Cloud & infrastructure

Migrate, repatriate, or stay put — we will tell you which.

Lift-and-shift, refactor, cloud-to-cloud, and repatriation across every major public cloud. We have run all four directions and we plan the cutover with the network already in our control.

Stack & specs

AWS · Azure · Google Cloud · Oracle · IBM · DigitalOcean · Vultr · Akamai Cloud (Linode)
lift-and-shift · refactor · cloud-to-cloud · repatriation
VMware · Proxmox · Hyper-V · KVM · P2V
database cutover · storage replication · DNS staging
private interconnect · BGP · staged transit

Cloud vendors we run

Amazon Web ServicesAWS
Broadest service catalog; default for most greenfield workloads and regulated US-region work.
Microsoft AzureAzure
Strongest fit when identity, Microsoft 365, or enterprise agreements already anchor the stack.
Google CloudGCP
Data, analytics, and Kubernetes-native workloads; BigQuery and GKE remain category leaders.
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureOCI
Oracle DB, EBS, and Java workloads where the licensing math makes OCI the honest answer.
IBM Cloud
Regulated industries, Power and Z workloads, and enterprises already on Red Hat OpenShift.
DigitalOcean
Predictable pricing for SMB and product teams; clean APIs and managed Postgres and Kubernetes without the hyperscaler tax.
Vultr
Bare-metal and high-frequency compute in regions the hyperscalers underserve; competitive egress pricing.
Akamai Cloud (Linode)
Linode developer ergonomics on Akamai's global edge; strong for latency-sensitive or distributed workloads.

What it is

Cloud Migrations, in plain terms.

Four migration directions, scoped honestly. Lift-and-shift when the goal is to vacate a data center on a date. Refactor when the workload deserves the rewrite and the team can carry it. Cloud-to-cloud when the bill, the platform, or the contract makes the current home untenable. Repatriation when the math has turned and steady-state compute belongs back on owned hardware in colo. We will not pretend the unfashionable answer is wrong if it is right.

Every major public cloud is in scope as a source or a target. We migrate into and out of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, IBM Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Akamai Cloud (Linode), and we will plan a cloud-to-cloud cutover between any pair of them. Repatriation paths land on our own colocation footprint or yours. We have done the unglamorous ones — IBM Cloud Classic to VPC, Linode-era Akamai workloads to a hyperscaler and back, Oracle DB out of OCI onto bare metal — and we can speak honestly about the gotchas.

Execution, not advice. We inventory the estate, map dependencies, design the target landing zone, and write the runbook before the first VM moves. P2V conversions, storage replication, database cutovers, DNS flips, and the rollback plan for the one that does not behave. We move during the window your business can absorb, with named engineers on the bridge, not a ticket queue.

The network is part of the migration, not an afterthought. We have seen too many cutovers stall on egress fees, throttled inter-region links, or a peering gap nobody noticed. Because we operate our own AS and own the cross-connects at multiple carrier-neutral facilities, we can light private paths into AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle, and IBM, stage replication over transit we control, and keep the bandwidth invoice predictable.

When you'd want this

Common triggers for this engagement.

01You have a lease expiration, an acquisition, or a board mandate driving a hard date
02Your cloud bill has outgrown the workload and repatriation is on the table
03You are leaving one cloud for another and need the cutover planned end to end
04You are consolidating second-tier providers (DigitalOcean, Vultr, Akamai Cloud) into a hyperscaler, or moving the other direction to lower the bill
05You have a VMware estate that needs to land somewhere — cloud, Proxmox, or KVM — without a six-month outage

How we engage

01

Discovery call

30 min, this week

You'll talk to an engineer, not an SDR. We read the bills, look at the diagrams, ask the unfashionable questions.

02

Scoped proposal

Within 5 business days

Honest scope, fixed price or T&M, named engineers. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you who is.

03

Engagement kickoff

2–4 weeks typical

Embedded with your team. The same people who write the design are the ones on the bridge.

Frequently asked

Questions teams ask before signing.

Which clouds do you migrate between?

Any pair across the eight we run in production: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, IBM Cloud, DigitalOcean, Vultr, and Akamai Cloud (Linode). We also migrate to and from colocation and on-prem virtualization (VMware, Proxmox, Hyper-V, KVM). The direction we will not do is the one that is wrong for your workload — we will say so before scoping the project.

Should I repatriate from the cloud?

Sometimes. If your workload is steady-state, GPU-heavy, egress-heavy, or storage-heavy, the cloud bill rarely beats owned hardware in colo over three years. If it is bursty, regional, or genuinely cloud-native, stay. We do the math before we recommend either way.

How do you price migrations?

Fixed scope per phase. Discovery and target design is a defined deliverable with a defined price. Execution is priced against the inventory we agreed on, with change orders if the estate turns out larger. No time-and-materials drift on the cutover itself.

Can you handle the egress fees during a cloud-to-cloud move?

We plan around them. Staged replication, private interconnects where they qualify for discounted transfer, and snapshot-shipping over our own transit when it is cheaper than the provider's egress meter. The egress line item is on the project plan, not a post-cutover surprise.

Do you migrate VMware to Proxmox or KVM?

Yes. Broadcom pricing has made this a common request. We convert VMs, rebuild the storage and network layer, and validate workloads on the new hypervisor before retiring the old cluster.

Related services

Migrate, repatriate, or stay put — we will tell you which.

Cloud Migrations, in plain terms.

Common triggers for this engagement.

Questions teams ask before signing.

Frequently scoped alongside this work.

Cloud Computing

Cloud Consulting

Virtualization

Data Center Colocation

Scoped honestly, priced in conversation.