Cloud Development and Deployment Consulting Services
So you’re considering a move to the cloud. Maybe it’s because you’re upgrading antiquated IT infrastructures that inhibit speed, efficiency, and innovation. Or maybe you’re saddled with legacy hardware that gets in the way of adopting newer technology. Or maybe just you’re under constant pressure to reduce your IT costs. Whatever the reason, it might be high time you sought out a cloud or multi-cloud development partner to bring your company up to speed.
But how can you be sure you’re still responsibly addressing compliance issues, as well as ensuring a sustainable future for your software and IT endeavors? Here are the latest capabilities you should look for when looking for a cloud consulting services firm:
Cloud Migration
Migrating legacy systems to cloud solutions is no small task. You want a cloud development partner with extensive experience and expertise to deliver you a high-performance engine. Make sure they have client experience with the big three cloud-based providers: AWS, Azure, and Google. There might be other preferable options, but with experience in these three, they can truly help you reduce operational costs while improving IT infrastructure and processes.
CLOUD STRATEGY & DESIGN
Every business transforming themselves into a cloud-based company needs to have a solid strategy in place. Which apps absolutely have to move to the cloud? Which can stay locally-hosted with legacy systems? A cloud computing developer who helps make smart, case-by-case decisions here can save time and money as you make crucial product deployment decisions.
COST MANAGEMENT
If you’re not careful, you can waste an awful lot of money on cloud migration services. Some cloud deployment specialists will recommend more than you need without developing an optimized plan to match your needs. You can probably bring down your costs by not doing a full migration to new infrastructure. You just need a consulting partner to assess it intelligently.
CLOUD ANALYTICS
If implemented correctly, big data analytics can be incredibly profitable for your business. However, doing that takes a lot of diligence and understanding of your specific business. The right cloud consultant will get to know your business goals, management workflows, and technology in depth. With an experienced cloud consulting firm, you’ll get the cloud analytics you deserve.
CLOUD OPTIMIZATION
Cloud infrastructure management is a complicated world. By choosing your services wisely, you can save money and achieve unprecedented efficiency. But only with a seasoned cloud consulting developer can you opt for reserved instances, spot instances, long-term usage discounts, security service, or other. Find one who can intelligently recommend workflows that greatly enhance your system performance.
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
As you migrate to the cloud, you want a cloud software developer who can help you maximize maintainability, scalability, and security for your company or organization. Depending on your needs, you may even want one that can design and develop custom enterprise applications built with a cloud-native architecture to operate at hyper-scale.
GOOGLE, AZURE & AWS PLATFORM COMPUTING
These are the three big kahunas in cloud hosting today. A truly professional cloud consultant will advise you if there’s a smaller-scale provider that would work just as well for your needs. But if your scale requires going with the big three, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), you want a cloud software development partner who’s an industry-recognized integrator with the client roster and case studies to prove it.
KEEPING COSTS IN CHECK
You probably don’t need to move all of your apps to the cloud. You know you’re working with the right cloud solutions development firm if they tell you certain systems can stay locally-housed, so you can save money. The key is to assess at the onset of the project which apps are absolutely essential to move to the cloud and which aren’t. Seek out a vendor who demonstrates maximum transparency on this from the start. Other considerations include:
COMPLEXITY
If your desired AWS migration design involves complex functionality and detailed retrofitting to meet your new parameters (such as tight regulations within your industry), extra personnel and development time will be required, but your AWS migration consultant will advise.
PROJECT LENGTH
Every migration project has different scalability requirements that need to be identified and scoped for as you work toward moving to the cloud. For example, with your AWS migration design goals, how many services are you looking to switch over? How much can be handled by your own IT dept?
IMPLEMENTATION
Depending on how many services you’re trying to move over, as well as how complex those are and what regulations you’ll need to adapt to your AWS migration vendor will detail how those will affect budgets and timelines. If one of your goals is to spread workloads across multiple clouds while preserving connections between workloads, this adds complexity as well, but may be well worth the time and costs.
MAINTENANCE
Reaching MVP (minimum viable product) is often just the first phase of any AWS migration project. Updates in business processes, regulations and requests for new features usually require additional coding to make sure your apps stay functional in the cloud.
INFRASTRUCTURE
An expert AWS migration developer will not just execute the migration services you need, but advise on how best to house it in the cloud as well. This goes back to your AWS migration consulting firm recommending only the appropriate and most efficient services in the first place, and making sure you’re not overpaying for ones you don’t need.
The Loft Towers difference
As a premiere AWS migration company, one of our key differentiators is that we never use offshore resources. This allows us to maximize quality control while still offering peerless services at competitive rates. We get the job done right the first time, so costly rewrites don’t come up later. As an agile mid-sized AWS migration firm, we focus on maintaining an efficient team of highly trained and dedicated engineers.
Avoiding project failure
Delivering industry-leading Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration services always involves potential obstacles. But by taking every precaution imaginable, it’s easier to avoid AWS migration delays, cloud computing frustrations, and unnecessary budget overages. Aligning on expectations, timelines, and logistics with your partner is 90% of the battle. To reach your expectations, we work with our clients to make sure they have the right support team to help them on their end to ensure long-term viability. Be aware of the following factors:
UPFRONT PLANNING
Your consulting Amazon Web Services (AWS) migration developer needs to know your goals, related industry regulations, including rights reserved laws, estimated budget, and your approval process up-front to help stay on track and avoid surprises.
DEADLINES
If your AWS consulting migration partner feels the proposed timing is unrealistically tight to provide the best AWS migration services, the best move is to suggest an alternate timeline even before the project kicks off.
ITERATIVE PROCESS
With an AWS consulting migration firm that believes in an iterative development process, you’ll see multiple iterations of the migration progress and cloud services as you go, allowing check-ins throughout. Regular deliverables and demos ensure a healthy awareness of the migration progress’s best practices and a consistent feedback loop, so there are no surprises.
COMMUNICATION
Migrating any type of software involves constant back and forth. With your commitment to eliminating lag-time and providing smooth, efficient, timely feedback throughout, we can complete your project solutions on time and budget.
A smarter collaboration process
After years of successful AWS migration projects, we’ve learned that the best results begin with us all being on the same page at the start. So we go out of our way to get to know your goals, end-users, logistics, variables, and timelines as deeply as possible before we begin. The more we know upfront, the less backtracking later on in the AWS migration and cloud services solutions process. Here’s our 5-step action plan:
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DISCOVERY
The first phase is the meeting of the minds. Here’s where our consulting AWS experts get to know your vision, find out how it aligns with our skills and experience, and truly do our homework before beginning our AWS migration services. Our AWS and cloud migration founders oversee every step for quality control.
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ESTIMATE
We kick off each project with an upfront agreement on cost and timing. We’ll offer a plan for AWS migration consulting solutions that will be truly worth the investment, providing specific cloud and migration services details about what you can hold us accountable for at each phase.
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ARCHITECT
Our principal skill set, as an AWS migration consulting company, resides here. Our team gets to work, using only the help of in-house developers, applying the right tools and strategies to make your AWS migration efforts a success. And our online project management and consulting services portal help to provide transparency throughout the process.
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BUILD
Here’s where our AWS migration architects and consulting developers bring your vision to reality. We loop in your team, give them the reigns, get real-time feedback, and adjust, making sure you get the AWS migration solutions services you’re looking for.
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LAUNCH
We’ll be right beside you as you bring your AWS solution into the world. This is where you and your customers will truly reap the benefits of working with a top-tier AWS migration consulting developer. And as your company grows, we can help you make solutions services updates to keep things running at peak efficiency.
A range of industry experience
We’ve completed AWS migration services for the following industries:
