Cloud Consulting

Cloud provider selection

We turn your workloads and constraints into a comparison across providers: services needed, data location, support, skills and three-year running cost, with a written recommendation.

A corridor of server racks in a data center

Who it is for

Companies choosing a first cloud provider, or a second one for cost, data location or resilience.

Duration
Agreed on the first call
Price
Agreed in writing before we start
You receive
5 written deliverables
Can lead to
Cloud platforms

The situation

Choose between Zoho Catalyst, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and E2E Networks on evidence

Every provider offers credits and a demo. The real differences in pricing, data location, support and skills only show after the contract is signed.

What you get

  • Requirements and constraints: workloads, data location, compliance and skills
  • Side-by-side comparison of the shortlisted providers
  • Running-cost model for the workloads in scope
  • Written recommendation with the reasons and the risks
  • Questions to put to each provider before you sign

What we need from you

  • A workload list and your current hosting costs
  • Any regulatory or data-location requirements

If you go ahead

How the follow-on work runs

This engagement covers the first stages of the plan below. You decide whether to continue once you have the deliverables.

We inventory every server, application, network rule, backup job and monthly cost, including the systems nobody remembers setting up.

What happens

  • Workload and dependency inventory
  • Access and backup review
  • Current cost breakdown

What you get

  • Workload inventory
  • Risk list
  • Cost baseline

What we need from you

  • Admin access to current servers and hosting accounts
  • Contact with application owners

Risk handled

Moving a system without knowing what depends on it.

We design the target accounts, networks, identity, backup and failover on the provider that fits, with a monthly running-cost estimate.

Gate: Nothing moves until the target design and running cost are signed off.

What happens

  • Provider fit check
  • Landing-zone design
  • Cost model

What you get

  • Target architecture document
  • Running-cost estimate
  • Migration wave plan

What we need from you

  • Sign-off on the design, the budget and any data-location rules

Risk handled

A cloud bill nobody expected.

We write the infrastructure as code, package the applications and build the deployment pipeline, so every environment can be rebuilt the same way.

What happens

  • Terraform and container setup
  • CI/CD pipeline
  • Secrets and access setup

What you get

  • Version-controlled infrastructure
  • Working staging environment

What we need from you

  • Application credentials and vendor contacts

Risk handled

Environments that drift apart and cannot be rebuilt.

We load-test staging and simulate failures of servers, databases and networks to prove backups, failover and alerts actually work.

What happens

  • Load and failover tests
  • Restore drills
  • Fix sprints

What you get

  • Test report
  • Tested restore procedure

What we need from you

  • Key users to check their applications in staging

Risk handled

Backups that have never been restored.

We replicate data, switch traffic in an agreed window and keep a rollback path open until the new setup is confirmed.

What happens

  • Data replication
  • Traffic switch
  • Rollback rehearsal

What you get

  • Live production on the new platform
  • Signed cutover checklist

What we need from you

  • An agreed change window and a short data-entry freeze if needed

Risk handled

Downtime during trading hours.

We patch, monitor, back up and review spend every month, and fix the root cause of repeat alerts.

What happens

  • Patching and monitoring
  • Backup checks
  • Monthly cost review

What you get

  • Monthly operations and cost report
  • Runbooks

What we need from you

  • Named contacts for escalation

Risk handled

Costs and risk creeping up after the project team leaves.

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