Capability 04

Cloud Architecture & Modernisation

Translate business and technical requirements into secure, maintainable architectures — and a practical, incremental path from where you are to where you need to be.

The challenge

The destination is unclear, or the route feels too risky.

  • Architecture decisions made project by project, with no shared target state.
  • Legacy workloads that are costly to run and difficult to change.
  • Security requirements that arrive late and force rework.
  • Modernisation plans that assume one large, high-risk cutover.
Our approach

Understand the current state, design the target, move in steps.

  1. 01

    Assess

    Review current architecture, constraints and risks with the people who build and run it.

  2. 02

    Define the target

    Design a secure, resilient target state and the operating model that supports it.

  3. 03

    Plan the path

    Sequence modernisation into increments that each deliver value and reduce risk.

  4. 04

    Guide delivery

    Review designs and implementation as work proceeds, so the architecture holds up in practice.

Representative activities

  • Architecture assessment
  • Target-state design
  • Landing zones
  • Workload modernisation
  • Security patterns and guardrails
  • Resilience design
  • Cloud operating models
  • Migration and decomposition strategy
  • Architecture reviews

Technology

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Terraform

Expected outcomes

  • A clear target state

    An agreed architecture that teams and stakeholders can plan against.

  • Lower-risk change

    Modernisation sequenced into steps that can each be verified.

  • Security designed in

    Identity, encryption and detection patterns built into the design.

  • Decisions on record

    Architecture decisions documented with their trade-offs.

Planning a modernisation?

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