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Cloud Adoption.

A migrated, optimized cloud estate with documented landing zones, governance and FinOps practices — TCO measured, reported and managed.

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Common failure patterns

These are the patterns Aurora’s engagement model is designed to prevent.

F 01

Lift-and-shift without landing zone.

Accounts multiply ungoverned. Security posture fragments across teams.

F 02

FinOps deferred until post-migration.

Cloud bill grows 3x before anyone establishes a measurement baseline.

F 03

Security configured per-account.

No organization-wide policy. Compliance audit reveals gaps months later.

Aurora’s operating approach

Our cloud architects own the target-state architecture, the landing zone design and the FinOps practice. Our migration engineers run the workload moves. Our security engineers configure the posture framework. Partner extensions: hyperscaler-certified delivery teams for surge capacity on large migration waves, FinOps and security posture tooling where the engagement requires licensed platforms.

Operational outcome

A migrated, optimized cloud estate with documented landing zones, governance and FinOps practices — TCO measured, reported and managed. Migration is the start of the engagement, not the end.

Service shape

Who it is for

Industry-agnostic · Mission-critical workloads

How this combines

Discovery (Cloud Readiness Assessment) is the entry point. Migration and optimization often run alongside Managed Infrastructure for post-migration steady-state coverage.

Pricing posture

Diagnostic engagements are flat-fee. Full engagements are scoped after the diagnostic against a defensible range; we share the range in writing before the engagement contracts.

Engagement tiers

Discovery

Cloud Readiness Assessment — landing zone target, migration sequencing, FinOps baseline. 1–2 weeks.

Flat-fee diagnostic

Migration

Landing zone build and workload migration in waves under documented runbooks. 3–9 months.

Engagement-scoped after discovery

Full Adoption Program

Multi-year program — migrate, modernize, embed FinOps and security. Named partner engineers under Aurora program management.

Engagement-scoped

Partner extensions

Collaboration model

Aurora leads discovery, architecture and ongoing optimization. Hyperscaler-certified delivery partners contribute platform-certified migration engineers and FinOps tooling under Aurora's program management.

HYPER
SCALER

AWS / Azure / GCP Delivery Partner

Hyperscaler-certified delivery capacity across all three major clouds.

FIN
OPS

FinOps Tooling Partner

Cloud cost observability and optimization tooling.

SEC

Security Posture Partner

CSPM and security baseline tooling for regulated cloud.

Typical engagement lifecycle

Phase 01

Framework

Cloud Adoption Framework workshop. Target state and guardrails defined.

Phase 02

Build

Landing zone build — network, identity, secrets, observability.

Phase 03

Migrate

Workload migration in waves under documented runbooks.

Phase 04

Optimize

FinOps and security embed for post-migration optimization.

Operational deliverables

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A documented landing zone you could brief a new engineer on in an hour.

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TCO measured against pre-migration baseline, reported monthly.

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Security posture defensible to an external audit, not just to internal review.

Frequently asked questions

Which cloud do you recommend?+

Cloud selection is engagement-specific. We work across AWS, Azure and GCP and recommend based on workload fit, regulatory constraint and existing investment.

Do you do lift-and-shift or modernization?+

Both. Most engagements blend the two; the Readiness Assessment sequences which workloads move which way.

What does FinOps look like in practice?+

Tagged cost allocation, monthly review with engineering leads, and target-rate optimization on the highest-cost services.