At whatever scale the business needs
A single production environment built on the platform's prescriptive blueprints, or a multi-account, multi-entity platform designed from the ground up.
Seven stages, in sequence
Why cloud, and what has to be true for it to succeed: commercial and cost objectives, target operating cost, regulatory and contractual obligations, data residency, availability and recovery targets, timelines, and the decisions that are not negotiable. This is where the shape of the programme is set, and where most of the cost of getting it wrong is incurred.
Current-state review of infrastructure, applications, governance and access model, performance and capacity baselines, operating model and compliance posture. Output: an application portfolio with a disposition per workload — retain, rehost, replatform, refactor, retire, replace — a dependency map, and the risks that will actually slow you down.
Reference architecture, a cost model built on real utilisation data rather than list prices, and a wave plan with a sequence you can defend to a steering committee.
Scaled to the estate and built on the platform’s own reference architecture — a blueprint-based foundation where the estate is small, a bespoke design where it is not. Account structure, identity and access, network topology, logging and encryption baseline, policy guardrails and cost allocation, delivered as Terraform rather than clicked together in a console.
One real workload, chosen for representativeness rather than convenience, taken to production on the new foundation. It validates the landing zone, the pipelines, the runbooks and the cost model against reality before the full wave plan is committed — and it stays in production rather than being thrown away.
Delivery in waves, sequenced by dependency, risk and each workload’s own requirements, with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation and Kubernetes where they earn their place, and a rollback path for each wave.
Observability, cost control, security baseline, runbooks, and a handover your team can run without us.
The target platform's own adoption framework
The AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework for Azure, the Google Cloud Adoption Framework — so the design follows the specifics and the established practice of that cloud rather than a generic template. We use them the way they were intended: as a completeness check, so nothing structural is skipped.
Designed for the constraints at the foundation stage
Cloud adoption in European financial services carries obligations that shape the architecture from day one: DORA, NIS2 and GDPR, EBA outsourcing requirements, data residency, exit and portability strategy, and evidence that will survive an audit. We design for those constraints at the foundation stage, where they are cheap, rather than retrofitting them after migration, where they are not.
Four ways in
Adoption assessment
A short, fixed-scope engagement producing the requirements, the portfolio, the target architecture and the wave plan. Most clients start here.
Foundation and pilot
Landing zone delivered as code, with one workload proven in production.
Migration delivery
Wave-by-wave execution alongside your team, scaled with delivery partners where the volume calls for it.
Architecture advisory
Design authority, review and governance for a programme already in flight — including alongside another delivery partner.
Is an adoption programme worth starting this year?
Send us your current estate and constraints and we will tell you, in one call.
- Documented business drivers, requirements and constraints
- Current-state assessment and application portfolio with dispositions
- Target architecture and cost model
- Landing zone delivered as infrastructure code
- Guardrail and policy baseline mapped to your compliance obligations
- A pilot workload running in production
- Migration wave plan and runbooks
- Operational handover and team enablement