Is this lift-and-shift?
No. Cloud migration here is a strangler of one painful workload. Lift-and-shift is how you keep the same outage in a more expensive rack.
Cloud migration
Cloud migration for UK and US mid-market estates.
Inventory, strangler, hypercare. Move the loop that hurts. Leave the rest until a later, boring decision.
In short
Cloud migration at Velosius is incremental modernisation in your AWS, Azure, or GCP account. We replatform the painful workload first, with monitoring and rollback. We do not sell a heroic weekend cutover.
Who this is for
UK and US mid-market IT and operations leads paying for iron they no longer want, or running a monolith that cannot deploy without a change window.
We will not lift every server into EC2 to prove a diagram, and we will not run identical apps on three clouds because a strategy slide said multi-cloud.
Right cloud for the workload, not every logo
UK mid-market estates often already sit on Azure for identity and Microsoft 365, with new product work landing on AWS. That is a practical split, not a religion. Cloud migration here names a primary platform for new builds and a secondary for the workloads that already live there.
Data gravity decides more than preference. Personal data, batch jobs, and the database the month-end close trusts stay where they are until the first pathway is live and boring.
Strangler, not lift-and-shift theatre
Lift-and-shift saves datacentre rent and keeps the operational pain. We inventory, classify, and move one slice behind an API or a managed database. The line, the warehouse, or the claims queue keeps running. Cutover is hypercare with authority to roll back without a committee.
Niran Fernando leads cloud architecture. Ishara Bandara watches cost so a second cloud does not become a second surprise bill. A plant overnight batch is a manufacturing programme first — that work lives on the cloud manufacturing ERP page.
What the first 90 days leave running
Connectivity, identity, and one workload in your account, with infrastructure as code and a runbook. Stateless services move first. Data gravity waits until validation queries exist. The next tranche is a decision, not a retainer that assumes we stay forever.
What the first 90 days leave you
- Inventory and a four-path classification: retire, retain, replatform, refactor
- One workload in your cloud account, with monitoring and rollback
- FinOps tagging so a second cloud does not hide a bill
- Handover your operators can extend — not a permanent migration bench
Longer field note: Legacy to cloud-native: a practical migration playbook for US enterprises.
FAQ
Before you brief us
Do you put us on every hyperscaler?
No. A primary platform for new builds, a secondary where the workload already lives. Multi-cloud without a reason is two bills.
Who leads cloud programmes?
Niran Fernando. Cost and tagging: Ishara Bandara. Send the workload that still needs a change window.
Next step
Fifteen minutes is enough.
Send the workflow, the systems it must touch, and the constraint you cannot break. We will say build, buy, or stop.