Spark EPC - Cloud Strategy Assessment for AWS Adoption

The Cloud Strategy Assessment is a flexible, modular consulting engagement designed to align your cloud strategy with business objectives and transformation priorities. Whether you are planning your first migration or optimising an existing AWS environment, this assessment delivers a clear, actionable roadmap for cloud adoption.

Business and Cloud Strategy Evaluates business objectives, cloud adoption drivers, and transformation priorities. Establishes executive sponsorship and governance practices to define a clear roadmap for success. Reviews alignment with frameworks such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework and AWS Cloud Adoption Framework.

Cloud Readiness Assesses organisational readiness, team skillsets, operating model suitability, and change management requirements. Determines maturity levels across identity (AWS IAM, AWS Organizations), networking, security (AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config), and operations to identify areas for growth.

Cloud Business Case Builds a data-driven foundation for cloud adoption including Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis using AWS Cost Explorer benchmarks, Operational Level Agreements (OLAs), and a prioritised migration strategy with workload categorisation.

This is a timeboxed consulting engagement structured across defined phases:

• Phase 1 - Discovery: Stakeholder interviews, documentation review, and environment assessment
• Phase 2 - Analysis: Evaluation of current IT landscape, governance frameworks, security policies, and operational processes
• Phase 3 - Recommendations: Prioritised findings, risk-based recommendations, and roadmap development

At engagement completion, your organisation receives:

• Cloud Strategy Document aligned to business objectives
• Cloud Readiness Assessment Report with maturity scoring
• TCO Analysis and Business Case Report
• Prioritised Migration Roadmap with workload categorisation
• Governance and Compliance Gap Analysis
• Executive Summary Presentation for leadership stakeholders

In Scope:

• AWS cloud environments and planned AWS adoption
• Assessment of governance, security, cost, and operational readiness
• Review of compliance posture against relevant frameworks

Prerequisites (Buyer Responsibilities):

• Executive sponsor and key stakeholder availability for interviews
• Access to existing architecture documentation and infrastructure inventories
• Participation from IT leadership, infrastructure leads, and finance teams

Out of Scope:

• Migration execution or implementation services
• Multi-cloud strategy (Azure, GCP) - this engagement focuses on AWS
• Hands-on remediation or configuration changes
• Ongoing managed services post-engagement

An enterprise organisation with a significant on-premises footprint seeking to build a compliant migration business case for AWS. The assessment evaluates current workloads, identifies cost optimisation opportunities through TCO analysis, and delivers a prioritised roadmap that enables informed investment decisions and executive alignment.

• A tailored cloud strategy aligned with business objectives
• Improved governance and compliance posture with gap identification
• Scalable operational readiness with maturity scoring
• Cost optimisation through actionable, data-driven business cases

Spark EPC brings deep expertise in enterprise cloud consulting across the New Zealand and APAC market. Our engagement model is modular - organisations can engage across all three focus areas or select specific modules based on their stage of cloud adoption.