Cloud migration services planned around the monthly bill

Companies usually come to us for cloud migration services when something forces the issue. A hosting contract is ending, a server room lease is up, or a VMware renewal quote arrived far higher than the last one after Broadcom's licensing changes. Sometimes it's simpler: the one person who understood the on-premises servers is retiring. We work with mid-sized US companies moving anywhere from a handful of servers to a few hundred workloads onto AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud.

The expensive mistake is treating the cloud like a rented data center. Teams lift every virtual machine as-is, size them to match old hardware, leave them running 24/7, and then watch the bill come in higher than the colocation invoice it replaced. The opposite mistake hurts too. Some teams decide to re-architect everything into microservices at once, and eighteen months later half the apps still haven't moved. Poor network planning, forgotten dependencies between systems and backups nobody tested round out the list.

We assess each workload and give it a plain recommendation. Stable apps with no roadmap often get rehosted as-is, then rightsized once we see real usage. Databases usually move to managed services like Azure SQL or Amazon RDS, which removes patching work. Apps you're actively developing may justify replatforming to containers or serverless. Everything lands in a landing zone built with Terraform, with identity, networking, tagging and budgets set up before the first workload arrives. Cutovers are rehearsed, and rollback plans are written down.

Migrating a small environment of 10–30 servers typically takes 6–12 weeks. Larger estates with complex dependencies run 4–9 months in waves. After the move, rightsizing, savings plans or reservations and scheduled shutdowns for non-production often bring costs down noticeably, and we keep watching the bill for the first few months.