Cloud assessment
Map accounts, spend, identity, and risk — with a sequenced plan before anyone lifts workloads.
SCALE CLOUD/PLATFORM
Cloud Solutions
Cloud migration, multi-account landing zones, cost optimization, and platform engineering on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Overview
How we approach cloud solutions.
Cloud projects fail when landing zones, identity, and cost controls are bolted on after the first production surprise. We design account structure, IaC, and security baselines as the foundation — then migrate or modernize in sequenced slices.
The goal is a platform your people own: observable, backed up, and cost-aware. Partner tribal knowledge is not an acceptable operating model when invoices and incidents arrive at 2 a.m.
The point
Cloud that scales with the product instead of surprising finance every month.
Deliverables
Concrete platforms, not just migrations.
Every engagement leaves your team with a cloud foundation that is secure, cost-aware, and owned by your people — not locked in a partner’s head.
- Landing zone design and account/org structure
- Migration or modernization plan with sequencing
- Infrastructure as code and environment documentation
- Cost, security, and identity baselines
- Observability, backups, and disaster recovery notes
- Runbooks, ownership map, and handover checklist
Engagement Model
Assess the estate, build a landing zone, migrate in slices, or keep platform support.
Landing zone
Org structure, IaC baselines, networking, and security guardrails your teams can build on.
Migration slices
Move or modernize applications in production-safe increments with rollback and cost checkpoints.
Platform support
Ongoing hardening, FinOps reviews, and DR drills so the foundation doesn’t drift.
Timeline
From landing zone and identity to sequenced, owned cutovers.
Week 1
Estate map and constraints
Inventory accounts, identity, compliance, and spend. Agree non-negotiables before architecture spreads.
Weeks 2–4
Landing zone and IaC
Stand up org structure, baselines, environments, and the first app path through the new foundation.
Weeks 5–10
Migrate and harden
Slice migrations, wire observability and backups, and review cost against forecasts.
Handover
Ownership and DR readiness
Runbooks, ownership map, and a disaster-recovery exercise your team can repeat.
What we need from you
Cloud access and constraints that keep migrations safe.
Org admin paths, compliance rules, and app owners beat a vague “move everything to the cloud” mandate.
- Cloud org/billing access or a path to create a clean landing zone
- Identity provider and SSO ownership for baseline design
- Compliance, residency, and encryption requirements in writing
- Application owners for each migration candidate
- Current spend reports and known pain (outages, tickets, surprises)
Common mistakes we help avoid
Cloud mistakes that create expensive, fragile estates.
We structure work so these don’t become your operating reality.
- Lifting workloads with no landing zone, identity, or IaC baseline
- Treating cost as a finance problem after production is live
- No backup/DR story until the first real incident
- Leaving networking and secrets knowledge only in a partner’s head
- Big-bang cutovers with no rollback rehearsal
FAQs
Answers before we get on a call.
AWS, Azure, or GCP?+
We work across the major clouds and recommend based on your skills, contracts, and workload — not a single preferred logo.
Do you rewrite apps during migration?+
Only when it earns the outcome. Many moves are rehost or replatform first; deeper modernization follows in funded slices.
How do you control cloud spend?+
Budgets, tagging, right-sizing, and reviews baked into milestones — FinOps as delivery hygiene, not an after-the-fact report.
Will our team own the infrastructure?+
Yes. IaC, docs, and runbooks are yours. We don’t design platforms that only we can operate.