Lift and shift is not a cloud strategy. Moving VMs to the cloud without rethinking the architecture means you're paying cloud prices for on-premises performance. Real cloud engineering means understanding what managed services to adopt, what to re-architect, and what to leave alone - then executing that plan without disrupting the business.
What we deliver
Cloud architecture and design. We design cloud-native architectures that take advantage of managed services, event-driven patterns, and elastic scaling where it makes sense. App Services, Functions, Container Apps, Service Bus, Event Hubs, API Management - we choose services based on your actual requirements, not what's newest.
Migration planning and execution. We assess existing workloads, classify them by migration strategy (rehost, replatform, refactor, rebuild), and execute in phases with rollback plans. We've migrated complex enterprise platforms with zero downtime and no data loss.
Infrastructure as code. Everything we deploy is defined in Terraform, Bicep, or Pulumi - version-controlled, peer-reviewed, and repeatable. No portal-clicking, no undocumented changes, no configuration drift.
Cost optimisation. Cloud costs spiral when nobody's watching. We implement resource tagging, right-sizing, reserved instance planning, and automated scaling policies. We set up cost alerts and dashboards so you can see exactly where money is going and why.
Networking and security. Private endpoints, VNet integration, NSGs, WAF, Front Door, DNS architecture. We design network topologies that meet your security and compliance requirements without making development unnecessarily painful.
Platforms we work with
We work primarily with Azure - App Services, Functions, AKS, Container Apps, SQL Database, Cosmos DB, Storage, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Key Vault, Entra ID, and the full Azure PaaS estate. We also work with AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, SQS, API Gateway) and GCP where clients require it.
How we engage
Cloud migration projects typically start with a 2-week assessment: cataloguing workloads, identifying dependencies, estimating effort, and producing a phased migration plan with clear business cases for each phase. Migration execution runs in sprints with continuous validation.
For greenfield cloud projects, we embed with your team from architecture through to production, ensuring knowledge transfer at every stage.