Cloud Services
Cloud Architecture, Migration and Cost Review
Moving to the cloud does not automatically make things cheaper, faster or safer. Without a design, it can produce a higher monthly bill and a wider attack surface. The value comes from the architecture, not the migration.
What we do
Cloud That Is Designed, Not Just Migrated
Microsoft 365, Azure and AWS, designed around how your business actually works.
Microsoft 365 Design and Hardening
Tenant setup and hardening, Exchange, SharePoint, Teams and Entra ID, configured with conditional access and MFA from the start.
Azure and AWS Architecture
Virtual networks, hub and spoke topology, site-to-site VPN and private connectivity, and hybrid identity. Enterprise patterns sized for your business.
Migration
Assessment, sequencing and execution. We establish what should move, what should stay on premises, and what should be retired instead of migrated.
Identity and Access
Single sign-on, conditional access and least-privilege permissions. Identity is the real perimeter once your data lives in someone else's data center.
Cost Review
A line-by-line review of your cloud bill: right-sizing, reserved capacity and resources nobody has touched in months. Delivered as a report with the changes ranked by savings.
Backup and Retention Design
Standard Microsoft 365 plans do not include backup, and Microsoft's own terms recommend that you back up your data. We design backup and retention to your recovery and compliance needs, using Microsoft's backup add-on or a third-party tool.
How a Cloud Project Runs
Design first. Migrations that skip design are the ones that get redone.
Assess
Current environment, workloads, dependencies and requirements. This is where we decide what should move and what should not.
Design
Network topology, identity model, security controls and a realistic cost projection before anything moves.
Migrate and Hand Over
Phased migration with rollback points at each stage, tuning once real workloads run, then documentation and a walkthrough for whoever runs it.
Thinking About a Cloud Move, or a Smaller Bill?
A 30-minute call will tell you whether a move makes sense and where your current bill is likely leaking. Sometimes staying put is the cheaper answer.
FAQ
Cloud Questions We Get Asked
Sometimes. Cloud turns capital expense into operating expense and removes hardware refresh cycles. But a workload that runs constantly at high utilization is often cheaper on hardware you own. We model both before recommending either.
A review of every resource and subscription on the bill, what it is used for and what it should cost. You get a written list of changes ranked by savings and risk. Making the changes is optional and quoted separately.
Not by default. Microsoft's terms recommend that you back up your own data, and recovery after a deletion or ransomware event is limited to the built-in recycle bin and retention windows unless you add backup. Microsoft sells a separate pay-as-you-go backup add-on, and third-party backup tools are the other option. We design which one fits your recovery needs.
For a small business moving email and files to Microsoft 365, plan on two to six weeks depending on data volume and cleanup. Azure and AWS infrastructure projects run longer. The assessment gives you a real timeline.
Migrations are staged by agreement so disruption lands when it costs you least, with mailboxes and files cut over in batches. Some brief interruption is realistic. A multi-day outage means something was planned badly.
Yes. Cloud work is delivered remotely anywhere in the US.
