed compliance environments in two configurations: Bridge Defense for SBIR Phase 2 and Phase 3 teams needing an Authority to Operate on a fixed timeline, and Bridge Commercial for regulated SMBs in healthcare, finance, legal, and insurance that need a production-ready compliant cloud without building an internal cloud team.
Our Team
Kim Howell is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder. She brings experience in government contracting, business development, and program management with a focus on regulated environments and compliance-driven procurement. Isi Lawson is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder, with deep expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure automation, and security engineering across AWS environments.
Together, they lead a team of cloud engineers and compliance specialists who operate client environments daily, not just design them. Our managed services model means we remain in your environment for the long term, not just through the initial deployment.
