Our cloud migration consulting services sell the assessment separately and first. It takes about a week, it produces a written answer, and it is priced independently of whatever it recommends.
That separation is what lets the recommendation follow your numbers.
What Cloud Migration Consulting Services Should Deliver First
What it costs today, properly. Hardware amortized, licenses, the hosting bill, and the engineer time actually spent keeping it running. That last number is the one nobody has.
What it would cost there. Sized from your real usage rather than a vendor calculator, with egress and support tiers included, because those are where estimates go wrong.
What breaks. The integrations, the fixed IP somebody depends on, the license that is not transferable, the batch job that assumes a local disk.
A recommendation with a number attached. Move it, move part of it, or leave it, written down so it survives the person who commissioned it moving on.
Lift and Shift, or Rearchitect
Lift and shift is fast and it preserves the system you have. Where an application is slow because of a missing index, it stays slow at a higher monthly cost.
Rearchitecting is where the benefit lives and it is a far larger project than the pitch implies.
The usual right answer is neither in pure form: move it, rework the two components that justify the work, and leave the rest alone. That sequencing is what our cloud migration consulting services are built around.
Sizing Against Real Load
A single well-configured server handles far more traffic than most businesses generate, and we will say so where your usage graph supports it.
Managed cloud earns its price when load genuinely varies, when several teams need isolated environments, or when the operational burden is real and nobody wants to carry it.
We resell nothing and hold no partner tier, so the recommendation costs you only the time it takes to answer the questions.
What Usually Breaks in Transit
Email authentication, first. The sending IP changes and the SPF record stays as it was, so invoices start landing in spam a week after cutover.
Then anything holding a fixed address: a partner’s allowlist, a payment gateway callback, a VPN route somebody configured in 2019. We inventory those during the assessment and schedule each one, because they fail quietly rather than loudly.
What the Assessment Costs You
One week, fixed price, delivered as a document you own. Take it to another supplier if you want to, because the numbers in it stand on their own.
Where the answer is to move, the migration is quoted from that document rather than from a discovery call, which is what makes the number hold.
Tell us what runs today and what it costs and we will tell you what the move is worth.
Related Services
The estate you land on, and the deployment pipelines that keep it honest, are infrastructure and DevOps.
Where the application itself has to change to survive the move, that is legacy modernization. Where the data has to move rather than the servers, that is data migration.