Cloud Migration Without the Downtime or the Surprise Bill

Cloud migrations get sold as transformation and delivered as a mess: a lift-and-shift that copies every bad habit into a more expensive environment, a cutover that takes the application down for a weekend, and a bill that somehow goes up instead of down. The reason is almost always that nobody assessed the workload first. They moved everything as-is, hoped it would be fine, and discovered the over-provisioned instances and idle resources only when the invoice arrived.

We treat migration as an engineering problem with a clear answer. First we figure out whether you should migrate at all — and tell you honestly if the answer is no. When it is yes, we model the target environment as code, move workloads with parity testing so the new setup provably matches the old, cut over with a rollback ready, and right-size everything so the result is cheaper and cleaner than where you started. A migration should leave you with a lower bill and a better-run system, not just a new logo on the invoice.

A one-week assessment comes first. We inventory the current environment, model what the target would cost, identify the risky pieces, and produce a one-page migration plan with a phased estimate. The assessment is billed separately at $2,500 so you can decide before committing — and it includes the honest call on whether to migrate at all.

From there we migrate in waves, starting with low-risk workloads to prove the pattern before moving the critical ones. Every wave is parity-tested and reversible. We hand off cloud accounts in your name, the full Terraform or Pulumi codebase, and operational runbooks. Optional retainer for ongoing cost optimization and platform work.

The dangerous moments in a migration are the data move and the cutover. We de-risk the data move with replication and change-data-capture so the new database stays in sync with the old one right up to the switch, plus reconciliation checks that confirm nothing was lost. We de-risk the cutover with parity testing and traffic routing that lets us shift a sliver of users to the new environment, watch it, and widen the rollout — or roll all the way back in seconds if something looks wrong.

We dogfood this. Our own systems run on infrastructure-as-code on the cloud, deployed through the same CI/CD and rollback patterns we use for client migrations. We move your workloads the way we would move our own — assuming something will go wrong and making sure it is recoverable when it does.

Founder-led from assessment through cutover, delivered remotely to clients across the United States from our base in Macon, Georgia.

Fixed-fee per scope. Typical ranges:

• One-week assessment with a target cost model and migration plan: $2,500 flat
• Single application plus database migrated with parity testing: $10k – $25k
• Multi-service estate migrated in waves with infrastructure as code: $30k – $65k
• Large or regulated migration with strict parity and compliance needs: $55k – $90k
• Standalone cost optimization sprint on your existing cloud: $8k – $20k

Cost optimization frequently pays for itself within the first year. Optional retainer for ongoing FinOps and platform work.