Cloud Migration Services
Startup-sized cloud migrations that arrive secure and cost-controlled: PaaS to cloud (Heroku class exits), cloud to cloud, region moves for data-localization, and account consolidation. Fixed scope, fixed price, senior engineer end to end. The migration is the cheapest moment you will ever have to fix cost and security; we use it.
The Problem
Migrations get sold two bad ways: enterprise factories that price for petabytes and bench 40 engineers, or a freelancer who moves the workload and leaves the IAM, the networking and the bill exactly as messy as before. For a startup the real risks are different: the one engineer who understands production is also the one doing the move, downtime windows are negotiated with customers rather than committees, and whatever shortcuts the migration takes become the architecture for years. A migration is also the one moment every resource gets touched, which makes it the cheapest possible time to fix tagging, least-privilege, encryption and cost structure. Most migrations waste that moment.
Who This Is For
Startups and small engineering teams, funded or bootstrapped, facing a concrete move: outgrowing a PaaS (Heroku, Render class) on cost or control; leaving one cloud for another now that exit egress is free on the major providers; moving workloads into an Indian region for DPDP or RBI data-localization expectations; or consolidating the three AWS accounts that three departed engineers left behind. If nothing is moving and the need is ongoing ownership, the fractional retainer is the better fit.
Typical Outcomes
Timeline Options
Weeks 1-2
- Inventory and dependency map of what actually runs
- Migration plan with phases, rollback paths and agreed windows
- Landing zone built and audited before anything moves
Weeks 3-6
- Data migrated with verified integrity
- Services moved phase by phase, each proven before the next
- Cutover executed inside the agreed window
Close-out
- Source environment decommissioned, billing ended, credentials rotated
- Cost and security verification report on the new environment
- Runbook handover session with your team
This might not be a fit if...
- You are exiting a physical datacenter at petabyte scale or migrating SAP / mainframe estates; that is an enterprise systems-integrator project
- You want a bench of engineers embedded for a year; this is a fixed-scope engagement by one senior engineer
- You need someone to approve a migration already done; we verify honestly or not at all
What You Get
The Transformation
Before
- The PaaS bill grows faster than revenue and control stops at the dashboard
- A migration plan that exists as a hope and a weekend
- Old environment, old accounts and old credentials linger for months after the move
- Cost and security scheduled for after the migration, which means never
After
- Workloads on infrastructure you control, at a cost structure you chose
- A phased move with rollback paths, executed against agreed windows
- The source environment decommissioned, its bill ended, its credentials dead
- Tagging, least-privilege and encryption present from the first day of the new environment
Engagement Models
Project-based
Fixed scope, fixed timeline, fixed price. Ideal for specific security initiatives.
Retainer
Ongoing support with priority response. Perfect for continuous security needs.
What influences pricing?
- Team size and environment complexity
- Timeline and urgency requirements
- Scope of systems and platforms
- Ongoing support and maintenance needs
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