Cloud architecture, enterprise data center and cloud infrastructure

Service Capability

Cloud Solutions

Cloud migration, cloud-native architecture, and infrastructure modernisation across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud — from initial strategy through production operations.

What we do

Moving to the cloud requires more than copying workloads from a data centre to a virtual machine. Done well, it's an opportunity to reduce infrastructure costs, improve reliability, and unlock scalability that on-premise environments can't provide. Done poorly, it creates complexity without benefit.

Our cloud practice covers the full migration lifecycle — cloud strategy and business case, landing zone design, migration wave execution (lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect depending on workload), cloud-native application development, and ongoing FinOps to ensure cloud spend is controlled and optimised.

We are AWS Advanced Partner trained, Azure-experienced, and GCP-capable. We apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework and its equivalents across all major providers to ensure workloads are built to be secure, reliable, performant, and cost-efficient from day one.

Problems we address

  • — On-premise infrastructure costs are rising as hardware ages and licence fees compound
  • — Systems cannot scale to meet demand spikes without expensive over-provisioning
  • — Disaster recovery and business continuity objectives cannot be met with current infrastructure
  • — Cloud environments have grown organically without governance, creating security risk and unpredictable costs
  • — Vendor lock-in concerns are creating hesitation about committing to a single provider strategy
  • — Internal teams lack the cloud engineering depth to execute a migration safely and at pace

Capabilities

Cloud Migration & Lift Strategy

End-to-end migration planning and execution across lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect patterns. We select the right migration mode for each workload based on cost, risk, and target architecture goals.

Landing Zone Design

Multi-account AWS, Azure, or GCP environments with governance guardrails, network segmentation, identity federation, logging, and compliance controls built in from the start — not retrofitted.

Kubernetes on Cloud (EKS / AKS / GKE)

Managed Kubernetes cluster design, node group configuration, ingress and networking setup, autoscaling policies, and operational runbooks for engineering teams taking ownership post-migration.

Serverless Architectures

Event-driven function design using AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and GCP Cloud Run. Includes API Gateway integration, asynchronous triggers, cold start mitigation, and cost modelling for variable workloads.

Cloud Cost Optimisation (FinOps)

Reserved instance and savings plan analysis, rightsizing recommendations, tagging and chargeback strategy, and automated cost anomaly detection to prevent uncontrolled spend growth.

Cloud Security Baseline

IAM policy design, secrets management (Vault / AWS Secrets Manager), network security groups, CloudTrail/Security Hub setup, and CIS benchmark compliance checks aligned to your regulatory requirements.

Our approach

Assessment before migration

Every migration starts with an honest assessment of the existing estate. We inventory workloads, identify dependencies, score migration complexity, and produce a wave plan that sequences migrations by risk and business value rather than technical convenience.

Well-Architected from day one

We apply the AWS Well-Architected Framework — and its Azure and GCP equivalents — as a design lens throughout. This means workloads are evaluated against operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimisation at every stage, not just at review.

Migration waves, not big bang

We run migrations in defined waves, starting with lower-risk workloads to build team confidence and validate the target environment before moving business-critical systems. Each wave ends with a hypercare window before the next begins.

Cloud-native optimisation as a second phase

Lift-and-shift gets workloads into the cloud quickly, but cloud-native patterns — managed services, auto-scaling, serverless, and IaC-driven provisioning — deliver the real long-term cost and resilience benefits. We plan this optimisation phase explicitly during the initial strategy.

Delivery process

  1. 1

    Cloud readiness assessment

    Workload inventory, dependency mapping, TCO analysis, and cloud provider recommendation. Output is a migration strategy document and wave plan.

  2. 2

    Landing zone build

    Account structure, networking, IAM, logging, and security baseline provisioned using Terraform or Pulumi. Automated with policy-as-code guardrails.

  3. 3

    Migration wave execution

    Workloads migrated in prioritised waves with cutover runbooks, rollback procedures, and post-migration validation tests for each application.

  4. 4

    Cloud-native optimisation

    Replace over-provisioned VMs with managed services and autoscaling groups, introduce serverless where appropriate, and implement FinOps tooling for ongoing cost management.

  5. 5

    Handover & operational enablement

    Runbooks, observability dashboards, and on-call shadowing to transfer operational ownership to your team with confidence.

Technologies

AWS

EKSRDSLambdaS3CloudFrontAPI GatewaySecrets Manager

Azure

AKSAzure SQLAzure FunctionsAPIMAzure AD

GCP

GKEBigQueryCloud RunCloud SQL

Infrastructure as Code

TerraformPulumiHelmAWS CDK

Security & Governance

HashiCorp VaultAWS Security HubOPACheckov

FinOps

AWS Cost ExplorerKubecostInfracost

Industries served

Financial Services Healthcare Retail Manufacturing Technology Logistics

Related case studies

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Phased migration of a retail order management platform to AWS, enabling 11× peak seasonal traffic scaling and eliminating pre-provisioning costs.

Frequently asked questions

It depends on the number of workloads, their complexity, and how well-documented the existing environment is. A focused migration of 10–20 applications typically takes four to eight months from assessment to final cutover. Larger estates with 50+ applications may run 12–18 months. We structure migrations in waves so value is delivered incrementally rather than waiting for full completion.
Not automatically. Lift-and-shift migrations often increase costs initially because cloud pricing models differ from on-premise. The savings come from rightsizing, moving to managed services, autoscaling to match demand, and using reserved capacity for predictable workloads. We produce a TCO model upfront so you have realistic cost projections before committing, and we build FinOps practices in from the start to ensure cloud spend is continuously optimised.
Multi-cloud adds significant operational complexity and is justified only when there are specific business or regulatory reasons to avoid a single provider — such as geographic availability requirements or a strategic need for negotiating leverage. For most organisations, a primary cloud provider with a clearly architected abstraction layer for portability is the better choice. We help you make this decision based on your actual requirements, not cloud marketing.
Security is built into the landing zone design, not added after migration. We implement least-privilege IAM, encrypted storage, network segmentation, centralised logging, and automated compliance scanning (CIS benchmarks, SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS depending on your requirements) from the start. We also integrate secret management and certificate rotation so credentials are never stored in code or configuration files.
No, but they will need them before we finish. We embed knowledge transfer throughout the engagement — your engineers work alongside ours during the migration rather than receiving a handover document at the end. We can also provide focused training sessions on specific topics. The goal is for your team to own and operate the cloud environment confidently after we leave, not to create a dependency on us for ongoing operations.

Ready to move to the cloud?

Whether you're planning your first migration or optimising an existing cloud estate, our team can help you build a clear, risk-managed path forward.

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