Service

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS and GCP landing zones, migration from on-premise, and the platform work that makes cloud spend predictable.

Overview

What this service is.

Cloud migration goes wrong in two predictable ways. Either everything is lifted and shifted unchanged, and the bill arrives three times larger than the data centre it replaced. Or the landing zone is built without guardrails, and eighteen months later nobody can say which account owns which workload.

We build landing zones first — account structure, network topology, identity, logging, cost allocation and policy guardrails — then migrate workloads into them in waves. The result is infrastructure your team can operate, with spend attributable to the teams that generate it.

The problem

What usually brings people to us.

If several of these sound familiar, this is the service that addresses them.

The cloud bill grows every month and nobody can attribute it to a team or a product.

A lift-and-shift migration moved the problems to a more expensive place.

Production access is granted by ticket because there is no real identity or role model.

Environments drift, because they were created by hand and never codified.

Disaster recovery is a document nobody has tested.

Regulated workloads need to stay in-country and the current setup cannot prove that they do.

Scope & deliverables

What you actually receive.

Landing zone

Multi-account structure, network topology, identity federation, centralised logging and policy guardrails, all defined as code.

Migration plan & waves

Application inventory with a disposition per workload — rehost, replatform, refactor, retire — sequenced by risk and dependency.

Infrastructure as code

Terraform modules for every environment, with no click-ops path to production.

Container platform

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE) with ingress, autoscaling, secrets management and deployment pipelines.

Observability baseline

Metrics, logs, traces and actionable alerts, wired before migration rather than after the first incident.

FinOps & cost model

Tagging strategy, budgets, showback per team and a right-sizing pass with a documented saving.

DR & runbooks

Backup, restore and failover procedures, tested rather than merely written.

Tech stack

What we build it with.

We pick from a deliberately boring toolkit. Novelty is a cost you pay in maintenance.

Cloud
AWSGoogle CloudAzure
IaC & config
TerraformTerragruntAnsibleHelm
Containers
KubernetesEKSGKEDockerArgoCD
Observability
PrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryDatadogCloudWatch
Security
IAMAWS OrganizationsVaultTrivyFalco
Process

How the engagement runs.

01

Assessment

Application inventory, dependency mapping, current-state cost baseline and a migration disposition per workload.

02

Landing zone

Account structure, network, identity and guardrails built as code — before any workload moves.

03

Pilot wave

Two or three low-risk workloads migrated end to end to prove the pattern and the runbook.

04

Migration waves

Remaining workloads moved in dependency order, each with a tested rollback.

05

Optimise & hand over

Right-sizing, reserved capacity planning, cost allocation and platform handover to your team.

Related case studies

Where we have done this before.

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