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Cloud Migration Services

Workloads moved one at a time, with a rollback at every stage and a bill you agreed before the first server started. Hygge's cloud migration services begin with a dependency map, because the thing that breaks a migration is the connection nobody documented.

What Goes Into a Cloud Migration

The layers that separate a migration from an outage with a press release. Hygge scopes which of them your estate needs after the discovery pass, then prices the cloud migration services around that finding.

Discovery and Dependency Mapping

Every workload, every integration, and every scheduled job written down, including the ones running on a machine under someone's desk. A migration fails on the connection nobody knew about.

Target Architecture

Which workloads move as they are, which get re-platformed, and which get rebuilt. Cloud migration consulting puts a cost against each option before the decision gets made.

Data Migration

Bulk transfer, then continuous replication, then a cutover measured in minutes, with reconciliation reports proving both sides agree before anything gets switched off.

Networking and Identity

Connectivity between what has moved and what has not, plus your identity provider handling access on both sides during the months the estate is split.

Cost Model and Guardrails

Sizing based on measured usage, autoscaling with a ceiling, budget alerts, and tagging so every line on the invoice has an owner. Cost control belongs in the design, before the bill arrives.

Cutover and Rollback

A rehearsed switch for each workload, with the path back defined and tested. Nothing moves until going back costs one decision.

What a Migration Assessment Settles First

Hygge opens with an assessment of your estate. A cloud migration company that quotes from a server list is quoting on the half of the picture you can see.

The assessment produces each of these:

  • An inventory of workloads with their dependencies, owners, and the traffic each one carries.
  • A move decision per workload: as is, re-platformed, rebuilt, or retired.
  • A monthly run cost at your measured usage, with the licensing implications named and the cloud infrastructure services sized against real load.
  • A sequence, so the workloads that unblock others move first.
  • Fixed scope and price for phase one, agreed before anything moves.
What a Migration Assessment Settles First

What Forces a Move to the Cloud

The situations behind most enquiries Hygge scopes.

A hardware refresh is due, capacity blocks the roadmap, and nobody is sure what runs where. Cloud migration moves it in stages with both environments live until the numbers match. The audit inventories what you run before a date is set.

The Hardware Refresh Is Due

A data centre contract or a server refresh is coming, and the capital request is large enough that someone asks whether the machines should exist at all.

The First Migration Doubled the Bill

Workloads were lifted across as they were, sized the way they ran on owned hardware. The invoice arrived, and now the project has to justify itself twice.

Capacity Blocks the Roadmap

New environments take weeks to provision, so testing gets skipped and releases queue behind infrastructure requests nobody can speed up.

Compliance Moved the Goalposts

A customer contract or a regulator now requires controls, residency, or evidence the current setup was never built to produce.

Nobody Knows What Runs Where

The estate grew over a decade through acquisitions and departures. Any plan starts with an inventory nobody has, and that is the work everyone underestimates.

How We Move an Estate

From a dependency map to the last workload switched over, one at a time, with a tested way back at each step. This is how cloud migration services run at Hygge.

  1. Assessment

    Three to four weeks discovering the estate, mapping dependencies, and measuring real usage, ending in a sequence, a cost model, and an exact price.

  2. Landing Zone

    Accounts, networking, identity, logging, and cost guardrails built as code before the first workload arrives, so every aws migration services wave lands on a defined foundation.

  3. Pilot Workload

    One meaningful, low-risk service moved end to end, including cutover and rollback, which turns the plan into evidence.

  4. Wave Migration

    Workloads move in waves grouped by dependency, each with a rehearsed cutover, a reconciliation check, and the old environment left running until the new one has proven itself.

  5. Optimise and Hand Over

    Right-sizing against measured usage, reserved capacity where the pattern is stable, runbooks, and sessions with your team, so the estate is yours to operate.

What Changes Once the Estate Has Moved

The move happens with customers working through it, because nothing is switched off until the figures agree. Capacity stops being a purchase decision, and what runs where is written down for whoever comes next. Cloud migration consulting starts with what the move is meant to achieve, because a lift and shift that changes nothing about how the system runs mostly moves the bill. Azure migration services follow the same path Hygge uses everywhere: a proven copy running beside production before anything is switched over.

What Changes Once the Estate Has Moved

The Standards Cloud Migration Services Are Held To

Every number here is agreed with you before work starts, then measured against how things run today.

0 min
Downtime during cutover, rehearsed on a copy before the switch
35 %
Off the monthly bill after right-sizing, against a like-for-like lift and shift
2 weeks
To a migration plan with costs, order of moves and a rollback for each
100 %
Accounts, billing and access in your name from the start

Where Moving Off Old Hardware Pays Back Fastest

Sectors where the server room has become the constraint on what the business can do.

All Hygge Industries
Logistics & Warehouse Automation

Logistics & Warehouse Automation

Warehouse systems moved off site-local servers, so a second facility launches without new hardware.

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Retail & E-Commerce

Retail & E-Commerce

Storefront and order systems moved to capacity that follows the season week by week.

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Healthcare & Staffing

Healthcare & Staffing

Clinical workloads moved with data residency and access rules carried across intact.

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Media & Entertainment

Media & Entertainment

Media processing moved to burst capacity, so a large delivery no longer waits on one encoding box.

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LegalTech

LegalTech

Matter systems migrated with retention and privilege behavior verified after cutover.

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Aviation

Aviation

Operations platforms moved with certification records and regulator reporting preserved.

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Real Estate & PropTech

Real Estate & PropTech

Agency platforms consolidated from per-office servers into one estate with shared data.

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EdTech

EdTech

Learning platforms moved to capacity sized for the enrolment spike, then scaled back down.

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Migrations Completed Under Live Traffic

Migrations Hygge has delivered on estates carrying real users.

All Hygge Case Studies
Country Navigator
EdTech

Country Navigator

A decade-old monolith serving enterprise customers, rebuilt into services and given a production AI assistant, with the user base migrated without downtime.

  • 0Downtime moving a decade-old platform
  • 1 configReplaces the SSO setup only one person knew
  • 10 yearsOf monolith rebuilt into services
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What You Get From the Migration Assessment

A workload inventory with dependencies and owners, a move decision per workload, a monthly run cost at measured usage, a migration sequence, and an exact price for phase one. Cloud migration consulting that ends in a plan your finance team can sign off.

The Stack Behind a Migration

Chosen against your workloads, your compliance requirements, and what your own team will operate afterwards. Every migration project ends with that handover.

The destination, picked on your existing licensing, the skills your team holds, and where the workload runs cheapest at your volume.

AWSAWS
Microsoft AzureMicrosoft Azure
Google CloudGoogle Cloud

Frequently Asked Questions

What technical and finance leads ask before committing.

Question mark iconWhat is cloud migration?
Cloud migration is moving applications, data and the infrastructure around them from on-premise servers or one cloud to another. The move itself is the visible part; the work that decides the outcome is what changes on the way, since lifting a system unchanged usually reproduces its old costs on rented hardware.
Question mark iconHow does cloud migration work?
Inventory first: what runs, what it depends on, and what data it holds. Then a target design and a per-application decision on how it moves. Data goes first or in parallel with a sync, applications follow, and traffic switches gradually with a rollback path at every step. Country Navigator moved a decade-old platform with the user base migrated and zero downtime.
Question mark iconWhat is a cloud migration strategy?
The plan naming, per application, which of the standard paths it takes: rehost, re-platform, refactor, repurchase, retire or retain. Retire and retain carry the most value and get skipped most often, because an inventory usually finds systems nobody needs and systems that should stay where they are. The strategy also fixes the order, since dependencies decide what can move when.
Question mark iconWhat is migration in cloud computing?
It covers three distinct moves: on-premise to cloud, cloud to cloud between providers, and cloud back to on-premise. Each has different constraints. Provider-to-provider migration is dominated by managed service differences, since the compute moves easily and the databases, queues and identity services rarely map one to one.
Question mark iconHow do I migrate my business to the cloud?
Start with one system that matters enough to be worth doing well and small enough to finish. Prove the pattern on it: network, identity, deployment, monitoring, backup and cost tracking. That first migration produces the template every later one reuses. Beginning with the largest system means learning all of those lessons under the most pressure.
Question mark iconHow long does a cloud migration take?
The assessment runs three to four weeks. After that, the timeline follows the workload count and how tangled the dependencies are: a focused estate moves in a few months, a decade-old one takes longer and moves in waves. Cloud migration consulting gives you the sequence and the dates before phase one starts.
Question mark iconCan you migrate without downtime?
For most workloads, yes. Bulk transfer runs first, then continuous replication keeps both sides in step, and the cutover becomes a short switch measured in minutes. Where a workload needs a window, you know the length and the date well in advance.
Question mark iconWhich cloud should we move to?
The assessment answers that against your workloads, your compliance requirements, and what your team already knows. Existing licensing agreements often decide more of it than provider feature lists, and aws migration services are one option priced alongside the others.
Question mark iconWhat happens to our data during the migration?
It gets replicated, verified, and reconciled before anything is switched off. The source stays live and authoritative until the reconciliation report shows both sides agree, and the rollback path is tested before each cutover.
Question mark iconHow much will the cloud bill be afterwards?
The assessment produces a monthly run cost based on measured usage, which is a different number from the size of your current servers. Guardrails, tagging, and budget alerts go into the landing zone, so the figure stays close to the estimate.
Question mark iconCan you cut an existing cloud bill?
Yes, as a standalone project. Cost reviews start with a spend breakdown by service and tag, then work through rightsizing, storage tiers, reserved capacity, and the transfer charges most teams have never measured.
Question mark iconWho runs the estate after the migration?
Your team. Everything lands as code in your repository, the runbooks are written for your engineers, and handover includes working sessions. Hygge stays available for changes where you want that, which is how most cloud migration company relationships here continue after cutover.

From a Server List to a Migration Plan

Tell us what you run today and what is forcing the move. You get a dependency map, a cost model, and a sequence, the way every cloud migration consulting project at Hygge begins.

Tell Us What Is Still Running On-Premise

Tell Us What Is Still Running On-Premise

Share the workloads, the licensing you already pay for, and how much downtime a cutover can take.

Get a First Consultation

Get a First Consultation

We review your workloads, dependencies, and downtime window for anything that would change scope, cost, or timeline.

Receive a Detailed Proposal

Receive a Detailed Proposal

A scoped plan with the approach, timeline, and cost, built around your actual infrastructure.

Scope this service

Tell us what the system has to do. You get the scope and the price before any code is written.