Cloud Engineering Services for Scalable, Secure Growth

We conduct a comprehensive cloud readiness assessment that evaluates your current infrastructure, applications, dependencies, team capabilities, and business objectives. This includes technical analysis (architecture review, application portfolio assessment), business analysis (cost-benefit, ROI modeling), and risk assessment (security, compliance, operational). We provide a detailed report with cloud maturity scoring, migration roadmap, TCO analysis, and prioritized recommendations. This assessment typically takes 2-4 weeks and helps determine the optimal cloud strategy for your specific situation.

Lift-and-shift (rehost) moves applications to cloud with minimal changes, offering fastest migration but limited cloud benefits. Re-platform makes minor cloud optimizations (managed databases, container deployment) balancing speed and modernization. Re-architect (refactor) redesigns applications as cloud-native microservices, maximizing cloud benefits but requiring more time and investment. We typically use a combination: lift-and-shift for legacy apps, re-platform for moderate updates, and re-architect for core business applications. The choice depends on application criticality, technical debt, business value, and timeline constraints.

We employ multiple strategies for minimal downtime migrations: phased migration approach (migrate in stages), database replication (keep source and target in sync), blue-green deployments (switch traffic after validation), canary releases (gradual traffic shifting), DNS-based cutover (instant switchover capability), and automated rollback procedures. For critical systems, we use hybrid operation during transition, allowing simultaneous on-premise and cloud operation. We conduct extensive testing, have detailed runbooks, and schedule migration windows during low-traffic periods. Most migrations achieve under 1 hour of planned downtime, with many achieving true zero-downtime.

Cost savings vary based on current infrastructure and optimization strategies. Typical savings range from 20-50% through: eliminating upfront hardware costs, paying only for resources used, leveraging reserved instances (30-70% discount), using spot instances (60-90% discount), auto-scaling to match demand, and reduced operational overhead. However, unoptimized cloud can cost more than on-premise. Our FinOps approach includes rightsizing resources, implementing auto-scaling, choosing optimal pricing models, eliminating waste, and continuous cost monitoring. We provide detailed TCO analysis comparing current state vs optimized cloud costs, typically showing positive ROI within 12-24 months.

We implement defense-in-depth security: network security (VPC isolation, security groups, WAF), identity management (least privilege IAM, MFA, SSO), data protection (encryption at rest and transit, key management), application security (container scanning, SAST/DAST), monitoring (CloudTrail, GuardDuty, SIEM integration), compliance automation (policy as code, automated auditing), incident response (playbooks, automated remediation), and regular security assessments. We follow CIS benchmarks, NIST frameworks, and cloud provider best practices. All implementations include security monitoring, threat detection, and 24/7 incident response capabilities.

Yes, we design and implement multi-cloud (AWS + Azure + GCP) and hybrid cloud (on-premise + cloud) strategies. Multi-cloud offers vendor diversity, best-of-breed services, geographic coverage, and disaster recovery across providers. Hybrid cloud enables gradual migration, regulatory compliance, low-latency local access, and leverage existing investments. We implement unified identity management, cross-cloud networking, consistent security policies, centralized monitoring, and infrastructure as code for consistency. We help determine optimal workload placement, manage complexity, and provide tools for unified management across environments.

For regulated industries (healthcare, finance, government), we implement comprehensive compliance programs: architecture design meeting regulatory requirements (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, FedRAMP), automated compliance monitoring and reporting, audit trail and logging for all activities, data residency and sovereignty controls, encryption and access controls, regular security assessments and penetration testing, compliance documentation and evidence collection, and staff training on compliance requirements. We work with your compliance team and auditors, maintain up-to-date knowledge of regulatory changes, and provide compliance dashboards showing real-time posture.

We offer tiered managed services: Basic Support (business hours monitoring, incident response, monthly reviews), Standard Support (24/7 monitoring, proactive optimization, security patching, quarterly business reviews), Premium Support (24/7 dedicated team, SLA commitments, continuous optimization, executive reporting), and Custom Enterprise Support (embedded cloud engineers, strategic planning, innovation workshops). All tiers include monitoring and alerting, incident management, backup management, security updates, and cost optimization reviews. We use ticketing systems, on-call rotations, and escalation procedures. Support can be fully managed or co-managed based on your team's capabilities.

Migration timelines vary significantly: Simple migrations (1-10 servers, basic applications) take 1-3 months, Medium complexity (10-50 servers, multiple applications, some dependencies) take 3-6 months, Large enterprise migrations (50+ servers, complex applications, extensive integrations) take 6-18 months, and Legacy system modernization can take 12-24+ months. Timeline depends on application complexity, data volume, testing requirements, business constraints, and team availability. We use phased approaches with quick wins (migrate simple workloads first) and parallel migrations to reduce overall timeline. Assessment phase alone takes 2-4 weeks to accurately scope project.

Yes, we provide comprehensive cloud training programs: Architecture training (cloud design patterns, best practices, security), Operations training (monitoring, incident response, cost management), Development training (cloud-native development, CI/CD, containers), Security training (IAM, compliance, threat detection), FinOps training (cost optimization, budgeting, forecasting), and Platform-specific training (AWS, Azure, GCP certifications). Training formats include hands-on workshops, documentation and runbooks, knowledge transfer sessions, certification preparation, lunch-and-learns, and ongoing mentoring. Goal is enabling your team to independently manage cloud infrastructure with our support as needed.