01 / cloud architecture and migration

Move to the cloud without moving the risk with it.

Assessment, landing zone, migration and managed cloud, delivered by a team whose architects have done it inside a regulated bank. AWS first. Azure where your estate is already Microsoft-led.

Most cloud projects fail in the gaps between the people who plan them, the people who build them and the people who have to run them afterwards. TrusTrak closes those gaps by having one accountable team do all three.

We start with an honest assessment of what you have, build a landing zone that your auditors will accept, move workloads in an order that keeps the business running, and then stay on as the retainer that watches cost and posture every month.

If part of your estate still runs on Windows Server 2016 or SQL Server 2016, this is the line to start with. SQL Server 2016 has already left extended support and Windows Server 2016 follows on 12 January 2027. Because the two have to move together, the planning needs to start now, not in December.

who it is for
  • Organisations with on-premise or hosted servers that are approaching end of support
  • Teams that have cloud accounts already but no landing zone, no guardrails and no idea what the bill is for
  • Charities and SMEs that need a senior architect without a senior architect on payroll
  • Mid-market and enterprise teams that want a scoped architecture review before committing to a programme
what is included

Cloud readiness and migration assessment

credited against a migration

A fixed-scope review of your estate: what you run, what depends on what, what can move as it is, what needs changing, and the order to do it in. You get a written plan you can act on with us or without us.

Landing zone and Well-Architected baseline

compliance ready

Accounts, identity, MFA, logging, encryption, networking and backup, built to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and laid out so ISO 27001, SOC 2 and Cyber Essentials evidence falls out of it.

Migration of 5 to 30 workloads

rollback gated

Servers, databases, file shares and applications moved in waves, with client-verified backups and a rehearsed rollback as the gate before every cutover. Larger estates are scoped per engagement.

Managed cloud and FinOps retainer

monthly

A monthly cost and security posture review with the changes made, not just reported. Right-sizing, reserved capacity, unused resources, drifted permissions, missing patches.

Senior architect days

as needed

For the decisions you cannot get wrong: a design review, a vendor selection, a difficult integration, or a second opinion on a proposal from a larger supplier.

how it runs
  1. 01
    Readiness call

    Thirty minutes. We tell you plainly what you need and whether you need us yet.

  2. 02
    Assessment

    Inventory, dependencies, risks, costs and a wave plan. Delivered as a document you own.

  3. 03
    Landing zone

    Built as code, reviewed with you, and documented so your team or your auditor can follow it.

  4. 04
    Migration waves

    Lowest-risk workloads first. Backups verified and rollback rehearsed before each cutover.

  5. 05
    Run and review

    Monthly cost and posture review on the retainer, or a clean handover to your team.

what you get out of it
  • Off unsupported operating systems and databases before the January 2027 deadline
  • A landing zone that produces audit evidence instead of audit findings
  • A cloud bill you can explain line by line
  • Backups you have actually seen restore
questions we get asked
AWS or Azure?

AWS first, because that is where the deepest experience is. If your organisation already runs on Microsoft 365, Entra ID and SQL Server, Azure is often the better fit and we will say so on the call.

What happens to our data during the move?

Nothing moves until you have verified a backup yourself and we have rehearsed the rollback. That gate is contractual, not a nice-to-have. Data loss is the risk we design against first.

Can you work with our existing IT provider?

Yes, and we usually do. We design and build, they keep the day-to-day running, and the handover is documented so nobody is dependent on us.

Do you publish prices?

Not on the site. Every engagement is scoped on a call first, then quoted in GBP, USD, EUR or your local currency. Assessments are fixed fee and credited against the programme.

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next step

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