On-Premise to Cloud Migration Consulting

Your servers stay live. Your data moves safely. Your team spends 3 to 5 hours a week.

We move on-premises workloads to AWS, Azure, and GCP. Every migration runs with a governed landing zone, a zero-downtime cutover, and a tested rollback plan. Compliance is scoped in week 1, not after you go live.

On-premise to cloud migration topology • live
ON-PREMISES CLOUD ENVIRONMENT MIGRATION PIPELINE 🖥 App Server 💾 Database 🔧 Services 📁 File Store 🔍 Assess Week 1-2 🏗 Landing Zone Week 3-4 ACTIVE 🔄 Migrate Week 5-12 🛡 Validate Week 13-16 Cloud Compute 🔐 IAM + KMS 📊 Managed DB 📈 Monitor
Platform
AWS / Azure / GCP
Downtime
Zero required
Infrastructure
100% as code
Rollback
Tested before cutover
Cloud infrastructure architect reviewing an AWS and Azure on-premise-to-cloud migration topology and architecture diagram on dual monitors in soft morning side light
The real cost of staying on-premises

On-premises infrastructure does not get cheaper. It compounds. Every year you stay adds hardware debt, staffing overhead, and compliance risk.

What staying on-premises costs you
📅
Hardware refresh every 3 to 5 years
$50k to $500k in capital expense, whether or not you need the capacity. Paid in full before a single request is served.
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Outages with no automatic recovery
When on-premises hardware fails, your team scrambles. No automatic failover. No guaranteed recovery time. Revenue stops until someone fixes the physical problem.
🔒
Compliance audits take weeks of engineering time
Manual evidence collection and access log reviews take 3 to 4 times longer on-premises than in a cloud environment built for auditability.
📈
Capacity planning is always wrong
You buy for your busiest day and idle 80% of the year. Or you buy lean and hit limits when revenue peaks.
🧑‍💻
Your senior engineers maintain servers instead of building product
Patching, backup jobs, hardware monitoring, and incident response pull your best engineers away from what drives growth.
After cloud migration with Redefine
💰
Pay only for what you run
No hardware refresh cycle. No sunk capital. We produce a per-workload cost model before any workload moves, so you see the savings before you commit.
99.9% uptime with contractual credits and automatic recovery
Cloud providers back their uptime guarantees in writing. Multi-region failover runs without a 2am page to your team.
📋
Compliance infrastructure built before workload one moves
We design network isolation, access controls, encryption, and audit logging into the landing zone. Compliance is an input, not a retrofit.
📊
Scale in minutes, not budget cycles
Auto-scaling matches real demand. Black Friday capacity is available on demand. You never buy headroom you do not need.
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Your engineers build product. Managed services handle the rest
Patching, backups, and monitoring move to managed cloud services. Your team ships features.
3-Year Cloud Migration ROI Calculator

See what staying on-premises costs you versus moving to cloud.

Move the sliders to match your environment. The calculator compares your 3-year on-premises total cost against cloud, and shows your savings at your specific scale.

Your on-premises environment
Servers or virtual machines24
Hardware refresh budget, 3-year total ($k)$180k
IT staff hours on server maintenance per month80 hours
Unplanned downtime hours per year24 hours
Revenue lost per downtime hour ($k)$12k
3-year cost comparison
On-premises 3-year cost$0
Cloud 3-year cost$0
Your estimated 3-year savings
$0
Based on hardware, operations, and downtime costs
Hardware savings
$0
Downtime cost reduction
$0
These are directional estimates. Cloud costs vary by region, workload type, and reserved capacity commitments. Migration fees are not included. We build a detailed, per-workload cost model during the assessment.
How we run every cloud migration

Four phases. Every workload assessed, moved, and validated before the next one leaves the ground.

Infrastructure team reviewing a printed cloud landing-zone architecture diagram and laptop console at a large table in soft diffused office light
01

Migration readiness assessment

Most migrations fail because teams skip this step. We spend two weeks documenting every workload: what it depends on, what data it handles, what compliance rules apply, and how it performs today. No workload moves without a defined target architecture. This is what prevents the surprises that stall migrations after they start.

Workload inventoryDependency mappingCost model
02

Cloud landing zone architecture

Before we move a single workload, we build the governed cloud environment it will land in. Account structure, network layout, access policies, security controls, and cost tracking are all defined in advance. When workloads arrive, they enter a controlled environment, not an empty bucket. Built with Terraform or Bicep, every configuration is reproducible and auditable.

VPC designIAM policiesKMS encryption
Azure development services →
03

Workload migration and cutover

We move workloads in the order defined during the assessment. Stateless applications go first. Databases and stateful services follow once their dependencies are established in the cloud. Each workload runs live on both environments before traffic shifts. We test the rollback plan for every workload before production traffic moves. You always have a way back.

Parallel-runZero downtimeTested rollback
All migration services →
04

Stabilization, optimization, and handover

We stay for 30 days after go-live. That time goes to monitoring, cost tuning, performance review, and right-sizing your reserved capacity. When the engagement closes, your team receives a full runbook, the complete Terraform or Bicep codebase, architecture documentation, and alerting playbooks. You leave with everything you need to run what we built.

Cost optimizationFull runbookTeam handover
FinTech client result

A regulated FinTech cut compliance audit prep time by 72% after migrating to Google Cloud Platform.

Compliance lead and engineer reviewing an all-green cloud security and compliance audit dashboard on a large monitor after migration in soft office side light
FinTechRegulated environment
The problem

This client ran financial services software on aging on-premises hardware. Two problems made growth impossible. First, the infrastructure could not scale to meet demand. Second, every compliance audit cycle consumed weeks of engineering time in manual evidence collection, access log reviews, and documentation exports.

  • Compliance evidence gathered manually every audit cycle
  • No network isolation between production and non-production environments
  • On-premises capacity blocked planned product expansion
What we delivered

We built a governed Google Cloud Platform landing zone before any workload moved. Network isolation, access control policies, encryption at rest and in transit, and automated audit logging were designed into the architecture from day one. Workloads and databases migrated with zero downtime. The new environment automated the evidence collection that used to require weeks of manual work.

Result
0%
Reduction in compliance audit preparation time. Manual evidence collection was replaced by automated audit logging built into the cloud architecture.
Google Cloud PlatformIAMVPCKMSTerraform
Why Redefine for cloud migration

Six practices every Redefine cloud migration includes that most partners treat as optional or extra.

What we do
Most cloud partners
Redefine
Landing zone built before any workload moves
Governed cloud environment designed and deployed before migration starts
Ad hoc
Always
100% infrastructure as code — Terraform or Bicep
Every configuration is reproducible. Nothing built by clicking through a portal.
Sometimes
Standard
Compliance defined before migration starts
Security controls, access policies, and audit logging scoped in week 1 — not retroactively
Post-migration
Week 1
Rollback plan tested before any production traffic shifts
Rollback is verified and rehearsed, not assumed
Not standard
Mandatory
Per-workload cost model before you sign
Cloud costs are estimated per workload, at your actual scale, before you commit
Rough estimate
Per workload
30-day post-go-live stabilization included
Monitoring, cost tuning, and a full runbook handover — included, not billed separately
Extra cost
Included
Common questions

What IT leaders and CTOs ask us before starting a cloud migration.

A migration of 10 to 30 workloads typically takes 8 to 16 weeks. The timeline depends on workload complexity, compliance requirements, and integration points. We scope the timeline during the 2-week assessment, before quoting. You do not receive a quote until we understand exactly what we are moving. Use the ROI calculator above to see what remaining on-premises costs you while you wait.

No. Your on-premises systems stay live throughout the migration. We build and validate the cloud environment in parallel. Traffic shifts to the cloud only after the new environment passes testing. Before any production traffic moves, we test and document the rollback plan. If anything goes wrong, you cut back in minutes.

Compliance scope comes first, in week 1. We design the cloud landing zone around your compliance framework before any workload moves. Access controls, network isolation, data encryption, and audit logging are built into the architecture from the start. Compliance is never a retrofit.

We migrate to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. Platform selection happens during the assessment, based on your workloads, compliance obligations, vendor agreements, and your team's existing expertise. We do not recommend a platform based on what we know best. We recommend the right one for your environment.

A cloud landing zone is a governed cloud environment built before any workload arrives. It defines your account structure, network design, access policies, security controls, and cost tracking. Without one, workloads enter an uncontrolled environment. That creates security gaps and cost overruns that grow harder to fix as the migration scales. We build the landing zone before workload one moves.

Start your cloud migration

Tell us about your on-premises environment. We will tell you what moving it takes.

No commitment. No pitch. We respond within two business days.

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You submit a brief. We call within 48 hours. Your migration readiness report is ready in 3 days. Sprint 1 starts in week 2.

48 hours
First response
Zero downtime
Built into the plan
100% as code
Reproducible and auditable
Rollback tested
Before traffic shifts

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