Cloud Services
Cloud Migration
Workloads moved in planned waves, with a way back
A migration done in a hurry tends to recreate the old problems on a more expensive platform. We plan moves to the cloud in waves, choosing for each workload whether to rehost, refactor or retire it, and keep a rollback plan for every step.
- Discovery and assessment
- Migration strategy
- Landing zone setup
- Wave planning
- Data migration
- Post-migration optimization
Why it matters
Moving is the easy part. The real work is deciding what to move, in what order, and what the environment should look like once you are there.
What this includes
Six parts of the work. Which of them you need depends on where you are starting from, and we agree that before anything is built.
- 01
Discovery and assessment
An inventory of applications, dependencies and data, with each workload assessed for the move.
- 02
Migration strategy
For each workload: rehost, replatform, refactor, replace or retire, with the reasoning written down.
- 03
Landing zone setup
Accounts, networking, identity and guardrails in place before the first workload arrives.
- 04
Wave planning
Workloads grouped and sequenced to limit risk and keep the business running.
- 05
Data migration
Databases and files moved with validation, and cut-over windows planned with the business.
- 06
Post-migration optimization
Right-sizing and tuning once workloads are running and real usage is visible.
Not sure which of these you need?
Tell us where things stand for you today and we will suggest where to start.
How we deliver it
Four stages, agreed with you before the work starts, with a working result at the end of each rather than one reveal at the end.
Assess
We map what you run today, how it connects, and what each workload needs.
Plan
We agree the target architecture, the migration path per workload and the wave schedule.
Migrate
Each wave is moved, tested and cut over, with rollback ready at every step.
Optimize
We tune cost and performance on real usage and hand over operating documentation.
The stack
Technologies we work with
The tools we reach for most often in this work. We fit in with what you already run rather than asking you to change it.
3 groups
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Cloud platforms
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
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Migration
- AWS Application Migration Service
- Azure Migrate
- AWS DMS
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Foundations
- Terraform
- AWS Control Tower
- Azure Landing Zones
What you receive
Yours to keep when the engagement ends, whether we carry on working together or not.
A migration plan
Every workload, its target, its wave and its rollback approach.
A landing zone
A secure, well-structured cloud foundation ready for production.
Migrated workloads
Applications and data running in the cloud, validated against the old environment.
An operations handbook
How the new environment is monitored, backed up and supported.
Common questions
The ones that come up in almost every first conversation about this work.
Usually not all of them. Many workloads can move as they are and be improved later. We reserve refactoring for the cases where it clearly pays off.
Through careful sequencing, replication where possible, rehearsed cut-overs in agreed windows, and a tested rollback plan for each step.
It depends on your existing licenses, skills, applications and region needs. We compare the options against those factors rather than defaulting to one.
Let's talk about Cloud Migration
A short call is usually enough to work out whether we can help and where it makes sense to start. No preparation needed.