Azure and AWS migration
Move workloads safely — and modernise where it makes sense.
Migrating workloads to cloud platforms such as Azure or AWS is a critical step for many institutions — but it is also one of the highest-risk points in the cloud lifecycle.
Uncontrolled migrations can introduce instability, increase costs, and create environments that are difficult to govern or support. Successful migration requires careful sequencing, clear risk management, and clarity on which changes are necessary.
Our Azure and AWS migration service helps education and research organisations move workloads safely to cloud platforms, while laying the groundwork for future optimisation.
Benefits
This service focuses on stability first, ensuring workloads are moved securely and predictably before introducing further change.
- Reduce migration risk: we identify and manage technical and operational risks before workloads move
- Maintain service continuity: migration is planned to minimise disruption to teaching, learning, and research services
- Avoid unnecessary complexity: we focus on right-sized solutions rather than over-engineering
- Create a platform for future improvement: modernisation is introduced selectively, once workloads are stable and understood
What the service covers
The service can support full migration programmes or targeted workload moves.
Assessment and planning
- Workload discovery and readiness assessment
- Migration sequencing and dependency mapping
- Risk and impact analysis
- Workload discovery and readiness assessment
- Migration sequencing and dependency mapping
- Risk and impact analysis
Workload migration
- Migration of infrastructure and applications
- Support for lift-and-shift and light modernisation approaches
- Validation of migrated workloads
- Migration of infrastructure and applications
- Support for lift-and-shift and light modernisation approaches
- Validation of migrated workloads
Security and governance alignment
- Baseline security and access considerations
- Alignment with cloud governance models
- Integration with wider security services
- Baseline security and access considerations
- Alignment with cloud governance models
- Integration with wider security services
Stabilisation and handover
- Post-migration monitoring and issue resolution
- Documentation and operational handover
- Preparation for ongoing management or optimisation
- Post-migration monitoring and issue resolution
- Documentation and operational handover
- Preparation for ongoing management or optimisation
How to buy and get support
Our Azure and AWS migration services are available through G-Cloud and other approved public-sector procurement routes.
Your relationship manager can help define the right scope and migration approach.
Getting started
Contact your relationship manager or make a customer enquiry to find out how we can support your Azure or AWS migration.