Cloud Consulting
Architect, migrate, and optimize across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle OCI, and hybrid environments — with security, FinOps, and compliance baked in. Vendor-neutral guidance, fixed-fee delivery, and senior architects who actually own the outcome.
Vendor-neutral & certified
Architects certified across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. We don't resell cloud capacity — every recommendation is independent and measured against your business outcomes.
FinOps from day one
Every architecture decision has a published TCO. Egress, reserved capacity, license rationalization, and idle-resource governance are designed in — not retrofitted after the bill explodes.
Fixed-fee delivery
Scoped engagements quoted as firm fixed prices, benchmarked quarterly against published 2026 rates and consistently positioned ~20% below mid-market consulting medians.
End-to-end cloud delivery — assess, migrate, modernize, optimize
Cloud consulting that doesn't end at the migration deck. Senior architects own each engagement from current-state assessment through cutover, with measurable cost and performance KPIs locked into the SOW.
Cloud assessment & readiness
Application portfolio discovery, dependency mapping, 5R disposition, target landing-zone design, TCO modeling, and a sequenced migration wave plan — typically delivered in 2–4 weeks as a fixed-fee accelerator.
Migration & modernization
Lift-and-shift, replatform, and refactor migrations executed under formal cutover plans with zero-downtime patterns where workloads support it. Database replication, blue/green cutover, and gradual traffic shifting included.
FinOps & cost optimization
Reserved Instance / Savings Plan optimization, sustained-use commitment design, idle resource governance, egress reduction, license rationalization, and chargeback / showback dashboards — typically returning 18–35% in year one.
Cloud security & compliance
Landing zone with CIS-aligned guardrails, IAM and identity federation, encryption-by-default, CSPM tooling, and audit-ready evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, and CMMC.
How does it work?
Engagement begins with a 2–4 week cloud readiness assessment: stakeholder workshops, application discovery via tooling (AWS Migration Hub, Azure Migrate, GCP Migration Center), dependency mapping, and a formal 5R disposition for every workload. The deliverable is a target architecture, a sequenced wave plan, a TCO model, and a fixed-fee migration proposal you and your CFO can approve before any code or contract moves.
From there, migration waves run on 4–8 week cycles depending on complexity. Every wave has a written cutover plan, a rollback path, and a 30-day post-migration optimization sprint locked into the SOW — because lift-and-shift without optimization is just paying cloud prices for on-prem architecture.
Every workload mapped to one of the 6 R's
Not every application belongs in the cloud the same way. We use AWS / Gartner's 6 R's framework to assign each workload an explicit disposition — with documented rationale, target architecture, and TCO impact.
Rehost
"Lift and shift." Move workloads as-is to cloud VMs. Lowest engineering effort, fastest time-to-cutover, modest cost reduction. Best for time-pressured exits from a data center.
Replatform
"Lift, tinker, and shift." Move workloads with targeted modernization — managed databases, autoscaling, managed Kubernetes — without rewriting the application. The most common disposition for mid-market workloads.
Refactor
Re-architect into cloud-native services — serverless, containers, event-driven. Highest engineering effort, highest long-term ROI. Reserved for strategic workloads where modernization unlocks new business capability.
Repurchase
Drop the legacy app and adopt SaaS — Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow. Lower TCO than refactoring, faster time-to-value, and often better functionality than the legacy application provided.
Retire
Decommission applications that no longer serve the business. Typical portfolios discover 8–15% of applications that nobody actively uses — every retired app saves licensing, maintenance, and migration cost.
Retain
Keep on-premises temporarily — usually due to regulatory, latency, or licensing constraints. Documented exit criteria so the workload doesn't quietly sit on-prem for another five years by default.
A structured, repeatable, audit-friendly process
Aligned to AWS Well-Architected Framework, Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, and Google Cloud Architecture Framework — the methodologies your auditors, FinOps team, and procurement will recognize.
Assess
Application discovery, dependency mapping, 5R disposition, TCO modeling, and target architecture design.
Design
Landing zone, network topology, identity federation, security guardrails, and FinOps governance baseline.
Migrate
Wave-based migration with formal cutover plans, rollback paths, and zero-downtime patterns where viable.
Optimize
Right-sizing, commitment optimization, idle-resource cleanup, egress reduction, and observability tuning.
Operate
Runbook handover, FinOps cadence, security continuous-monitoring, and quarterly architecture review.
What we actually deliver — every engagement
Every visual below is drawn from real client deliverables. No demo data, no placeholder dashboards, no copy-paste templates.
Application Disposition & Wave Planning
Every application in your portfolio receives a formal disposition — Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, or Retain — with documented rationale, target landing platform, dependency map, expected TCO delta, and wave assignment. We typically discover 8–15% of applications that can be retired immediately, 30–45% that should be repurchased as SaaS, and 35–50% that genuinely need migration. The disposition matrix becomes the contract for everything that follows.
FinOps & Cost Optimization
Reserved Instance and Savings Plan portfolio design, sustained-use commitment optimization, instance right-sizing, idle-resource governance, S3 lifecycle policies, egress reduction architecture, and license rationalization. We treat cloud cost as a portfolio problem, not a procurement event — typical year-one outcomes return 18–35% of total cloud spend without compromising performance or availability. Quarterly FinOps reviews lock in the savings discipline post-engagement.
Reference Architecture & Landing Zones
Production-grade landing zones with CIS-aligned guardrails, multi-account / multi-subscription topology, identity federation (Okta, Entra ID, Google Workspace), VPC peering and Transit Gateway design, encryption-by-default with KMS-managed keys, and CSPM tooling for continuous compliance posture. Every architecture is documented in living diagrams (Lucidchart, draw.io) and codified in Terraform / Bicep / Deployment Manager — your engineering team owns the IaC from day one.
Infrastructure as Code & CI/CD
Every resource defined in Terraform, Bicep, or Deployment Manager from day one — committed to your Git repositories, owned by your engineering team. Pipeline templates for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, and AWS CodePipeline include automated linting, security scanning (Checkov, tfsec, Snyk), policy-as-code enforcement (OPA, Sentinel), and zero-touch deploy gates. We don't deliver ClickOps environments and we don't keep your IaC hostage in our private repos — you own it from commit one.
Three scenarios where cloud consulting consistently pays for itself
A cloud engagement isn't right for every organization at every moment. Here are the situations where it reliably delivers measurable financial and operational return.
Data center exit or hardware refresh
Lease expiry, end-of-life hardware, capacity exhaustion, or a colo move triggers the question: refresh on-prem or migrate? A structured assessment turns that into a defensible 3-year TCO decision instead of a procurement-driven default.
Cloud bill out of control
You're already in cloud, but spend is growing faster than revenue, your CFO is asking hard questions, and your engineering team doesn't have the bandwidth for FinOps. A focused 90-day optimization sprint typically returns 20–35% with no architecture changes.
M&A or rapid expansion
Acquisition integration, new region launch, regulatory expansion, or a large enterprise customer demanding regional residency. Cloud architecture decisions made under time pressure cost 3–5× more to fix later than to design right the first time.
Scope-driven, fixed-fee engagements
Every cloud engagement is quoted as a firm fixed price after a 60-minute scoping call — there is no public price tier because the cost is driven entirely by your environment: application portfolio size, data volume, target landing-zone complexity, multi-region or multi-cloud scope, and regulatory requirements (HIPAA, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, CMMC). We benchmark our quotes quarterly against published 2026 rates from EPC Group, Avanade, SquareOps, Veritis, Codebridge, Blazeclan, Corsica, and TechCloudPro, and price our engagements approximately 20% below the mid-market median. Ask for our scope-comparison worksheet — we'll send it with your quote so you can validate the benchmark for yourself.
Frequently asked questions
The questions we get most from CTOs, CIOs, and infrastructure leaders evaluating cloud partners. Talk to a senior cloud architect for anything else.
Are you tied to one cloud provider, or genuinely vendor-neutral?
How long does a typical cloud assessment take?
How long does a typical migration take?
Will migration disrupt production?
What about data egress fees during migration?
Do you handle compliance — HIPAA, PCI, FedRAMP, CMMC?
What certifications do your cloud architects hold?
What does a cloud consulting engagement cost?
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See exactly what you receive — an anonymized application disposition matrix, target reference architecture, TCO model, and wave plan from a real engagement.
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