Cloud that lowers cost and raises resilience — both

We baseline current total cost — hardware refresh, licensing, hosting, DR, and the staff time absorbed by maintenance — then model target-state cost across three scenarios with explicit assumptions. Most cases only work with modernisation and FinOps included, so we show the naive lift-and-shift number too. You get a model you can challenge, not a vendor slide.

Deliberate multi-cloud is fine — using BigQuery for analytics while running applications on Azure, for example. Symmetrical multi-cloud, where everything must run anywhere, roughly doubles platform cost and halves your ability to use managed services. We recommend a primary platform with clear, justified exceptions.

Frequently. We start with a Well-Architected style review across security, reliability, cost and operations, produce a prioritised remediation backlog, then stabilise before we optimise. Undocumented estates get an as-built discovery phase first.

SLO-based monitoring and alerting, incident response with defined severities and response times, patching and upgrade management, backup verification, DR drills, security posture management, and a monthly service review covering cost, incidents and improvement actions.

Guardrails before workloads: budget alerts, mandatory tagging enforced by policy, instance-type restrictions, non-production shutdown schedules and anomaly detection. Then a monthly FinOps cadence where every cost centre has a named owner and unit-cost trend.