Cloud architecture & DevOps

If you are a Microsoft 365 organisation using Entra ID and .NET, Azure is usually the lower-friction and lower-cost choice because identity and licensing already line up. AWS has the broader service catalogue and often wins on data and machine learning workloads. For most UK mid-market businesses the deciding factor is your existing Microsoft estate and the skills you can hire, not a feature comparison.

It depends on what hurts. If you are suffering slow response times, no staging environment, manual FTP deployments or no backup you have tested, then yes — and the monthly cost is often comparable. If a small static site is running fine, moving it to Azure will cost more and gain little. We will tell you which situation you are in.

A single application lift-and-shift is typically 3 to 6 weeks including testing and cutover. Re-platforming to managed services takes 2 to 4 months. Multi-application estate migrations are programmes rather than projects and are best done application by application with a defined landing zone in place first.

No. Infrastructure as code, documented pipelines and written runbooks are deliverables. We also run handover sessions with your team. If you would rather we kept running it, that is a support agreement — but it should be your choice, not a consequence of how we built it.

Yes. We deploy to UK South and UK West regions where residency is required, configure encryption at rest and in transit, restrict administrative access, and document data flows and sub-processors so your privacy notice and records of processing are accurate. We are engineers rather than lawyers, so we work alongside your DPO or legal adviser on the compliance position itself.