Readiness & Portfolio Review
Architecture, reliability, cost drivers and operational maturity, ranked by business criticality, technical health and what each costs to keep as is. A practical plan.
Post-Acquisition AWS Migration Without Losing What You Know
Legacy systems, a stalled migration or a newly acquired stack usually mean paying to run more than you need. We work out what to move, fix or retire, then help your team run it.
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud partner
Signals We Listen For
- "We acquired a company and now run two stacks nobody fully understands."
- "The migration stalled after lift-and-shift, and the bill went up."
- "Our team spends more time working around old systems than shipping."
- "An end-of-life deadline is making the decision for us."
- "The people who know how it all works are about to leave."
The costly failure isn't moving too slowly. It's modernizing the wrong systems in the wrong order, or losing what your people know during the handoff. We make the order of work decision-grade before anyone moves a workload.
While it waits: both environments keep running, end-of-life systems may need extended support, and the people who know the old stack are your only safety net. That cost lasts until someone decides the order of work.
What We Diagnose
Cloud Foundation
Account structure, networking, identity, guardrails, logging and backups. A foundation future work can build on without rework.
Migration Sequencing
Rehost, refactor, containerize or retire, in an order set by business priority, from data center to AWS migration to post-deal consolidation.
Knowledge Retention & Handoff
Runbooks, documentation and hands-on enablement, so what your people know stays with your team after the deal and after we leave.
How We Work: The Prime Process
- 1
Discover
We name what's forcing the move: an acquisition, an end-of-life date, a cost spike or a stalled project.
- 2
Diagnose
We inventory both environments and rank workloads by business criticality, technical health and what each costs to keep as is.
- 3
Design
We set the foundation, migration order and operating model with the people who will run them.
- 4
Deliver
We migrate in phases, measure against the diagnosis and transfer runbooks and knowledge as we go.
Practitioners Who Have Held the Seat
75+ Years
Combined Hands-On Experience
250+
Successful Projects Delivered
70%
of clients bring us back for their next project
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud partner
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
Our engineers hold current certifications across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Kubernetes and Atlassian.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you approach a post-acquisition AWS migration?
We inventory both environments, rank workloads by business criticality, technical health and what each costs to keep as is, then agree what to consolidate, move, fix or retire, and who owns each piece once it's live.
Do we have to move everything to AWS?
No. Some systems should be maintained or retired, not migrated. How much of what you run today are systems you have already decided to retire, and what are you still paying to keep them? We're an AWS, Azure and Google Cloud partner, so the recommendation follows the workload.
How is the work priced?
Fixed-fee, scoped deliverables once the question is clear. No open-ended hours: you know the price before work starts. The diagnostic can be scoped as its own piece of work before anything else.
Results From Recent Work
- A database modernization designed to give the client headroom for 10x its previous traffic.
- A multi-workstream AWS portfolio for an enterprise software vendor, taking infrastructure work off its product teams so they could focus on revenue-generating development.
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