Cloud Migration & Administration
End-to-end cloud migration and day-two operations across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure — assessment, landing zones, migration, and managed administration.
What we deliver
- Cloud readiness assessment and TCO analysis
- Landing zone, networking, and IAM design
- Lift-and-shift, replatform, and refactor migrations
- Day-two operations, patching, and cost optimization
- Multi-cloud governance and security baselines
- Cloud FinOps and budget guardrails
Assessment and migration planning
Most failed migrations were decided before anyone touched a console. The assessment phase exists to establish what you actually run — application dependencies, integration points, data volumes and change rates, licensing constraints, latency tolerances, and the batch windows nobody documented — and to be honest about which workloads should move, which should be rebuilt, and which are better left where they are for now.
From that inventory we build a migration plan with a disposition per workload: rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, or retain. Each carries a different cost and risk profile, and the sequencing matters as much as the choice — dependencies migrate together or they migrate badly. The plan includes a target-state estimate you can hold us to, and our cloud cost calculator gives a first-pass view before any engagement starts. The longer reasoning is in our practical guide to cloud migration.
Executing the move and managing cutover risk
Execution is where risk concentrates, and almost all of it sits at cutover. We rehearse rather than hope: replicate data ahead of time, run the target environment in parallel, validate application behavior and performance against the source, and confirm that integrations, batch jobs, and reporting still work before anything is switched. Discovering at cutover that an overnight interface pointed at a hostname nobody catalogd is the classic and entirely avoidable failure.
Every cutover we run has a written runbook with named owners, a defined validation checklist, a fallback position, and a decision point at which rollback is chosen rather than debated. Database migrations get particular attention, since they usually set the outage window — replication-based approaches keep that window short and let go-live be a business decision rather than an endurance test. Where Oracle estates are involved, the same engineers handle the database work.
Day-two operations and cost control
The cloud bill and the operational burden both arrive after go-live. We run the environment afterwards: patching and lifecycle management, backup and restore verification, monitoring and alerting, access reviews, and the change discipline that stops a tidy landing zone from turning into sprawl within a year. Multi-cloud estates need this more, not less — AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure each have their own conventions, and consistency has to be maintained deliberately.
Cost control is continuous work, not a one-off exercise. Rightsizing against observed utilization, removing orphaned storage and idle resources, matching commitment purchases to genuinely steady demand, scheduling non-production environments off out of hours, and tagging well enough that spend maps to owners. OCI-heavy estates often sit alongside Azure or AWS workloads; for platform-specific engineering on those two, see Azure & AWS cloud.
Common questions
How long does a typical cloud migration take?
It depends far more on application complexity and integration count than on data volume. A contained set of workloads with clean dependencies can move in weeks; an ERP estate with interfaces into a dozen systems is a multi-month programme run in waves. We scope the assessment first precisely so the timeline is based on your inventory rather than an average.
Do we have to move everything at once?
No, and we would usually advise against it. Migrations run in waves, starting with lower-risk workloads to prove the landing zone, network paths, and operational tooling before critical systems follow. That means a hybrid period where on-prem and cloud run together, so network connectivity and identity integration are designed for it from the start.
Can you manage the environment after the migration is finished?
Yes. Ongoing administration across AWS, Azure, and OCI is a service in its own right, and many clients continue straight into it. It can also be handed to your internal team instead — everything we build is documented and transferable, so continuing with us is a choice rather than a dependency.