Infrastructure
Cloud Migration & Infrastructure
Moving to the cloud is not just a technical project, it is an operational one. Done well, it reduces costs, improves reliability and gives your team far more flexibility. Done poorly, it creates new problems on top of the old ones and leaves you paying for infrastructure you do not understand.
We plan cloud migrations carefully, migrate in a way that keeps the business running throughout, and build infrastructure that is properly documented and manageable long after we are gone. We work across AWS, Azure and GCP, and we will tell you honestly which one fits your situation rather than defaulting to whichever we know best.
What's included
- Cloud readiness assessment to understand what you are working with and identify the best migration approach
- Migration strategy and phased planning that keeps your services running and your team calm throughout
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC) so your environments are reproducible, auditable and not dependent on anyone's memory
- Container orchestration with Kubernetes or managed equivalents for workloads that need to scale reliably
- Multi-cloud and hybrid solutions for organisations with specific data residency, compliance or resilience requirements
- Cloud security configuration, including least-privilege access, encryption at rest and in transit, and network segmentation
Key Benefits
- Lower and more predictable infrastructure costs compared to on-premises equivalents
- Infrastructure that scales with demand rather than requiring capacity decisions months in advance
- Stronger disaster recovery posture with recovery times measured in minutes rather than hours or days
- A security configuration you can demonstrate to auditors, customers and regulators with confidence
- Your team freed from infrastructure maintenance to focus on work that actually differentiates the business
FAQs
We start with your requirements, not our preferences. We look at your existing workloads, compliance obligations, data residency requirements and the skills your team already has. AWS, Azure and GCP all have genuine strengths in different situations, and the right answer depends on your specific context. We will give you an honest recommendation and explain the reasoning behind it; including where the trade-offs lie.
When nothing lends itself towards any particular provider, we'll tend to opt for AWS; this is our provider of choice and allows us to get up-and-running much quicker.
In most cases, no. We plan migrations in phases specifically to keep your services running throughout. Where some downtime is unavoidable (a database cutover, for example) we schedule it to minimise impact and communicate it clearly in advance. The goal is that your users barely notice the change happened.
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) means your cloud environments are defined in version-controlled files rather than configured by hand through a console. Practically, this means your infrastructure is reproducible, auditable and not dependent on any one person's memory of how it was set up. If something breaks, you can rebuild it. If an auditor asks how your environment is configured, you can show them. We use tools like SST, Terraform and Pulumi depending on your stack.
Security is built into the migration plan, not bolted on afterwards. We implement least-privilege access controls, encryption in transit and at rest, and network segmentation from the start. For organisations with specific compliance requirements (GDPR, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials) we align the architecture to those requirements and make sure you have the documentation to demonstrate it. As a UK-based team, we understand data residency obligations and can keep your data within the right jurisdictions.
Yes. Where relevant, of our engagements start with a cloud readiness assessment of existing infrastructure. We map what you have, identify what is working well and what is creating risk or unnecessary cost, and recommend improvements that can be made incrementally. You do not need to start from scratch - in most cases it makes more sense to build on what you have.
We work on time-and-materials or fixed-scope arrangements depending on what makes sense for the engagement. For early-stage discovery and exploratory work, time-and-materials gives you the flexibility to change direction as you learn. For well-defined deliverables where the scope is clear, a fixed-price statement of work gives you budget certainty. We will recommend the model that protects your interests, not just the one that is easier for us.
Yes. While we are based in Manchester and work closely with businesses across the North West, we work with clients across the UK and further afield. Most of our work is delivered remotely, with on-site visits for the sessions where being in the room actually matters — typically discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews and key decision points.
Security is not a phase at the end of a project — it is part of how we work throughout. We hold Cyber Essentials accreditation and our team has a background in defence and high-security environments, so secure-by-default thinking is genuinely embedded in how we approach architecture, code and data handling. For clients with specific compliance requirements, we can align our delivery to ISO 27001, GDPR, JOSCAR or other relevant frameworks.
We start with a free consultation to understand your situation and work out whether we are a good fit for each other. If we move forward, the first formal phase is discovery: structured workshops and conversations to understand your goals, constraints, existing systems and the people involved. At the end of discovery you get a clear picture of what we are recommending and why. We'll provide you with enough information to make an informed decision about next steps, with no obligation to continue if it is not the right time.
That being said, we know that no two projects are the same, so we'll always work with you to work out what fits best!