Azure & AWS Cloud
Certified Azure and AWS engineers to migrate, secure, and operate your cloud footprint — Well-Architected reviews, managed services, and cost optimization.
What we deliver
- Azure and AWS Well-Architected reviews
- Landing zone and multi-account setup
- Managed compute, storage, and networking
- Identity, security, and compliance baselines
- Cost optimization and rightsizing
- Windows / Linux workload migration
Platform architecture and managed services
Azure and AWS solve the same problems with different primitives, and good architecture on one is not a template for the other. On Azure that means subscriptions and management groups, resource groups, Entra ID as the identity spine, virtual networks with hub-and-spoke peering, and the platform services — App Service, AKS, Azure SQL, Storage accounts — that carry their own scaling and redundancy behavior. On AWS it means accounts under Organizations, VPCs and transit gateways, IAM roles and policies, and the service set around EC2, RDS, S3, ECS or EKS, and Lambda.
The decisions that matter are usually about how much platform to take on. Managed services remove operational work but constrain configuration; self-managed instances keep control at the price of running them. We make that call per workload against your real requirements — version dependencies, licensing, patch and maintenance windows, recovery objectives — rather than defaulting to whichever pattern is fashionable, and we run the resulting environment day to day.
Identity, networking, and security baselines
Nearly every serious cloud incident traces back to identity or network exposure. The baseline we set is unglamorous and effective: no standing privileged access, roles rather than long-lived keys, multi-factor enforcement on anything administrative, conditional access or equivalent policy, and permission boundaries scoped so a compromised workload identity cannot reach beyond its job. Entra ID and AWS IAM express these ideas differently, so the implementation is platform-specific even where the intent is identical.
Networking follows the same discipline — private subnets by default, egress controlled and logged, private endpoints or VPC endpoints for platform services instead of public paths, and segmentation that reflects real trust boundaries. On top of that sit encryption with managed keys, centralized logging into Log Analytics or CloudWatch and CloudTrail, and detective controls in Defender for Cloud or Security Hub. We configure and operate these; assessing them against a formal standard remains your auditor's role.
Cost and governance on each platform
Cloud spend drifts upward unless something actively pushes back. Guardrails come first — Azure Policy and management group scopes, or AWS Organizations service control policies and Config rules — so that non-compliant or oversized resources are prevented rather than discovered on an invoice. Consistent tagging matters more than any dashboard, because spend you cannot attribute to an owner is spend nobody will reduce.
Optimisation is then routine work: rightsizing against observed utilization rather than the original spec, Reserved Instances or Savings Plans on AWS and Reservations on Azure sized to genuinely steady baseline demand, storage tiering, and shutting non-production environments outside working hours. Azure Hybrid Benefit and license positioning often move the number more than instance choices do. Our cloud cost calculator gives a rough starting comparison; if you are still planning the move itself, start with cloud migration & administration.
Common questions
Should we choose Azure or AWS?
The honest answer is that both are capable platforms and the decision usually turns on non-technical factors — existing Microsoft licensing and identity, in-house skills, procurement relationships, and the specific managed services your workloads need. Azure tends to be the shorter path for organizations already standardized on Microsoft; AWS often suits Linux-heavy and custom application estates. We assess against your situation rather than argue a preference.
Can you work with our existing Azure or AWS environment?
Yes. Most engagements start with a review of what is already deployed — identity configuration, network design, security posture, resilience, and cost — and produce a prioritized remediation list. You choose what to address and in what order. We can implement the fixes, operate the environment ongoing, or do both.
Do you support workloads running on both Azure and AWS?
Yes, and multi-platform estates are common, usually through acquisition or team-by-team adoption rather than deliberate design. The practical challenge is keeping identity, security baselines, monitoring, and tagging consistent across two very different control planes. We standardize where standardising genuinely helps and accept platform-native differences where forcing uniformity would cost more than it returns.