Cloud Consulting & Implementation

Cloud That
Works for
Your Business.
Not Just on Paper.

Cloud adoption fails when it's driven by vendors rather than strategy. We design, migrate, and operate cloud environments that are architecturally sound, financially governed, and secure from day one — built around what your business actually needs to run.

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Service Overview

Cloud Consulting & Implementation

40% Average cloud cost reduction after FinOps optimisation engagement
8–16 wk Typical time from migration strategy to first workloads in cloud production
99.9%+ Uptime target for cloud architectures we design with HA and DR built in
Multi-cloud Platform-agnostic — we work with AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments
AWS Azure GCP FinOps DevSecOps Landing Zone Kubernetes Cloud Security
01 — Overview

What Cloud Consulting
Means at Metamorphex

Most cloud projects overpromise and underdeliver — not because cloud is the wrong answer, but because the migration was rushed, the architecture wasn't designed for the workload, costs weren't governed, and the security model was retrofitted rather than designed in. The result is a cloud environment that costs more than the datacentre it replaced and is harder to operate.

We treat cloud as an architectural discipline, not a lift-and-shift exercise. Every migration engagement starts with a workload-level assessment — what moves first, what needs to be re-platformed, what should be re-architected, and what should stay on-premise. We apply the 6Rs framework rigorously, and we don't let commercial pressure from cloud providers drive the sequencing.

Our cloud practice covers the complete lifecycle: cloud strategy and readiness assessment, landing zone design and account governance, workload migration, cloud-native application development, DevSecOps pipeline design, FinOps cost optimisation, and ongoing cloud operations. We are platform-agnostic — AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid architectures all sit within our practice, and we select the right platform for each workload, not the one we happen to be certified on.

Security is embedded from the architecture phase — not added at the end. Every landing zone we design implements cloud security best practices: least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, encryption at rest and in transit, and cloud-native security tooling integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.

Who this service is for
  • 🏭

    Enterprises Beginning Cloud Adoption

    Organisations moving their first significant workloads to the cloud and needing a structured strategy, governance model, and migration programme rather than an ad-hoc start.

  • 💸

    Cloud-Mature Orgs with Cost Problems

    Companies already in the cloud facing runaway costs, architectural sprawl, and poor visibility into what's being spent and why. FinOps and architecture remediation specialists.

  • 🚀

    Scaling Technology Companies

    SaaS and product companies outgrowing their initial cloud architecture and needing to re-platform for scale, reliability, and multi-region operation without rebuilding from scratch.

  • 🏛️

    Public Sector & Regulated Industries

    Government agencies and regulated financial or healthcare organisations navigating cloud adoption within data sovereignty, regulatory, and security constraints.

  • 🔄

    Legacy Datacentre Exits

    Organisations with expiring datacentre contracts or ageing on-premise infrastructure needing a managed, risk-controlled exit to the cloud under deadline pressure.

02 — Capabilities

What We Do

Six core capability areas — from first-cloud strategy through to managed multi-cloud operations and continuous optimisation.

01

Cloud Strategy & Readiness Assessment

The architecture and business case work that prevents costly mistakes before they happen — a rigorous assessment of what cloud will and won't solve for your organisation.

  • Cloud maturity assessment and readiness scoring
  • Workload portfolio inventory and classification
  • TCO analysis — on-premise vs cloud vs hybrid
  • Platform selection and vendor landscape assessment (AWS vs Azure vs GCP)
  • Cloud governance model and operating model design
02

Landing Zone & Account Architecture

The foundational cloud environment — governance, network topology, identity, logging, and security controls — that every workload will rely on. Getting this right at the start prevents years of remediation.

  • Multi-account / multi-subscription architecture design
  • Network architecture — hub-spoke, transit gateway, VPC/VNet design
  • Identity and access management (IAM) design and baseline policies
  • Centralised logging, monitoring, and alerting infrastructure
  • Cloud security baseline — CIS benchmarks, SCPs, Azure Policy
03

Cloud Migration & Workload Modernisation

Structured migration execution using the 6Rs framework — ensuring each workload is migrated via the right path, with no unnecessary risk and no technical debt carried forward.

  • Application dependency mapping and migration wave planning
  • Rehost (lift-and-shift) execution with automated tooling
  • Re-platform: database modernisation, containerisation, PaaS adoption
  • Re-architect: microservices decomposition, serverless re-design
  • Cutover planning, rollback procedures, and hypercare support
04

DevSecOps & Cloud-Native Development

CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and security-integrated development workflows that let engineering teams deploy faster without accumulating security and reliability debt.

  • CI/CD pipeline design and implementation (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins)
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Pulumi, AWS CDK, Bicep)
  • Container orchestration — Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) design and deployment
  • DevSecOps toolchain: SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets detection
  • GitOps workflow design and environment promotion pipeline
05

FinOps & Cloud Cost Optimisation

Cloud cost governance that gives engineering and finance teams shared visibility and accountability — transforming cloud spend from an unpredictable cost centre to a managed, optimised investment.

  • Cloud cost visibility and tagging strategy implementation
  • Reserved instance and savings plan optimisation
  • Right-sizing and idle resource identification and remediation
  • FinOps operating model and cost allocation framework design
  • Unit economics dashboard for cloud cost per business metric
06

Cloud Security & Compliance

Cloud-native security controls, compliance posture management, and ongoing security monitoring — ensuring your cloud environment meets both internal security standards and external regulatory requirements.

  • Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) deployment and tuning
  • Cloud workload protection and runtime security (CWPP)
  • Data sovereignty and residency compliance architecture
  • Cloud compliance mapping: ISO 27001, DPDPA, RBI, SEBI
  • Cloud incident response playbook design and testing
03 — Migration Methodology

The 6Rs: How We Decide
What Moves and How

Not every workload should move to the cloud the same way — and not every workload should move at all. The 6Rs framework gives us a disciplined, workload-by-workload decision methodology that prevents both over-engineering and under-investing in modernisation.

We apply the 6Rs during the assessment phase, producing a migration portfolio map that sequences workloads by value and risk, with the right migration path assigned to each. This becomes the project plan — not a vendor-provided template, but a plan derived from your actual workload landscape.

Rehost
Lift & Shift
Move the workload as-is to cloud infrastructure. Fast and low-risk. Best for stable, non-critical systems where speed matters more than optimisation.
Replatform
Lift & Reshape
Minor adjustments to take advantage of cloud capabilities — e.g. moving to a managed database service — without changing core architecture.
Repurchase
Drop & Shop
Replace with a SaaS alternative. Often the right answer for commodity functions — CRM, ITSM, HR systems — where custom code adds cost, not value.
Refactor
Re-architect
Redesign for cloud-native patterns — microservices, serverless, containers. Highest effort but delivers the greatest scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.
Retain
Keep On-Prem
Some workloads should not move — latency-sensitive OT systems, regulatory constraints, or near-end-of-life applications better retired than migrated.
Retire
Decommission
Identify and decommission applications that no longer serve a business purpose. Typically 10–20% of enterprise application portfolios qualify. Pure cost elimination.
04 — Cloud Platforms

Where We Work

We are certified across all three major cloud platforms and select the right environment for each workload based on your requirements — not our preferred vendor relationship.

Amazon Web Services

The broadest cloud platform, with the deepest set of managed services and the largest partner ecosystem. Our primary platform for analytics-heavy, AI/ML, and high-throughput transaction workloads.

AWS Control Tower & Organizations — landing zone governance
EKS, ECS, Lambda — container and serverless orchestration
SageMaker — ML model training and deployment
AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty — cloud-native security
Aurora, Redshift, DynamoDB — managed data services
CloudFormation, CDK — infrastructure as code

Microsoft Azure

The preferred platform for Microsoft-centric enterprises, hybrid cloud scenarios, and organisations requiring deep Active Directory integration and Office 365 ecosystem alignment.

Azure Landing Zone — enterprise-scale architecture
AKS — Azure Kubernetes Service orchestration
Azure OpenAI, Azure ML — AI and ML services
Microsoft Sentinel — cloud-native SIEM and SOAR
Azure SQL, Cosmos DB, Synapse Analytics
Bicep, Azure DevOps — IaC and CI/CD pipelines

Google Cloud Platform

Google's cloud platform leads on data analytics, BigQuery, and AI/ML capabilities. The natural choice for organisations with Workspace ecosystems or data-first workloads at scale.

GCP Landing Zone — resource hierarchy and org policies
GKE — Google Kubernetes Engine production deployments
Vertex AI — managed ML platform and model registry
BigQuery, Dataflow, Pub/Sub — data analytics at scale
Cloud Armor, Security Command Center
Terraform, Cloud Build — IaC and deployment pipelines
05 — FinOps

Cloud Cost Is an
Engineering Problem

Cloud bills grow in proportion to how much engineering teams don't understand them. The root cause of cloud cost overruns is almost never wasteful spending — it's insufficient visibility, missing accountability, and architecture choices made without cost consequences.

Our FinOps practice brings together engineering, finance, and product teams around a shared, real-time view of cloud spend — with the tagging, allocation, and forecasting infrastructure that makes accountability possible.

A typical FinOps engagement identifies 30–40% waste in an existing cloud environment within the first two weeks. We don't just find it — we remediate it, instrument it, and build the governance model that prevents it recurring.

🔍

Visibility

Cost allocation tagging, showback and chargeback models, and real-time dashboards that map every dollar of cloud spend to a team, product, or environment.

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Optimisation

Right-sizing, reserved instances, savings plans, spot instance strategy, and architectural recommendations that reduce unit cost without compromising reliability.

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Governance

Budget alerts, anomaly detection, approval workflows for large spend events, and the FinOps operating model that keeps engineering and finance aligned on a shared number.

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Unit Economics

Cloud cost per transaction, per customer, per API call — the metrics that connect infrastructure spend to business outcomes and enable informed architecture trade-offs.

06 — How We Work

Our Engagement Process

A six-phase model from cloud readiness assessment to a fully operational, continuously optimised cloud environment.

01

Assess

Workload portfolio inventory, cloud readiness scoring, dependency mapping, and TCO analysis. We produce a prioritised migration portfolio and business case before any cloud spend begins.

02

Strategise

Platform selection, target architecture design, landing zone specification, governance model, and a phased migration roadmap. Security controls and FinOps foundations are scoped in this phase — not added later.

03

Build Foundation

Landing zone deployment — account structure, network topology, IAM, logging, security baseline, and CI/CD pipeline. All infrastructure deployed as code from day one, with no manual console configuration.

04

Migrate

Wave-based migration execution — rehost, replatform, and refactor workloads in sequence. Each wave validated against availability and performance targets before the next begins.

05

Optimise

Post-migration cost and performance optimisation — right-sizing, reserved capacity purchase, architecture review, and FinOps dashboard commissioning. Typically identifies 30–40% cost reduction opportunity.

06

Operate

Cloud operations handover — runbooks, monitoring, alerting, cost governance cadence, and knowledge transfer. We design the operating model so your team can run it confidently without permanent external support.

07 — Outcomes

What You Walk Away With

40% Average cloud cost reduction after FinOps optimisation engagement
99.9%+ Uptime target met by cloud architectures with HA and DR built in from day one
8 wk Typical time from strategy sign-off to first production workloads live in cloud
Zero Manual console configuration — all infrastructure deployed as code from day one

A Cloud Environment You Can Trust and Explain

Architecture documented, infrastructure codified, costs tagged and allocated. A cloud estate your engineering team understands, your finance team can budget, and your auditors can inspect.

Migration Without Business Disruption

Phased migration waves with rollback procedures, parallel-running periods, and hypercare support — designed so that business operations continue uninterrupted throughout the transition.

Security Built In, Not Bolted On

A cloud environment that implements security by design — zero-trust network architecture, encrypted-by-default data stores, least-privilege IAM, and continuous compliance posture monitoring.

Engineering Teams That Can Move Faster

Self-service infrastructure, automated CI/CD pipelines, and golden-path templates that let your developers deploy new capabilities in hours rather than weeks — without bypassing the guardrails.

Cloud Spend That Makes Sense

A FinOps-governed cloud environment where every significant spend is visible, attributed, forecasted, and optimised — eliminating the budget surprises that erode confidence in cloud adoption.

08 — Related Services

Often Paired With

Cloud migration is most successful when it is part of a broader transformation, with security and governance built in from the start.

Ready to Build
Cloud That Actually
Delivers?

Book a no-obligation cloud readiness assessment. We'll review your current workload landscape, identify migration priorities and quick wins, and outline a practical, risk-managed path to the cloud — in a single session.