Cloud Migration
Cloud migrations done badly cost more, not less — lift-and-shift moves on-prem problems to the cloud at three times the bill, FinOps doesn't get attention until the third surprise invoice, and identity gets bolted on at the end. We've run migrations across AWS, Azure, and GCP for organizations from community banks to AmLaw firms to defense subcontractors.
Overview
Cloud Migration: practical, senior-led delivery.
The Pressure
The cloud was supposed to cut cost and add agility — done badly, it does the opposite.
- Lift-and-shift inflates the bill — moving on-prem workloads unchanged can triple the run-rate while solving none of the underlying problems.
- FinOps is an afterthought — cost discipline rarely gets attention until the third surprise invoice, by which point the waste is already baked in.
- Identity gets bolted on last — access and segmentation designed after the migration leave gaps that auditors and attackers both find.
- Dependencies surface mid-cutover — undocumented application dependencies turn a clean migration into an outage on go-live night.
- Compliance follows the data — regulated workloads carry sector obligations (HIPAA, CMMC, PCI, state privacy) that don't pause for a migration.
The Gap
Most migration help is either a tooling vendor or a generalist who has never owned the outcome.
- Tool-led, not outcome-led — migration factories optimize for workloads moved, not for what they cost or whether they're secure afterward.
- No FinOps discipline — without tagging, right-sizing, and commitment planning from day one, the savings case never materializes.
- Generic landing zones — a templated foundation that ignores your identity, networking, and compliance reality only creates rework later.
- Big-bang risk — migrations run without waves and validated rollback put the whole estate on the line at once.
- Documentation that goes stale — diagrams handed over at close that nobody can maintain leave your team worse off than before.
How We Help
Senior engineers who have run migrations across AWS, Azure, and GCP — sequenced in waves, costed from day one, and secured by design.
- Right approach per workload — lift-and-shift, re-platform, refactor, hybrid, or repatriation, chosen workload by workload instead of one blanket strategy.
- FinOps from day one — tagging, reserved capacity, savings plans, and idle-resource cleanup built in so the cost case is real.
- Secure landing zone — networking, identity, segmentation, and observability designed in up front, not bolted on at the end.
- Wave-based execution — discovery, dependency mapping, and sequenced waves with validated rollback and parallel operations through cutover.
- Maintainable handover — runbooks your team can actually keep current, with optional day-2 operations through our Cloud Operations practice.
You land in the cloud on a foundation that's cheaper to run, secure by design, and documented well enough to operate — whether you're moving a handful of workloads or the whole estate. We pair with our Cloud Operations, Identity Operations, and Disaster Recovery services when the migration is the start of a longer modernization.
Capabilities
What we deliver
Discovery & Wave Planning
Application inventory, dependencies, sequencing into migration waves with rollback plans.
Target Architecture
Landing zone, networking, identity, security, observability foundations.
Migration Execution
Wave-by-wave migration with cutover planning, parallel operations, validated rollback.
Cost Optimization
FinOps from day one — tagging, reserved capacity, savings plans, idle resource cleanup.
Documentation
Runbooks your team can actually maintain — not just diagrams that go stale.
Day-2 Operations
Optional ongoing operations through Cloud Operations practice.
Move to the cloud without breaking things
Let's talk about your migration roadmap or specific workload moves.