Migration, deployment, and cost optimization
Moving to the cloud is rarely the hard part. Running well on it afterwards is. Plenty of teams complete a migration and then find the bill climbing every month, the environment impossible to rebuild, and a handful of people the only ones who understand how any of it fits together.
The specialisms this service is made of, each with its own page. Most engagements draw on more than one.
Four things every engagement of this kind produces. What they amount to depends on where you are starting from.
An environment that can be rebuilt
Infrastructure described in code and standing up from nothing, so recovery is a procedure rather than an excavation. It is also the only honest test of whether the documentation is true.
A bill you can explain
Spend attributed to the workloads that cause it, and the largest lines understood before anything is tuned. Cost work that opens with a discount rather than a breakdown usually just moves the problem.
Migration in stages
Moved in pieces, with a way back at each one, rather than in a single cutover weekend. The order is chosen so the least reversible step happens last.
Operations your team can run
Access, alerting and runbooks handed to the people who will be on call. If we are the only ones who can operate it, the migration is not finished.
The named services behind the work, on the two clouds most of it has been on.
The same four stages whichever service the work sits under, Cloud Services included.
A short review first: what you are running now, what it costs, and where the work is genuinely blocked. It is a look at the estate, not a pitch.
The realistic paths and what each would cost you, including the skills your team already has and how hard the choice would be to reverse later. Sometimes the recommendation is to leave it alone.
One workflow, built and put in front of real users, before anyone commits to a larger scope. It is the fastest way to find out whether we understood the problem correctly.
Readable pipelines, alerting that speaks up instead of failing quietly, and documentation your own team can follow. A good handover is the point of the engagement, not an afterthought at the end of it.
