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CLOUD MIGRATION CONSULTING

Cloud Migration Consulting Services Built Around Your Workloads

Most migration vendors sell you one plan: move everything to the cloud. We start by finding out which of your workloads actually belong there. Citrusbug's cloud migration consulting services assess, plan, and execute migrations to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud around what each system actually needs, not a template.

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Cloud Migration Consulting Services We Offer

Our cloud migration consulting services cover everything from the first workload audit to the FinOps review six months after cutover.

Workload Assessment and Migration Strategy

We audit your existing infrastructure, map application dependencies, and score each workload against the 6 Rs framework before recommending a single move. The output is a migration roadmap with a TCO estimate, not a sales deck.

Landing Zone and Architecture Design

We design the account structure, network segmentation, and identity model your workloads will actually run on, built for enterprise scale rather than pulled from a template.

Migration Execution Across the 6 Rs

Whether a workload needs a straight rehost or a full rearchitect, our engineers execute the migration with a tested rollback plan and a defined downtime window. Once it’s live, our DevOps services team owns the deployment pipeline going forward, instead of leaving it half-configured.

Post-Migration Optimization and FinOps

Once workloads are live, we tune autoscaling, right-size compute, and set up cloud cost optimization reporting so cloud spend stays visible instead of surprising your CFO in month four.

Make Your Cloud Migration a Strategic Move

Get expert guidance to assess your current environment, define the right migration approach, and reduce disruption throughout the transition.

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Why "Move Everything to the Cloud" Stopped Being Good Advice

A few years ago, the advice was simple: get off-premises, get elastic, get modern. Most of that advice still holds for workloads with genuinely variable demand. It stops holding for the steady-state, high-utilization systems that a lot of enterprises migrated anyway, because migrating everything was easier to sell than migrating the right things.

That’s part of why over 80% of enterprises now say they expect to move at least some workloads back off public cloud in the next year. The problem was never the cloud itself. It was treating every workload the same. Real cloud migration consulting starts from that assessment, not a sales pitch for moving everything. A proper engagement should tell you which systems belong in the cloud, which belong on dedicated infrastructure, and which aren’t worth touching yet, before a single server moves.

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Picking the Right Cloud Migration Path for Each Workload

We assess every workload against the 6 Rs before recommending a plan, and we'll tell you plainly when the right answer for a given system is "not yet" or "not at all."

Rehost

  • The workload moves as-is, with minimal code changes, onto cloud infrastructure. Fastest path, lowest short-term cost, best for systems under time pressure or with a hard on-premises exit deadline.

Replatform

  • Small, targeted changes let the workload take advantage of managed cloud services, like swapping a self-managed database for a managed one, without a full rebuild.

Refactor

  • The application is restructured to run cloud-native, usually to fix a real bottleneck rather than for its own sake. This is often the right approach when cloud modernization is needed alongside migration.

Rearchitect

  • The workload is redesigned around cloud-native patterns, microservices, and managed data services, for systems where the current architecture is the actual constraint on growth.

Repurchase

  • The workload is replaced with a SaaS or managed equivalent instead of migrated, when the custom system was never a differentiator worth maintaining.

Retire

  • The workload is decommissioned instead of moved, because a migration assessment sometimes finds a system nobody needs anymore. We’ll say so.

How a Cloud Migration Actually Moves From Assessment to Cutover

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Workload and Dependency Assessment

We inventory applications, infrastructure, and data, then map every dependency between them. This surfaces the risks a spreadsheet audit misses, the third-party integration nobody documented, the batch job that only runs on the third of the month, the service two teams both think they own.

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Cloud Platform and Landing Zone Selection

Based on your compliance requirements, existing vendor relationships, and workload profile, we recommend AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, or a specific split across more than one, and design the account structure and network layout before any workload touches it.

3

Migration Path Selection Per Workload

Every workload gets assigned a 6 Rs classification with a documented rationale. Nothing moves as "just lift and shift" by default. If rehosting genuinely is the right call for a given system, we say so and move on rather than padding the plan.

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Architecture and Security Design

We build the target architecture, IAM policies, and network controls before migration begins, not as a retrofit afterward. This includes the audit trail and access logging that current data residency expectations require as a deliverable, not an afterthought.

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Migration Execution and Validation

Workloads move on a defined downtime window with a tested rollback plan. Functional testing, performance validation, and data integrity checks run before we call any workload done, not after a client reports something broke.

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Post-Migration Optimization

In the first 30 to 90 days after cutover, we tune resource allocation, validate cost against the original TCO estimate, and hand over runbooks your team can actually operate from, before we step back.

Cloud Migration for Regulated and Compliance-Driven Workloads

Moving a regulated workload changes where your compliance obligations actually live, and getting that wrong shows up in an audit, not a demo. We design migrations around the standards your workloads are actually held to, current DORA requirements for EU financial and ICT third-party operations, the EU Data Act's restrictions on foreign-government data access, HIPAA for healthcare data, and SOC 2 for the access controls auditors expect to see documented.

HIPAA-aligned data handling for PHI workloads SOC 2 Type II control mapping carried through migration Data residency and audit logging built in, not bolted on DORA and EU Data Act coverage for regulated EU workloads

The Cloud Foundation We Build Before Migration

A migration plan is only as good as the landing zone it lands in. Before any workload moves, we design the multi-account structure, identity model, and network boundaries that will host it, so the architecture isn't something your team has to fix six months after go-live.

  • Least-privilege IAM enforced across every account
  • Infrastructure as code via Terraform or OpenTofu
  • Multi-account guardrails that limit blast radius
  • Automated backup and disaster recovery failover paths

A Migration Strategy Based on What Your Workloads Actually Need

Assessment Comes First

We scope and price the assessment separately from execution. That means the recommendation isn't shaped by needing to sell you a bigger migration than your workloads actually justify.

Retire and Repurchase Are Real Outcomes

Some workloads in an assessment come back with a recommendation to decommission or replace, not migrate. We put that in writing even when it means a smaller engagement.

Cost-Optimized From the First Architecture Decision

Cloud spend gets designed in at the landing zone stage, autoscaling policies, storage tiering, reserved capacity, not left as a FinOps cleanup project for six months post-launch.

How Much Does Cloud Migration Consulting Services Cost?

The cost of cloud migration consulting services depends on workload count, data volume, infrastructure complexity, and compliance scope. Most enterprise migration engagements land between $40,000 and $200,000+, depending on how much of the 6 Rs work involves refactoring versus a straightforward rehost.








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    Choose the Scope That Matches Your Enterprise Cloud Migration

    Cloud Readiness Assessment

    Cloud Readiness Assessment

    Workload audit, dependency mapping, and 6 Rs classification with a documented migration roadmap and TCO estimate.

    • Full application and infrastructure inventory
    • Written migration path recommendation per workload
    Assessment Plus Migration Execution

    Assessment Plus Migration Execution

    Everything in the assessment, plus full execution: landing zone build, migration, and validated cutover.

    • Landing zone and architecture design included
    • Tested rollback plan for every workload
    Full Migration Plus Managed Optimization

    Full Migration Plus Managed Optimization

    Assessment and execution, plus 90 days of post-migration tuning and a transition into ongoing cloud support.

    • FinOps review and cost tuning included
    • Runbook handover with optional managed continuation

    What You Get at the End of a Cloud Migration Engagement

    A successful migration should leave your team with a clear understanding of what was moved, why it was moved, how it is supported, and what comes next. Every engagement includes the documentation, architecture decisions, and operational runbooks your team needs to manage the environment after migration.

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      Workload Assessment Report covering dependencies, risks, and recommended migration paths

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      Migration Roadmap and TCO Analysis with sequencing, timelines, and projected cloud costs

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      Landing Zone Documentation covering accounts, networking, identity, security, and governance

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      Cutover and Rollback Runbooks for controlled production transitions and recovery

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      Post-Migration Support to resolve issues and stabilize workloads after go-live

    Why Enterprises Choose Citrusbug for Cloud Migration

    Cost-Optimized From Day One

    Cost-Optimized From Day One

    Cloud spend is designed into the architecture during the landing zone build, not addressed after your first surprising bill. Autoscaling, storage tiering, and reserved capacity get planned before go-live.

    Round-the-Clock SLA Support

    Round-the-Clock SLA Support

    Post-migration issues don’t wait for business hours, and neither do we. Optional L1/L2/L3 SLA coverage picks up where the 30-day handoff window ends.

    Daily Migration Visibility

    Daily Migration Visibility

    You get a running view of what moved, what’s queued, and what’s blocked, updated daily during active migration windows, not buried in a periodic status report.

    Workload-Level Honesty

    Workload-Level Honesty

    We tell you when a workload shouldn’t move yet, or at all, even when that means a smaller engagement than the one we quoted at the start.

    Senior Architects on Every Migration

    Senior Architects on Every Migration

    Migration decisions get made by engineers who’ve run cutovers before, not assigned to whoever’s available that sprint.

    Secure by Design Delivery

    Secure by Design Delivery

    Our Secure ADLC methodology embeds security review into every migration phase, not as a pre-launch audit that finds problems too late to fix cheaply.

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    FAQs on Cloud Migration Consulting Services

    How much do cloud migration consulting services cost?

    Most enterprise engagements range from $40,000 to $250,000+, depending on workload count, data volume, and how much refactoring versus straight rehosting is involved.

    How long does a typical enterprise cloud migration take?

    Assessment usually runs 3 to 6 weeks. Full migration timelines range from 8 weeks for a focused rehost to 6+ months for multi-workload rearchitecture.

    Do you migrate to AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, or just one platform?

    All three, plus hybrid and multi-cloud setups. Platform choice comes out of the assessment, not a predetermined preference.

    What happens if a workload doesn't actually make sense to move?

    We say so in the assessment report. Retire and repurchase are valid recommendations, and we'd rather scope a smaller engagement than migrate something that shouldn't move.

    Who handles rollback if a migration cutover fails?

    Every workload gets a tested rollback plan before cutover begins, executed by the same team that built the migration, not handed off cold.

    Can you migrate compliance-sensitive workloads like HIPAA or PCI data?

    Yes. Compliance requirements are built into the landing zone architecture and access controls before migration, not layered on after.

    Do we need a full migration, or can we start with just an assessment?

    You can start with an assessment alone. Many clients use the roadmap and TCO estimate internally before deciding whether to proceed to execution.

    What's included in post-migration support after go-live?

    A 30-day active support window covering optimization and validation, with optional ongoing L1/L2/L3 SLA coverage after that.

    Do you work with our existing DevOps or infrastructure team, or replace them?

    We work alongside your team by default. Handover documentation and runbooks are built assuming your engineers will operate the environment.

    How do you decide between rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring a workload?

    Based on the dependency mapping, business criticality, and growth trajectory uncovered during assessment, each workload gets an individual 6 Rs recommendation with the reasoning documented.

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