Lift-and-shift without landing zone.
Accounts multiply ungoverned. Security posture fragments across teams.
Aurora Ascend
Cloud Adoption
Cloud Adoption
A migrated, optimized cloud estate with documented landing zones, governance and FinOps practices — TCO measured, reported and managed.
Common failure patterns
FinOps deferred until post-migration.
Cloud bill grows 3x before anyone establishes a measurement baseline.
Security configured per-account.
No organization-wide policy. Compliance audit reveals gaps months later.
Business problem
Migrating production workloads to cloud without disciplined architecture creates runaway cost, fragmented security posture and brittle systems.
The cloud bill becomes the new server room — only harder to forecast.
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-accredited delivery teams for large migration waves, FinOps and security posture tooling where the engagement requires licensed platforms.
Expected outcomes
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.
Operational deliverables
- A documented landing zone you could brief a new engineer on in an hour.
- TCO measured against pre-migration baseline, reported monthly.
- Security posture defensible to an external audit, not just to internal review.
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
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.
Delivery partners
Aurora leads discovery, architecture and ongoing optimization. Hyperscaler delivery partners, named per engagement, contribute specialist migration engineers and FinOps tooling under Aurora's program management.
HYPER
SCALER
SCALER
AWS / Azure / GCP Delivery Partner
Specialist delivery teams across AWS, Azure and GCP, named per engagement.
Named per engagement
FIN
OPS
OPS
FinOps Tooling Partner
Cloud cost observability and optimization tooling.
Contracted per engagement
SEC
Security Posture Partner
CSPM and security baseline tooling for regulated cloud.
Contracted per engagement
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.
Next step
Cloud Readiness Assessment
One- to two-week structured assessment. Output: a written report covering target landing zone, migration sequencing, security posture and FinOps baseline.