Move off ageing infrastructure without closing for a weekend.
Migration in rehearsed waves, sequenced by risk, each one reversible. For a business that cannot stop trading, the cutover should be the least eventful hour of the project.
When this is the priority
This is the priority when hardware is ageing, the estate cannot scale for a busy period, or a system nobody wants to touch is running something critical.
It is not the priority if the current platform is stable and affordable. Modernising a system that works is a cost with no return attached.
- Offering
- CloudStart
- Duration
- 4–6 weeks
- Basis
- Fixed price per wave
- Downtime
- None planned
What we do
Assess, architect, secure, then move.
Most of the work happens before anything moves. By cutover day the sequence has already been run end to end against production-scale data.
AWS migration
Workloads moved in waves with a rehearsed cutover and tested rollback.
MGN · DMS
Application modernisation
Legacy applications replatformed or decomposed one component at a time.
ECS · Lambda
Database migration
Continuous replication until the switch, with row-level validation first.
DMS · RDS
CI/CD and IaC
Environments defined in code with an automated path to production.
CloudFormation · CodePipeline
How it runs
Rehearse, then move.
Every wave has an exit condition backed by a number. If validation shows drift, the date moves — that rule has saved more weekends than any tool we use.
Assess
Inventory, dependencies, and the cost of running it on AWS.
Architect and secure
Target design, cost model, and the security baseline deployed first.
Rehearse
Cutover run end to end against production-scale data.
Cut and hold
Switch, then keep the old estate warm for a full business cycle.
What changes
Before and after.
- Servers nobody wants to touch
- Cannot scale for a busy period
- No environment to test changes in
- Workloads running on managed AWS services
- Capacity that follows demand
- Reproducible environments defined in code
Honest limits
Where this is the wrong answer.
Next step
What is running on hardware you do not trust?
A short conversation first, then a bounded assessment. You end it with a plan and a price, whether or not you continue with us.