Cloud Migration Services
for UK Businesses
Progressive Robot delivers safe, structured cloud migrations that eliminate downtime risk and unlock measurable infrastructure savings. We translate your on-premise estate into a governed, secure cloud environment your teams can operate from day one.
The Three Failure Points Most Organisations Hit
Gartner reports that 60% of cloud migrations exceed budget or timeline. The root causes are consistent — and entirely preventable with the right approach.
Organisations skip proper workload discovery and dependency mapping. Hidden dependencies surface mid-migration, halting progress and inflating costs by 40–80% above initial estimates.
Migrating workloads into ungoverned cloud accounts creates immediate security exposure and FinOps debt. A properly designed landing zone — IAM, networking, logging — must exist before wave one begins.
Lift-and-shift without right-sizing and tagging discipline can result in cloud bills 2–3× higher than on-premise. FinOps governance must be embedded from day one, not retrofitted after.
What We Deliver
End-to-end migration capabilities across every migration pattern, platform, and compliance regime relevant to UK businesses.
Fastest path to cloud. Move workloads as-is to IaaS equivalents to immediately exit data-centre contracts and reduce hardware refresh cycles.
Includes:- Workload dependency mapping and wave planning
- VM right-sizing assessment and recommendations
- Network cutover plan with rollback procedure
- Post-migration smoke testing and sign-off checklist
Retain existing application logic while upgrading to managed cloud services — replacing self-managed databases, queues, and caches with PaaS equivalents.
Includes:- Database migration to RDS / Azure SQL / Cloud SQL
- Message queue migration to SQS / Service Bus
- Container lift with ECS / AKS / Cloud Run targets
- Performance regression testing pre and post cutover
Full application modernisation to serverless, microservices, and event-driven patterns. Maximum cost efficiency, scalability, and operational automation.
Includes:- Microservices decomposition and API design
- Serverless function migration (Lambda / Functions / Cloud Run)
- CI/CD pipeline rebuild with IaC (Terraform / Pulumi)
- Observability stack: logs, metrics, traces, alerting
Migrations for organisations subject to ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, GDPR, PCI-DSS, or FCA requirements. Security controls are embedded, not bolted on.
Includes:- NCSC Cloud Security Principles alignment review
- Data residency audit — UK/EU only storage guarantees
- Encryption-at-rest and in-transit validation
- Compliance evidence pack for auditors
Where full cloud migration is not feasible, we design hybrid architectures that keep sensitive workloads on-premise while connecting to public cloud for scale and resilience.
Includes:- ExpressRoute / Direct Connect private connectivity
- Active Directory / Azure AD hybrid identity
- Site-to-site VPN and BGP routing design
- Unified monitoring across on-prem and cloud tiers
Cloud costs spiral without discipline. Our FinOps engagement establishes tagging standards, reserved instance strategy, and automated anomaly alerting to keep spend predictable.
Includes:- Full cost allocation tagging policy and enforcement
- Reserved instance / savings plan purchasing strategy
- Anomaly detection and budget alert configuration
- Monthly FinOps review dashboard and reporting
Certified Across All Three Major Cloud Platforms
We hold active certifications on AWS, Azure, and GCP. Your migration uses the right tooling for your target platform — no generic playbooks.
AWS Migration Hub, Application Discovery Service, Server Migration Service, DMS, CloudEndure
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS, Lambda targets
- AWS Control Tower landing zone
- AWS Cost Explorer + Budgets + Anomaly Detection
Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration Service, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Advisor
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Azure VMs, SQL MI, AKS, Functions targets
- Azure Landing Zone (CAF) design
- Azure Cost Management + Advisor policies
Migrate for Compute Engine, Database Migration Service, Transfer Appliance, Cloud Armor
- Google Cloud Professional Architect
- GCE, Cloud SQL, GKE, Cloud Run targets
- GCP Landing Zone (CFT) design
- BigQuery billing export + recommender API
All cloud resources provisioned and managed through version-controlled IaC — no manual console configuration delivered to clients.
- Terraform (primary) — all three cloud providers
- Pulumi for TypeScript / Python stacks
- Ansible for OS-level configuration management
- GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines
Included in Every Migration Engagement
Regardless of migration type or scale, every Progressive Robot migration engagement includes these six commitments.
A named UK-based engineer owns your migration from discovery to hypercare sign-off. One point of contact, full accountability.
Every step documented in operational runbooks your team keeps permanently — architecture diagrams, cutover procedures, rollback steps.
NCSC Cloud Security Principles assessment, IAM least-privilege audit, and encryption validation before any workload goes live in the cloud.
30 days of priority support after final cutover. Incidents are triaged within 4 hours. No additional charge — it is built into every engagement.
Structured weekly status reports covering wave progress, risks, decisions, and cost tracking — sent every Friday throughout the engagement.
Audit-ready documentation covering data residency, encryption controls, access policies, and change records for ISO 27001, GDPR, or Cyber Essentials Plus.
Our Proven Migration Process
Every migration follows our structured seven-step process — each phase has a named deliverable so you always know exactly what you are receiving.
Full inventory of servers, VMs, databases, applications, and network dependencies. Nothing migrates before it is fully understood.
Each workload is scored for migration complexity and assigned a migration strategy: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retain, or retire.
Multi-account structure, IAM, VPC/networking, logging, backup policy, and security guardrails — all built and validated before wave one begins.
Workloads grouped into migration waves by dependency, business criticality, and change-window availability. Each wave has a tested rollback procedure.
Each wave is executed in a controlled maintenance window. Parallel-run validation confirms workload health before decommissioning source systems.
Post-migration right-sizing to eliminate over-provisioned resources. Tagging policy applied and cost anomaly alerting enabled before hypercare begins.
Full operational support for 30 days post-cutover. Incidents triaged within 4 hours. Structured handover sessions transfer operational ownership to your team.
Ready to Migrate Without the Risk?
200+ migrations. Zero failed cutovers. Whether you are moving 10 servers or 1,000 workloads, our structured methodology ensures your migration lands on time, on budget, and fully secure.
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