Assess first, then migrate.
Cloud assessment, migration, hybrid and private cloud, Azure and AWS infrastructure, backup and DR — designed by WAM from an honest assessment of what should move, what should stay, and what it will cost to run.
What it covers.
Cloud assessment
Every workload looked at for what it depends on, what it costs to run where it is, and what it would cost to run elsewhere — ending in a disposition for each: move, keep, or retire.
Cloud migration
The workloads the assessment says should move, moved in an order that keeps their dependencies intact, on the same runbook discipline as a physical relocation.
Hybrid and private cloud
An estate designed as one thing — the part that stays on premises, the part in the cloud, and the connectivity and identity that make them behave as a single environment.
Azure and AWS infrastructure
Landing zones on either platform: accounts, identity, network, guardrails, and cost visibility built before the first workload arrives, so the estate does not have to be tidied up later.
Backup and DR
Backup and recovery designed into the estate from the start, with replication that matches the recovery you actually need and failover that gets tested on a schedule.
How we approach it.
Not everything should move
The assessment exists to find out what should. Some workloads are cheaper, faster, or simpler where they are, and the honest answer for them is keep. We would rather say so than migrate something because a migration was the brief.
Landing zone before workloads
Identity, network, guardrails, and cost visibility are designed and built first. A workload dropped into an account with none of that in place is the origin of most cloud estates that later need untangling.
Hybrid is a design, not a compromise
When part of the estate stays on premises, the two halves are designed together — connectivity, identity, and replication — so the result is one environment with two locations rather than two environments that happen to be connected.
Designed by WAM, with partners where it is physical
Assessment, architecture, landing zone, and migration planning are WAM's own work. Where the design needs hardware or connectivity installed — private cloud, a direct link — specialist partners carry that out to the design, as on every other pillar.
Who does what.
WAM scopes, designs, and leads; specialist delivery partners carry out the physical work to our design and under our project management. These are the stages that carry the weight on this pillar.
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Survey and assessment
Technical survey, site assessment, inventory, power, cooling and capacity review, and the constraints nobody wrote down. Ends with a written picture of what you actually have.
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Design and specification
Architecture, rack layouts, cabling design, network topology, equipment specification, and the runbooks a migration or DR cutover will be executed from. Vendor-neutral, and yours to take elsewhere if you want.
Two places, one design.
Hybrid is not half a migration. What stays and what moves are decided together, and the link between them is designed rather than discovered.
What you receive.
Handed over at commissioning, not promised for later.
- Cloud assessment reportWorkload disposition (move, keep, retire)Target architecture and landing-zone designMigration runbookCost model and its assumptionsBackup and DR planAs-built documentation
Straight answers.
Azure or AWS?
Either. The platform is chosen for the workload and for what your team can run, not for a partnership — we are vendor-neutral here as everywhere else. Our software teams also build and deploy on Google Cloud Platform and AWS, so the two sides of WAM can meet in the same estate.
Will moving to the cloud be cheaper?
Sometimes, and sometimes the assessment shows it will not be. The cost model is one of the assessment's outputs, with its assumptions written down so you can argue with them. We do not promise a saving before the assessment exists.
Is this delivered through partners too?
Mostly not. Assessment, design, landing zone, and migration planning are WAM's own work. Specialist partners are brought in only where something physical has to be installed — private cloud hardware, a direct connection — and then to the design, under our project management, as on every other pillar.
Do you run our cloud estate afterwards?
Support is optional and scoped per engagement — monitoring, cost review, change management — with what it covers agreed in writing for your estate rather than offered as a standard tier. Many clients take the landing zone and documentation and run it themselves, which the design is built to allow.
Can you migrate our existing applications, or only infrastructure?
Both. Workload migration covers applications and the data behind them, and where an application needs changing to run well in the cloud, that is engineering work our software side does — the two are scoped together so nothing falls between them.
Start with the assessment.
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