We start by looking at the core problem rather than the request. Most customers come to us with a clear idea of what they want built, and our first job is to step back and find the issue behind it. From there, we can tell you whether there's a technical solution, what it would involve and what it would cost to build and run.

We offer an independent view, a safety-net and added expertise as needed. We've seen similar decisions across many industries and environments, so we can often spot what an internal team might miss, validate a plan before you commit, or handle specialist tasks while your team stays on the day-to-day.

We set the controls at the start and manage them through code, so every change goes through review, deployment controls and approval rather than a manual edit nobody sees. Where your team is taking the environment on afterwards, we'll sometimes recommend a longer handover to build their confidence first.

Migrations usually get stuck on the parts outside standard tools, like dependencies between systems, network design, and whatever else connects to what you're moving. A migration needs testing, validation and a clear map of what talks to what. Automated tools do some of the grunt work, but they don't understand your environment and certainly don’t know what’s important to your business.

Sometimes what looks like a technology problem turns out to be about governance, process, or how the teams are structured. In that case, we’ll let you know what our analysis has uncovered so you can avoid spending budget on a technical fix that doesn't solve the underlying issue.

It's an Amazon-developed standard for assessing a cloud environment against a defined set of controls, covering areas like security, reliability, performance and cost. We run the assessment using the available tooling, then work through each control with your team to pick up nuances a paper-based review can miss.

Your infrastructure, configuration and deployment processes are held in code, known as infrastructure as code, and managed through a repository. That means every change is tracked, reviewed and can be rolled back cleanly, and your team gets a documented process to keep using after we've finished.