Cost Management

A realistic UK cloud migration lands between roughly £12,000 and £120,000 one-off, and almost none of it sits on a single invoice. This guide splits the number into six buckets — discovery, landing zone, workload movement, application remediation, parallel running and ninety days of optimisation — gives budget bands by company size, sets out a six to eight month timeline from discovery to decommissioning, and lists the hidden expenses that quietly wreck estimates: egress charges, licence mobility, the second backup copy and the months when both estates are live at once.