What are the advantages of moving to cloud?

Despite the fact that cloud infrastructures may have certain limitations, there is an uncountable number of advantages, including: Great resource scalability, which means you can scale your resources up and down on demand and enjoy the autoscaling features. Autoscaling will help to get prepared for unexpected traffic spikes and decrease the downtimes ratio. Cloud enables smart infrastructure automation and becomes a single source of truth for an environment. “Pay-as-you-go” billing model ensures you pay only for the resources you use. There is no need to forecast the load and buy the resources upfront. Infrastructure hosted in the cloud enables you to use modern technologies and trending open-source tools. Such infrastructure is fully compatible with numerous ready-made tools and which can be easily integrated into your operations. Cloud computing lets you reimagine and transform the approach to product delivery. It allows your IT stuff shift focus from infrastructure maintenance to product updates and new features release. Risk management becomes as easy as never before because of smart monitoring and alerting capabilities that ensure your services are always up.

What are the restrictions of cloud migration?

Most of the cloud migration service providers would consider the following aspects as restrictions of cloud migration: Not all applications are ready for migration upfront. It may happen that some apps will require slight amendments or even global changes in code and architecture. Lack, poor quality of absence of documentation will delay the cloud migration process because it will be harder to discover all the dependencies and service functions. Some outdated services can occur incompatible with cloud computing and will require full substitution or rewriting from scratch. If your databases contain sensitive information, confidential data under government regulation (especially in healthcare and banking industries), it may be prohibited for public clouds allocation. The good news is that the hybrid approach (cloud+server) is gaining more and more popularity. However, our hands-on experience shows that those restrictions are no show-stoppers. They influence project budget and schedule hence you’d need to invest additional efforts into coping with those, but do not mean migration is not possible.

How can I measure the final results?

There are two types of KPIs for cloud migration: basic metrics and post-migration metrics. They are cross-functional and can be used for on premise to cloud and cloud-to-cloud migration as well as for hybrid cloud migration. Post-migration metrics include service availability, response time under the load, scalability (up, down, in, out), cost, security vulnerabilities rate, and so on. After migration, we suggest tracking most relevant KPIs from the list below on a continuous basis: Corporate KPIs: Perceived Load Time, ApDex, Error %, Mobile Crash Rate, Route Searches, Segments, Check Ins, Fare Class, Promotions, Point Redemptions, Complementary Services, Loyalty Program Application/Infra KPIs: ApDex, Availability, Throughput, App/API/DB Response Times, Error %, Memory Footprint, CPU Workload,Disk Workload, Network Throuhgtup DevOps KPIs: Builds, Commits, Deploys, Defects Web KPIs: Session Count, Session Duration, Page Views, DOM Readiness, Page Render, Perceived Load Time, Error %, ApDex Mobile KPIs: App Launches, User Counts, Load Time, Response Time, Crash Rates, Crash Locations, Error Rates (HTTP, Network), API Errors, Session Duration Support KPIs: Support Incidents, MTTI, MTTR, Cost per Incident

cloud Migration Services

Get the most out of your IT ecosystem leveraging modern cloud platforms and services. Our battle-tested cloud experts will help you migrate to or between clouds with no hassle or business disruption

Office of the cloud migration consulting company

What We Do
As a cloud migration services provider, we deliver state-of-the-art solutions for public, hybrid & private cloud infrastructures. Our services include end-to-end support & guidance on all stages of the process - from application assessment for cloud migration to post-migration support.
What You Get
Secure and cost-efficient application migration to cloud, avoiding data loss & service disruption. Our proven frameworks, strategies, automated tools and vast expertise will help you achieve your business goals. We ensure the migration goes smoothly and no operations are interrupted.

Application migration to cloud by cloud developer

We migrated

Workloads of Diverse Scale

Certified

AWS&Azure

Partner

Trusted by

300

Clients Worldwide

Why Involve us for Cloud Migration

Tailor-made Solution

Each IT architecture serves unique business needs & requires an individual approach.

We build tailored cloud migration solutions that boost your IT capability.

Measurable Value

A successful migration is about ensuring measurable & positive business impact.

We track 30+ KPIs from speed to monthly cost to make your infrastructure optimal.

Business Continuity Assurance

Consistent migration with minimal downtimes is essential for business continuity.

We attend to data/infrastructure availability & security at all migration stages.

Full Service Coverage

Complex migration may require fine-tuning and changes in the neighboring areas.

We append the service with on-demand InfoSec, CI/CD, Test Automation & IT Support.

Managed Migration Services

Cloud Migration Services

Our certified experts leverage the most effective approaches and frameworks, allowing prompt and seamless transition of the workload of any scale and complexity to the cloud. As a cloud migration company, we perform the application virtualization and further redeployment in the public cloud as well as provide partial migration (hybrid solution), multi-cloud solutions or build private clouds from scratch.

While performing the migration we also bring in Infrastructure automation and CI/CD practices where applicable and provide further infrastructure support and cost optimization to make sure you get the most out of your new cloud infrastructure.

Legacy Workloads Refactoring

We have been dealing with hundreds of monoliths and legacy workloads and have performed full re-architecting activities to modernize infrastructures & apps to safeguard efficient legacy application migration to cloud.

Our cloud architects run a thorough discovery of existing architecture to uncover all the peculiarities and improvement points and create a re-architecting strategy that will ensure that the legacy applications & databases can be easily migrated to cloud and will further leverage all cloud infrastructure advantages.

Go to legacy modernization and migration

Related Cases

Saving 30% of a travel startup infrastructure costs with migration to DigitalOcean

Our DevOps team has envisioned & performed managed migration of a travel booking management platform, providing support for multiple cloud environments with zero downtime.

On-premise to cloud migration of an Influencer Marketing Platform infrastructure

We have optimized Mikz Platform infrastructure and performed migration to Azure Cloud meeting existing performance KPIs at 10% of the initial on-premise infrastructure costs.

KaaS disruptive learning system refactoring and on premise to AWS migration

We thoroughly refactored and migrated the platform to a new containerized dynamic infrastructure powered by Terraform and served under AWS ASG for better performance & availability.

Cloud Migration Consulting

Infrastructure Tech Vision

Well thought-out cloud infrastructure architecture is essential for IT operations efficiency. Our team of cloud engineers can both help you elaborate the state-of-the-art infrastructure concept that perfectly fits your requirements, and check the existing vision for possible vulnerabilities to safeguard your infrastructure resilience and sustainability.

We will find the perfect mix of established & cutting-edge technologies and architecture approaches including microservices, serverless, Kubernetes, GitOps, etc. to provide detailed recommendations on the best-fit Cloud environment setup.

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Cloud Migration Strategy

The more complex your current infrastructure and the more ambitious your future plans are, the more challenges the migration process can hold. So, a well-thought-out strategy and thorough cloud migration planning are essential.

Our experts will carefully analyze all the inputs including your current set-up, business & technical requirements, future infrastructure vision, operational interdependencies, etc. and plan your migration end-to-end to ensure the migration goes smoothly and safeguard that the new infrastructure starts to deliver value as early as possible.

Architecture diagram of app migrating from on premise to cloud

Related Cases

Vision, strategy & migration of a cybersecurity system to multi-cloud infrastructure

Our team has successfully migrated Clean.io anti-malvertising platform that protects 10,000+ sites worldwide to AWS + GCP based infrastructure run by Kubernetes for more flexibility.

Concept creation & development of a high-security cloud infrastructure for DanAds

Our AWS-based infrastructure supports multiple fully isolated Terraform-based customer environments with source code scanning, HIDS, Compliance & SecurityManagement, SIEM, and EDR.

Cloud to cloud migration planning using a flipchart

Cloud Migration Roadmap

Assessment

Our cloud engineers work closely with you to determine requirements & expectations, envision migration strategy and mitigate data loss & service disruption risks.

This stage includes such steps:

Сurrent infrastructure, its dependencies & environments analysis
Best-fit tech stack selection & infrastructure architecture design
Defining migration strategy and step-by-step plan

Migration

During this stage, we perform an end-to-end transition to the cloud in full accordance with the requirements, strategy, and plan defined during the assessment.

This stage includes such steps:

Building the required cloud infrastructure, rearchitecting activities
Thorough testing of the new infrastructure against agreed KPIs
Transition to the cloud, gradual cutover, and finally domain switch

Support

Post-migration support includes ongoing activities for ensuring the new infrastructure compliance with your expectations and its optimal performance & costs.

This stage includes the following activities:

Cost monitoring and optimization
Advanced cloud performance analytics
Maintenance and support

Technologies we Work with

AWS

GCP

MS Azure

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Ansible

Terraform

Vault

Consul

Jenkins

Grafana

Prometheus

DataDog

ElasticSearch

Our RTP Philosophy and Vision

Reliability

Focus on helping you achieve your business goals - both current and long-term
Battle-tested enterprise cloud migration processes for uninterrupted service & quality
Rigid quality control with a range of KPIs to track delivery quality and efficiency

Transparency

Regular status updates & reporting at different management levels
Clear, predictable, and consistent billing with full expenditure reports
PM tools of your choice (Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps) & clear project flow tracking

Partnership

Tailor-made solutions & focus on delivering value, not just performing the tasks
Finding new ideas & the most effective solutions for your individual case
Continuous optimization and enhancement of service delivery & performance

Frequently Asked Questions

Despite the fact that cloud infrastructures may have certain limitations, there is an uncountable number of advantages, including:

Great resource scalability, which means you can scale your resources up and down on demand and enjoy the autoscaling features. Autoscaling will help to get prepared for unexpected traffic spikes and decrease the downtimes ratio.
Cloud enables smart infrastructure automation and becomes a single source of truth for an environment.
“Pay-as-you-go” billing model ensures you pay only for the resources you use. There is no need to forecast the load and buy the resources upfront.
Infrastructure hosted in the cloud enables you to use modern technologies and trending open-source tools. Such infrastructure is fully compatible with numerous ready-made tools and which can be easily integrated into your operations.
Cloud computing lets you reimagine and transform the approach to product delivery. It allows your IT stuff shift focus from infrastructure maintenance to product updates and new features release.
Risk management becomes as easy as never before because of smart monitoring and alerting capabilities that ensure your services are always up.

Most of the cloud migration service providers would consider the following aspects as restrictions of cloud migration:

Not all applications are ready for migration upfront. It may happen that some apps will require slight amendments or even global changes in code and architecture.
Lack, poor quality of absence of documentation will delay the cloud migration process because it will be harder to discover all the dependencies and service functions.
Some outdated services can occur incompatible with cloud computing and will require full substitution or rewriting from scratch.
If your databases contain sensitive information, confidential data under government regulation (especially in healthcare and banking industries), it may be prohibited for public clouds allocation. The good news is that the hybrid approach (cloud+server) is gaining more and more popularity.

However, our hands-on experience shows that those restrictions are no show-stoppers. They influence project budget and schedule hence you’d need to invest additional efforts into coping with those, but do not mean migration is not possible.

There are 6 core migration strategies called “6R”: rehosting, replatforming, repurchasing, rearchitecting, retiring, retaining. Only proper and thorough cloud readiness assessment allows to evaluate which strategy is the most optimal for your specific case.

Out of our experience, each IT infrastructure is unique and may require the combined approach, for example, some pieces of the application can be easily rehosted and some pieces will require global changes before moving to the cloud. It will help to meet your business needs, save costs during migration, and make the infrastructure more friendly for the cloud.

Along with DevOps best practices, proper cloud utilization requires infrastructure automation (infrastructure described with a code) and CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth releases and on-click deployments. Besides, it is a good practice to use container orchestration tools like Kubernetes to ensure zero-downtime for your production environment.

Definitely yes. Popular public cloud providers like AWS, MS Azure, GCP meet all the security compliance requirements and specifications like SOC2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS. However, it is important that your GCP migration, Azure cloud migration or AWS migration partner is aware of your security concerns and takes appropriate measures to meet those requirements.

There are two types of KPIs for cloud migration: basic metrics and post-migration metrics. They are cross-functional and can be used for on premise to cloud and cloud-to-cloud migration as well as for hybrid cloud migration.

Post-migration metrics include service availability, response time under the load, scalability (up, down, in, out), cost, security vulnerabilities rate, and so on.

After migration, we suggest tracking most relevant KPIs from the list below on a continuous basis:

Corporate KPIs: Perceived Load Time, ApDex, Error %, Mobile Crash Rate, Route Searches, Segments, Check Ins, Fare Class, Promotions, Point Redemptions, Complementary Services, Loyalty Program
Application/Infra KPIs: ApDex, Availability, Throughput, App/API/DB Response Times, Error %, Memory Footprint, CPU Workload,Disk Workload, Network Throuhgtup
DevOps KPIs: Builds, Commits, Deploys, Defects
Web KPIs: Session Count, Session Duration, Page Views, DOM Readiness, Page Render, Perceived Load Time, Error %, ApDex
Mobile KPIs: App Launches, User Counts, Load Time, Response Time, Crash Rates, Crash Locations, Error Rates (HTTP, Network), API Errors, Session Duration
Support KPIs: Support Incidents, MTTI, MTTR, Cost per Incident

Our Offices

Munich, Germany

Design Offices München Atlas, Rosenheimer Str. 143C, 81671 Munich, Germany

cloud Migration Services

What We Do

What You Get