Cloud migration foundations for Azure
Workloads reach Azure in reversible waves, not in one freeze weekend. We assess the estate, build the landing zone, migrate by wave, and hand over runbooks your operations team runs unaided.
The weekend is not the problem
Most migration plans fail on dependencies nobody documented: a shared file path, a hardcoded IP, a batch job that only runs on the third Tuesday. When the cutover window is a single weekend, discovery happens under pressure and rollback becomes the only option left.
You do not need a bigger weekend; you need a landing zone that already enforces networking, identity and policy before the first workload moves. We codify it in Bicep, apply guardrails through Azure Policy, and migrate one wave at a time, each with a tested rollback path. Migration is a sequencing decision, not an event.
Where cloud migrations go wrong, and how we de-risk them
Five patterns behind migrations that overrun or under-deliver.
Lift and shift with no target. Workloads move as they are, and the inefficiencies move with them.
Unknown dependencies. A workload moves and three systems nobody mapped stop working.
Security retrofitted. Controls are applied after the workloads are already running in production.
Cost discovered in month three. The first full invoice arrives and nobody can explain it.
The team inherits a black box. The partner leaves and the estate depends on knowledge nobody transferred.
A sequence designed around business risk
Every wave leaves the estate in a working state. No big-bang cutover weekends.
Estate and dependencies
What runs today, what depends on what, and which workloads carry business risk.
Landing zone and baseline
Identity, network, security and governance in place before anything moves.
Wave by wave
Workloads moved in sequenced waves, each validated before the next begins.
Right-size and hand over
Cost and performance tuned post-migration, with the estate handed to your team.
What you take away
Five deliverables: estate assessment from Azure Migrate data, landing zone with Microsoft Entra ID and Azure Policy baselines, wave plan, right-sizing figures and handover runbooks. Everything ships into your repositories and your ticketing system. If your estate is under twenty servers with no regulatory constraints, a direct lift-and-shift is cheaper and we will tell you so.
Assessment and migration plan
Landing zone in production
Migrated workloads
Runbooks and handover
What working together looks like
Plan the first wave
One session of ninety minutes on your current estate. You leave with a draft wave order and the dependencies that decide it.
Book the wave review