Website / Application Migration to AWS
Moved onto AWS with the cutover rehearsed, the DNS planned, and the old host still standing.
From $459 2–5 days
AWS Migration Readiness Assessment
What should move, what it will cost to run, and in what order — before anybody commits.
Price and scope
From $399
Typically $399–$899, fixed in writing before anything starts.
What moves it up
- An application nobody documented, where discovery is most of the work
- A hard downtime limit, which changes the strategy rather than only the schedule
- Licensing that follows the workload — databases and operating systems both bite here
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What actually goes wrong
Migrations are quoted from what the application looks like and go wrong because of what it depends on. The dependency nobody mapped is the one that fails at cutover: a shared file mount two services both use, a scheduled job on a machine nobody counted as part of the system, an integration that only accepts traffic from one fixed IP address. And the running cost gets estimated from instance sizes, which is the smallest part of the bill — data transfer, storage IOPS and inter-zone traffic are what make the first invoice a surprise.
How I find it
An inventory taken from the running systems rather than from the documentationnetstat or ss on every host, to find the connections nobody drew on the diagramA twelve-month cost model including transfer, IOPS and cross-zone traffic, not just computeLicence terms checked for anything that changes price or validity when it moves to a cloud
What you get
- A dependency map built from what is running, including the things not in the diagram
- A per-workload recommendation — move as is, change it first, or leave it where it is
- A twelve-month AWS cost estimate with the assumptions written down and challengeable
- A sequenced plan with the risky steps identified and a rollback for each
- An honest statement of what should NOT move, which most assessments do not include
Questions
What if the assessment says we should not migrate?
Then it says that, and it is the most valuable outcome this can produce. Some workloads are cheaper and more reliable where they are, and finding that out for a few hundred dollars beats finding it out halfway through a migration.
Do I have to use you for the migration afterwards?
No. The plan is written to be handed to anyone, including your own team or another contractor, and it does not depend on me to execute. If you do use me, the assessment fee comes off the migration.
How accurate is the cost estimate?
Close on compute and storage, less certain on data transfer, which depends on traffic patterns nobody can fully predict in advance. Every assumption is written down so you can argue with the ones that look wrong rather than trusting a single number.
Can you assess something that is not on AWS yet at all?
That is the usual case — on-premises servers, a colocation rack, another cloud, or a mix. The discovery work is the same: find what is actually running and what it talks to, which is rarely what the documentation says.
If this is not quite it
AWS Cost Optimization Audit
Where the money is going, what can be cut without touching reliability, and what it is worth.
From $249 2–3 days
Want this done?
Tell me what you are running and I will come back with a fixed price and a date. If it turns out you do not need this, I will say that instead.
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Before you enquire
When I answer
Sunday to Thursday, 09:00–18:00 EET. Outside that I will still look, but I will not promise a time.
No 24/7 desk, and I will not pretend otherwise
One person, one time zone. If round-the-clock cover is what you need, you need a team, and I will say so rather than sell you a plan that cannot deliver it.
Your AWS bill stays yours
You pay Amazon directly and you keep control of the account. Nothing here resells your infrastructure or sits between you and your own billing.
A price that starts with "from" is a starting price
Every service page lists exactly what pushes a quote above it, before you ask. You get a fixed number in writing before any work begins.