Assessment and migration planning
Review workloads, connectivity, identity, data dependencies and operational requirements. Compare practical migration options, sequence the work and identify what needs to change before a workload moves.
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Move to the cloud. Keep control of the journey.
Assess your current workloads, establish the foundations and migrate in sensible stages. Bring application dependencies, access, operations and cost into the plan from the beginning.
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- Current workloads
- Controlled migration
- Cloud operations
Typical starting points
When it’s time to make a change.
- Current workloads
- Migration waves
- Cloud operations
- A migration programme lacks a reliable workload and dependency inventory.
- Cloud environments are inconsistent and difficult to reproduce.
- Platform ownership, monitoring or operating costs need a clearer baseline.
What we can scope
A practical scope, shaped to your systems.
- Current state
- Agreed boundaries
- Delivery plan
Cloud foundations and infrastructure
Define landing zones, access boundaries, network patterns and infrastructure automation. Include environment separation, logging and ownership so that the platform has a clear operating model.
Migration and operational engineering
Migrate agreed workloads, engineer container platforms where suitable, and validate application behaviour. Add observability and review resource use against an agreed baseline rather than promising a fixed saving.
Concrete outputs
Know what you will receive.
- Code & configuration
- Checks & decisions
- Runbooks & handover
- Workload inventory and dependency assessment
- Target architecture and migration wave plan
- Version-controlled infrastructure definitions
- Validation evidence and cutover/rollback runbooks
- Monitoring, ownership and cost-review baseline
Technology in context
Azure and AWS, Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Docker and Kubernetes are supported by the supplied capability context. Specific services depend on workload needs and the team selected. Formal cloud partnerships are not implied.
Proposed delivery sequence
A controlled path from assessment to ownership.
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Assess
Inventory workloads, risks and business dependencies.
- Map dependencies
- Compare options
- Decide next phase
Agreed decisions. Visible progress. Documented ownership.
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Prepare
Establish the target platform and access model.
- Current state
- Agreed boundaries
- Delivery plan
Agreed decisions. Visible progress. Documented ownership.
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Prove
Validate an initial workload and rehearse the cutover.
- User need
- Build & validate
- Working application
Agreed decisions. Visible progress. Documented ownership.
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Migrate
Move agreed waves with explicit checkpoints.
- Acceptance checks
- Staged rollout
- Operational owner
Agreed decisions. Visible progress. Documented ownership.
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Operate
Review observability, cost and ownership; hand over.
- Code & configuration
- Checks & decisions
- Runbooks & handover
Agreed decisions. Visible progress. Documented ownership.
Common questions
Plan with a
clearer picture.
- Your context
- Open questions
- Clear next step
Do we need to move every workload?
No. Assessment should identify suitable migration candidates and explain when retaining or changing a workload is more sensible. The plan follows business requirements, dependencies and operating constraints.
Can you guarantee zero downtime?
Availability requirements need a workload-specific design and test plan. We agree acceptable interruption, data consistency checks and rollback conditions before cutover rather than making a blanket availability promise.
Can you improve an existing Azure or AWS environment?
Yes. A defined engagement can address infrastructure automation, container platforms, observability or platform consistency without requiring a full migration. We agree a measurable baseline and the limits of the work.
What happens after migration?
Handover includes operational responsibilities, infrastructure definitions, known exceptions and runbooks. Continuing support or platform improvement can be scoped separately, with service hours and targets agreed explicitly.
A clear next step
Map a practical route to your cloud environment.
Discuss your current hosting, critical workloads and the operational requirements for a controlled migration.