A cloud migration assesses what you run and how components depend on each other, chooses a strategy per workload — rehost, replatform or rebuild — then moves in stages with data synchronised until cutover. Each stage is rehearsed and reversible, so a problem means rollback rather than an outage.
Dependencies are what bite
Migrations fail on the things nobody documented: a cron job on a forgotten server, a hardcoded IP address, a licence tied to hardware, a report that reads a database directly. These surface at cutover, at the worst possible moment, unless they are found during assessment.
So the assessment phase is not a formality. We map every dependency, including the ones the current team has forgotten, and rehearse the cutover on a copy before doing it for real.
Process
How we deliver it
Process flow for Cloud migration
01
Assess and map
Every workload, dependency and undocumented integration.
02
Choose per workload
Rehost, replatform or rebuild — decided individually.
03
Build the target
Networking, security, backup and monitoring first.
04
Rehearse the cutover
Full dry run on copied data, with timings.
05
Cut over and verify
Staged switch, monitored, with rollback ready.
Deliverables
What you receive
Dependency map and migration plan per workload
Configured target environment with security baseline
Rehearsal results and a timed cutover runbook
Tested rollback procedure
Post-migration cost report against the pre-migration baseline
Engagement shape
Eight to twenty-four weeks depending on estate size. The assessment is available as a standalone first phase.
Stack decisions follow the problem. This is where we usually start, not a fixed menu.
Frequently asked
Questions we get about this
How much downtime should we expect?
For most business applications, minutes rather than hours, using replication and a planned cutover window. Zero-downtime is achievable for some architectures and expensive for others. We give you a realistic figure after the assessment rather than a comfortable one before it.
Will our costs go down?
Sometimes, and sometimes not. Cloud can cost more than depreciated on-premise hardware if lifted without rearchitecting. We model projected cost during assessment so the decision is made with a number rather than an assumption.
Talk it through before you commit
A discovery call is a working session on your constraint, not a sales pitch.
