You may have decided that your future lies in the cloud. But the path there is complex. How do you manage the risks of security and data loss? How can you automate very manually intensive processes? Where do you source the necessary skills? CirrusHQ's AWS-certified solutions architects and engineers apply their unique combination of insight and experience to assure you of a smooth journey to the cloud.

Architect - Scalable, fault tolerant solutions with bespoke back-up and security

Our solution architects can design the optimum scaling configuration to maximise scalability and minimise costs. Solutions can be designed to accommodate regular traffic patterns allowing you to pay only for the resources you need, as well as coping with unexpected demand. By spreading IT solutions across multiple data centres and building-in redundancy to remove any single points of failure, we can maximise fault tolerance for your application without sacrificing flexibility. Self-healing architecture automatically replaces failed components to minimise potential downtime.

We design infrastructure based on your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO). Running applications across multiple data centres resolves many disaster recovery issues: however, we can also failover to an alternative AWS region, allowing mission-critical systems to be rapidly restored, even in the event of a total outage of multiple data centres. AWS is certified for standards including ISO 9001, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and we configure this security at multiple levels, including data encryption, firewalls, user access controls, audit logging and private network access.

Migrate - Managing the complexity of cloud migration

With proven expertise in migrating applications, large and small, across a wide range of technologies, CirrusHQ can assist with the migration of your IT infrastructure from existing physical, virtual or cloud-based locations. Our engineers work with your developers and operations personnel to migrate your applications and data over to your new AWS infrastructure and ensure that everything is working as expected. Once cloud migration has been achieved, our skilled team of engineers can, if required, provide ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure.

Migration engagement

Migration is AWS is tailored to your business needs, and the method and process will change according to a multitude of different business factors, from workloads, time, costs, licensing, quick wins, and skillsets (to name a few).

We build our migration paths based on the AWS 6 strategies for migration:

1. Rehosting - also known as lift and shift
2. Replatforming - sometimes known as lift-tinker-and-shift
3. Repurchasing - move to a different product
4. Refactoring / Rearchitecting - Re-imagining how the application is architected and developed, typically using cloud-native features
5. Retire - get rid of
6. Retain - do nothing for now

CirrusHQ will work with you during your migration project or programme, to indentify what method suits each workload, we'll then agree all deliverables and timelines before delivering the migration.

There are multiple tools and services used for migration, either from AWS or from 3rd parties, CirrusHQ can help in choosing the right tooling and technique for the migration and those critical cut-over periods.

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