Are you tied to AWS, Azure, or a specific provider?

No. The recommendation follows your workloads and economics, not a hyperscaler quota. We size each workload's fit for public cloud, private, or hybrid options on its own merits, so the platform choice is justified by cost, security, and operations rather than a partner incentive.

Who performs the migration?

A selected delivery partner — for example XCloud — carries out the migration, with AMS defining the requirement, running the selection, and assuring the work against the agreed outcomes. You keep one accountable relationship while specialists handle the execution.

Will this reduce our cloud spend?

We baseline cost first and identify savings from there. Most estates carry meaningful waste — idle resources, oversized instances, untagged spend — that a FinOps review surfaces quickly, and we design the governance so spend stays visible and owned rather than rediscovered on the invoice.

Do you recommend specific vendors or partners?

Only after requirements and evaluation criteria are agreed. AMS is independent of product quotas, so when modernisation needs external delivery we compare suitable premium partners, document the rationale, and stay involved to assure delivery against the original outcome.

Consulting · Modernise with control

Cloud Modernisation: A secure, supportable path off ageing platforms.

Move from ageing platforms and fragmented cloud adoption to a modern, secure, cost-controlled operating environment — with an independent view of what to migrate, retire, or keep.

All consulting

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Workloads assessed: 15+
Avg. cloud cost reduction identified: 40+
Multi-cloud & hybrid experience: 30%

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The challenge

Why this matters now.

Cloud bills climb while agility doesn't. Lift-and-shift without a target operating model leaves organisations with more complexity, not less.

Every migration decision made without a target operating model compounds the problem — duplicated platforms, unclear ownership, and a bill nobody can explain. AMS gives you an independent view of what to migrate, retire, or keep, so the estate you end up with is simpler, cheaper to run, and supportable by your own team.

Outcomes

What better looks like.

A clear migrate, retire, or re-platform decision per workload

A secure landing-zone design

A cost and FinOps baseline

A realistic migration sequence

An operating model that's supportable after go-live

Our approach

A disciplined route from question to outcome.

Assess

Understand the estate — workloads, cost, and dependencies.

Design

Define the target architecture, landing zone, and security.

Plan

Sequence migration waves and manage risk.

Assure

Oversee delivery and establish FinOps discipline.

Practical scope

What the engagement produces.

Cloud readiness assessment
Application disposition map
Target architecture & landing-zone principles
Migration plan
FinOps/cost baseline

Engagement formats

Choose the right starting point.

Three ways to work with AMS, scoped to where you are today.

Focused diagnostic

Best when you need a cloud readiness assessment and workload disposition view.

2–4 weeks

Defined project

Best when you need a target architecture and migration wave plan ready for delivery.

6–16 weeks

Advisory retainer

Best when you want independent governance of cloud cost, security, and partner delivery.

Ongoing, reviewed quarterly

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An outcome in practice.

Situation: [Placeholder] A professional services firm migrated to cloud but saw costs rise 40% with no service improvement.
What AMS did: [Placeholder] AMS reviewed workloads, redesigned guardrails and the cost model, and re-planned the remaining waves.
Result: [Placeholder] Monthly cloud spend fell 28% while availability targets were met.

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Premium partner capability

Independent advice before specialist delivery.

If implementation or ongoing operations are required, AMS evaluates and coordinates premium partners in these capability areas.

Managed IT ServicesManaged IT delivered exclusively by XCloud, with support, monitoring, cloud operations, and lifecycle management governed by AMS.Managed Security ServicesSpecialist cyber defence and security operations, selected around your actual risk and governed by AMS so coverage maps to exposure.Data Center ServicesColocation, hosting, and infrastructure operations delivered by XCloud and governed by AMS, so workloads sit in the right place.

Frequently asked

Cloud Modernisation questions, answered.

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