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Cloud Setup & Migration

Design, set up, and migrate to AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare, secure and cost-optimised from day one, with no lock-in surprises.

From greenfield setups to lift-and-shift migrations and cloud-native rebuilds, we design infrastructure that scales with you, stays secure, and keeps your monthly bill predictable.

Where we usually come in

You have outgrown the server in the cupboard. It works, but it is old, the warranty has lapsed, and replacing it means a capital purchase you would rather not make for hardware that will be idle most of the day.

You are already in the cloud and the bill keeps climbing. Something got set up in a hurry, nothing has been reviewed since, and nobody is quite sure what half the line items are for.

You are migrating for a reason with a deadline. An office move, an acquisition, an end-of-life system, or a client requirement that your data sit somewhere specific.

You want to do it properly from the start. A new product or a new business where getting identity, backups, and cost structure right at the beginning is cheaper than fixing them at scale later.

Security is part of the build, not a phase after it

The most expensive cloud security problems come from environments that were built to work first and secured afterwards. Public storage buckets, permissive access policies, and administrator credentials shared between people are all much harder to unwind once things are running on top of them.

So identity design, network segmentation, logging, and backup are part of the initial design conversation rather than a follow-up engagement. That includes the unglamorous parts: who can spend money, who can delete things, and what happens when somebody’s laptop is stolen.

Infrastructure as code, and why you should care

Where it is practical, we define your environment in code rather than by clicking through a console.

The benefit is not developer preference. It means the configuration of your infrastructure is a document you can read, review, and put in version control; that rebuilding after a disaster is a process rather than an archaeology project; and that a change can be proposed, reviewed, and rolled back like any other change. It also means that when something drifts from the intended state, that is detectable rather than invisible.

Cost, honestly

Cloud pricing is genuinely confusing, and a substantial amount of the money Australian businesses spend on it goes on resources that are oversized, idle, or forgotten entirely.

We include a cost model in the design so you know what the monthly bill should look like before you commit, and we set up billing alerts so a surprise is something you find out about in week one rather than in the quarterly review. On existing environments, a cost review is often the fastest thing we do that pays for itself.

Typical timeframe
Small migrations in weeks, staged programmes over months
Best for
Businesses outgrowing on-premise kit, or already in the cloud and paying too much

The engagement

How it runs

Every engagement follows the same shape, so you always know which part you are in and what is coming next.

  1. 1

    Assess

    We map what you run now, what depends on what, and what it costs. Most migrations go wrong because of a dependency nobody documented, so this stage earns its keep.

  2. 2

    Design

    We design the target environment around your actual requirements, including identity, networking, backup, and the cost model, and walk you through it before anything is built.

  3. 3

    Build

    The environment is built as code where practical, so what exists is reviewable, repeatable, and does not depend on remembering which boxes were ticked.

  4. 4

    Migrate

    We move in stages, each with a tested rollback and a defined cutover window. Nothing moves on a Friday afternoon without a very good reason.

  5. 5

    Hand over

    You get documentation, access, and a walkthrough. If you want us to keep running it we will, but you should be able to leave, and that is deliberate.

Common questions

Which cloud should we be on?

Usually whichever one your team already understands, unless there is a specific reason to move. Azure tends to win where Microsoft 365 is already central and identity is the deciding factor. AWS wins on breadth of services and is often the better fit for custom applications. Cloudflare is where we put anything internet-facing that benefits from being at the edge. We are not a reseller for any of them, so this is a technical recommendation rather than a commission.

Will this actually save us money?

Sometimes, and we will tell you when the honest answer is no. Cloud usually wins on flexibility, resilience, and not having to replace hardware, rather than on raw cost. Where we reliably save money is on environments already in the cloud that were never right-sized: oversized instances, forgotten resources, and storage tiers nobody revisited. That work often pays for itself.

How much downtime should we expect?

For most small business migrations, a planned window over a weekend or overnight, and for many workloads none at all. The staged approach exists precisely so that a problem affects one component during a window you chose, rather than everything on a morning you did not.

What about lock-in?

It is real, and the way to manage it is documentation and portability rather than pretending you can avoid it. We define infrastructure as code, avoid proprietary services where a portable option is comparable, and hand over an environment you could give to another provider tomorrow. You should not need us in order to keep operating.

Can you work with our existing IT provider?

Yes, and it is common. We do the migration and design work, they keep doing day-to-day support, and we make sure the handover documentation is written for them rather than for us.

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