Cloud infrastructure that does not surprise you at invoice time
Most cloud bills are 30–40% waste, and most cloud migrations are a data centre lifted into someone else's data centre. We do the version that actually pays off.
Cloud, done so the bill does not surprise you
Most cloud bills are 30–40% waste, and most migrations are a data centre lifted into someone else’s data centre. We do the version that pays off.
Migration & Modernisation
Every workload assessed individually — and we are perfectly willing to tell you some of them should stay exactly where they are.
- Rehost, replatform, refactor, or retire
- Wave planning and cutover runbooks
- Zero-downtime database migration
- Legacy modernisation
Landing Zones & Architecture
Account structure, networking, and guardrails set up right the first time, because unpicking it later is brutal.
- Multi-account organisation design
- Network topology and connectivity
- Identity and permission boundaries
- Policy guardrails and SCPs
Infrastructure as Code
Every environment reproducible from a repository. No click-ops, no snowflake servers, no "only Dave knows how prod was built".
- Terraform modules and registries
- Reusable environment blueprints
- Drift detection
- Automated compliance checks
Containers & Kubernetes
Superb when you need it, a permanent tax when you do not. We will tell you which one you are.
- EKS, AKS, GKE
- Service mesh where it earns its keep
- Autoscaling and cost-aware scheduling
- Progressive delivery
FinOps & Cost Control
You cannot FinOps your way out of a bad architecture. We fix it at the design layer, then instrument the rest.
- Tagging and showback
- Rightsizing and commitment planning
- Egress and data-transfer audit
- Budget alerts that fire before month end
Cloud Security Posture
Least privilege that survives contact with reality, and a way to know when it stops being true.
- IAM and permission boundaries
- Secrets management and rotation
- Posture monitoring (CSPM)
- Encryption and key management
Why choose our cloud team
We have been on the wrong end of enough migrations to know where they go wrong.
We will tell you not to migrate
On one engagement we talked a manufacturer out of moving two systems, because latency to plant equipment made cloud a bad fit. No vendor had ever done that for them.
Cost is an architecture problem
Egress charges, chatty services, over-provisioned instances, forgotten environments — these are design decisions that show up later as line items.
Boring technology, on purpose
We pick well-supported, well-understood tools unless there is a specific reason not to. Your team has to run this after we leave.
Our cloud migration process
Assess, prove, migrate, optimise. In that order.
Assessment
Every workload scored on effort, risk, and business case.
Landing Zone
Accounts, networking, identity, and guardrails, in code.
Migrate
In waves, with runbooks and a tested rollback for each.
Optimise
Rightsizing, commitments, and FinOps discipline that sticks.
Migration without the theatre
Lift-and-shift gets you a more expensive data centre. Full rewrite gets you an eighteen-month project that misses its window. We assess each workload individually and are perfectly willing to tell you that some of them should stay exactly where they are.
- Rehost — when the clock matters more than the bill
- Replatform — managed databases, managed queues, less to run
- Refactor — only where the business case survives scrutiny
- Retire — the cheapest migration is the one you do not do
Cost is an architecture problem
You cannot FinOps your way out of a bad architecture. Egress charges, chatty services, over-provisioned instances, and forgotten environments are design decisions that show up as line items. We fix them at the design layer and instrument the rest.
Questions we get asked
Which cloud should we be on?
Usually the one your team already knows. The differences between the major providers matter far less than the difference between a well-run and a badly-run account.
Do we need Kubernetes?
Probably not, and we will say so. It is superb when you need it and a permanent tax when you do not.
Cloud bill going the wrong direction?
A two-week assessment usually finds more than it costs.