Cloud & Data
Cloud Solutions
Cloud architecture, migration, and cost engineering across AWS, Azure, and GCP — landing zones your auditors approve of and bills your CFO can predict.
Overview
Why it matters
The cloud question has changed. It is no longer 'should we move?' but 'why does it cost this much, why did that migration stall, and why does every team do it differently?' A decade into enterprise cloud adoption, the common estate is a hybrid sprawl: some workloads lifted-and-shifted and never optimized, some born-in-cloud, some stuck on-premises behind dependencies nobody has mapped — and a bill that grows faster than the business it supports. Industry surveys consistently find around 30% of cloud spend is wasted.
Our cloud practice deals in that reality. We design and build the foundational layer — landing zones with account structure, network topology, identity, and guardrails as code — that makes every subsequent workload faster and safer to deploy. We run migrations with an honest 7R disposition per application (rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, retain, repurchase, relocate), because 'lift and shift everything' and 'refactor everything' are both usually wrong. And we treat cost as an engineering discipline: FinOps practices with unit economics, not a quarterly panic about the invoice.
We are certified partners across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and deliberately multi-cloud in competence — recommendations are driven by your workload profile, existing estate, and commercial position, not by our margin with any vendor.
Business challenges
The problems this practice exists to solve
Cloud spend growing faster than value
Overprovisioned instances, orphaned storage, idle non-production environments running weekends, and zero cost attribution by team or product. The bill rises; nobody can say why.
Migrations that stall at 40%
The easy workloads moved; the coupled, undocumented, compliance-bound ones remain. The program is now paying for a datacenter and a cloud, with the business case underwater.
Every team its own cloud
No landing zone, no shared guardrails: each team invents its own networking, identity, and security posture. Auditors find a different answer in every account.
Resilience assumed, never tested
Single-AZ deployments, backup jobs nobody restores from, and DR plans that exist as documents rather than rehearsed procedures — discovered during the outage, not before.
Our solution
How we engineer it
We start with the foundation. A landing zone — multi-account structure, hub-and-spoke networking, centralized identity with least-privilege roles, encryption and logging defaults, and policy-as-code guardrails — built entirely in Terraform so it is reviewable, repeatable, and auditable. This is the highest-leverage cloud investment an enterprise makes: with it, new workloads inherit compliance instead of reinventing it.
Migration then proceeds by disposition, not dogma. We assess the portfolio, map dependencies (including the undocumented ones — we discover them with traffic analysis, not interviews alone), and assign each application a 7R strategy with a costed business case. Waves are sequenced to retire datacenter capacity in economically meaningful chunks, cutovers are rehearsed with rollback plans, and the stall-prone tail of coupled legacy systems gets architectural attention early, not last.
Cost engineering runs through everything: right-sizing from actual utilization data, commitment strategy (reserved instances, savings plans) tuned to workload stability, storage lifecycle policies, non-production scheduling, and Kubernetes bin-packing where containers dominate. More fundamentally, we install FinOps as a practice — cost allocation by team and product, unit-economics dashboards (cost per order, per customer, per transaction), and anomaly alerts — so optimization is continuous, not a one-time project that decays.
Capabilities
What cloud solutions covers
Cloud architecture & landing zones
Multi-account foundations with network topology, identity, encryption defaults, and policy-as-code guardrails — built in Terraform, reviewed with your security function.
Migration & modernization
Portfolio assessment with 7R dispositions, dependency mapping, wave planning, rehearsed cutovers, and the architectural work that unsticks the coupled legacy tail.
Kubernetes & container platforms
EKS, AKS, and GKE platforms with autoscaling, workload identity, service mesh where justified, and multi-tenancy guardrails — sized for your team's operational maturity.
FinOps & cost optimization
Right-sizing, commitment strategy, cost allocation, unit-economics dashboards, and anomaly detection — typically recovering 25–40% of spend in the first two quarters.
Resilience & disaster recovery
Multi-AZ and multi-region architectures matched to real RTO/RPO requirements, chaos testing, and DR runbooks that get rehearsed — not filed.
Hybrid & sovereign cloud
Hybrid connectivity, data-residency architectures, and sovereign-cloud patterns for regulated workloads that cannot simply move — designed to converge, not calcify.
Technology stack
Tools we deploy to production every week
Pragmatic about tools, opinionated about architecture — the platforms below are the ones this practice ships with, chosen per engagement on evidence.
Platforms
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- VMware / hybrid estates
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- Pulumi
- CloudFormation
- Crossplane
Containers & Runtime
- Kubernetes (EKS / AKS / GKE)
- Docker
- Helm
- Istio
- Karpenter
Operations & Cost
- Datadog
- Grafana / Prometheus
- CloudHealth
- Kubecost
- AWS Cost Explorer
Implementation process
Five stages. No surprises.
A delivery model refined over 250+ engagements — sequenced so leadership gets visibility and your teams get momentum.
Estate assessment
Portfolio inventory, dependency mapping, cost baseline, and compliance requirements — producing 7R dispositions and a business case your CFO can interrogate.
Foundation build
Landing zone in Terraform: accounts, networking, identity, guardrails, logging, and cost allocation — the paved road every migrated workload will use.
Migration waves
Pilot wave first to validate tooling and runbooks, then sequenced waves with rehearsed cutovers, rollback plans, and datacenter capacity retired on schedule.
Optimization pass
Post-migration right-sizing from real utilization, commitment purchases, storage lifecycle policies, and architecture refinements the migration exposed.
FinOps & operating model
Cost dashboards, unit economics, anomaly alerting, and platform-team enablement — cloud economics as a continuous practice owned by your organization.
Use cases
Where enterprises apply it
Datacenter exit
Full estate migration ahead of a lease expiry or hardware refresh — sequenced so capacity retires in chunks that actually cut cost.
Cloud cost recovery program
A focused FinOps engagement on an existing estate: right-sizing, commitments, scheduling, and allocation — often self-funding within a quarter.
Landing zone & platform foundation
A compliant multi-account foundation for an organization scaling its cloud usage — before sprawl becomes the audit finding.
Kubernetes platform consolidation
Rationalizing a zoo of self-managed clusters onto a governed, autoscaled platform with tenancy, observability, and cost visibility.
AI-ready infrastructure
GPU capacity strategy, inference serving platforms, and data locality architecture for enterprises putting AI workloads into production.
Regulated workload architecture
Data-residency, encryption, and audit architectures for workloads under HIPAA, PCI DSS, GDPR, or financial-services regulation.
Outcomes
Results clients report to their boards
38%
cloud spend reduction in two quarters for a retail client, at higher availability
200+
applications migrated in a single datacenter-exit program, zero missed cutover windows
15 min
from request to compliant, network-connected new environment on the landing zone
99.99%
availability sustained on re-architected tier-1 workloads
FAQs
Questions leaders ask us
Direct answers on cloud solutions — the same ones we give in the first consultation.
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