A migration is a single event. Optimisation is a discipline. The organisations that get the most out of the cloud are the ones who treat the post-migration phase as the real beginning of the work — not the end of a project.
Migration done well
- Portfolio rationalisation first. Decommission what shouldn't have been migrated in the first place. Most estates have 10–20% of workloads that quietly cost more than they're worth.
- Right-size before you move. The cloud is elastic, but only if you ask it to be. Defaulted instance sizes are how organisations pay 3× for capacity they don't use.
- Pick the right 'R'. Rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire. The mix matters far more than the headline 'we moved to cloud'.
- Build the FinOps muscle on day one. Tagging, allocation, showback — not a Q4 panic when the bill arrives.
Where the real savings live
Reserved instances and savings plans are the obvious lever — and most organisations leave a third of the available discount on the table. The less obvious wins are architectural: managed services instead of self-run databases, serverless where workloads are spiky, storage tiering, and ruthless attention to data egress.
Hybrid is not a dirty word
For regulated workloads, latency-sensitive operations, or specific data residency requirements, hybrid is still the right answer. The mistake is treating hybrid as a permanent state of indecision rather than a deliberate architecture.
How we help
Workload assessment, migration design, FinOps installation, and the unglamorous but high-value work of continuous optimisation. Most of our clients see the bill come down within a quarter — and performance improve at the same time.