Cloud Services
Azure and AWS migration, architecture and cost control
Most cloud bills we audit carry thirty to fifty percent waste, and most cloud incidents we investigate come down to three things: an over-permissive role, a storage container someone made public for a deployment and forgot, and logging that was never switched on. Cloud is not inherently less secure than a server room. It is simply faster to misconfigure, and the mistakes are reachable from the internet.
What is included.
Right if you are moving off aging on-premises hardware, already in cloud and losing control of spend, or running production in a subscription nobody has ever audited.
- Migration planning and executionAn honest assessment of what should move, what should be rebuilt, and what should stay where it is. Lift-and-shift where that is the right answer, re-architecture only where it pays for itself.
- Landing zone and account structureSubscription and account separation, network topology, naming and tagging standards, and guardrail policies applied before workloads land rather than retrofitted after.
- Infrastructure as codeTerraform or Bicep, so environments are reproducible, reviewable in a pull request and disposable — instead of clicked together in a portal by someone who has since left.
- Cost governanceRight-sizing, reserved capacity and savings plans, orphaned resource cleanup, non-production shutdown schedules, budget alerts and per-team chargeback reporting.
- Security posture managementIdentity and role review, public exposure checks, encryption and key management, and logging aligned to the CIS cloud benchmarks with drift detection.
- Resilience and recoveryMulti-zone design, backup with immutable copies, documented recovery objectives, and recovery tests that are actually performed rather than assumed.
Four phases, in this order.
The order matters more than the speed. Every phase has an exit condition you sign off before the next one starts.
Assess
An inventory of what you run, what it costs and what depends on it — including the workloads nobody can name an owner for. That inventory is usually the most valuable single artifact.
Design
Target architecture, landing zone, network and identity model documented and approved before anything moves. Guardrails go in first.
Migrate
Waves grouped by dependency, each with a tested rollback path and a defined cutover window. Nothing significant moves on a Friday.
Operate
Monthly cost and posture reporting, patching, capacity review and quarterly recovery testing, so the environment does not drift away from its own design.
What you receive.
- Current-state inventory with cost and dependency mapping
- Target architecture and landing zone design
- Infrastructure-as-code repository, documented and handed over
- Cost baseline plus monthly optimization report
- Backup and recovery plan with tested objectives
What we work with.
- Microsoft Azure
- AWS
- Terraform
- Bicep
- Entra ID
- AKS / Kubernetes
- Docker
- Azure Monitor
- CloudWatch
- Defender for Cloud
- CIS Benchmarks
- Veeam
We hold no exclusive reseller obligations. Recommendations are made on fit, your team's capacity to operate the thing, and local support availability — in that order.
Cloud Services, specifically.
Azure or AWS?
It depends on your existing licensing, your team's skills, local support availability and the workload itself. Microsoft-heavy organizations usually land cheaper on Azure because of license benefits they already own; data platform and container-heavy work is often stronger on AWS. We size both and show you the numbers rather than defaulting to whichever we prefer.
Will moving to the cloud reduce our costs?
Not on its own. A straight lift-and-shift almost always costs more per month than the server it replaced, because you are now renting peak capacity around the clock. Savings come from right-sizing, shutting non-production down outside working hours, reserved capacity and deleting what nobody uses. We quantify that before you commit, and we will tell you if staying on-premises is cheaper for your workload.
Where will our data physically sit?
Wherever you require it to. Establish the legal and contractual position first — some client contracts and sector regulations dictate residency. Both major providers operate regions on every continent; where residency matters we design for it explicitly and document which region every dataset lives in.
Often scoped alongside this.
Cybersecurity
Full-program security: risk assessment, policy, controls, audit readiness and the people to run it.
→VAPT
We break in the way an attacker would, then hand you the exact path, the evidence and the fix.
→SIEM
Logs collected, correlated and actually watched — with named analysts and a response time you can hold us to.
→Scope your cloud services engagement.
Send us the shape of your environment. You will get a written scope, a fixed price and a delivery timeline — usually within two business days.
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