Cloud migration without losing a working day.

Email, file storage and core applications moved off ageing hardware to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud — scheduled around your hours, not ours.

The risk is the cutover, not the cloud

Cloud platforms are reliable. Migrations go wrong in the transition — mail that stops flowing mid-morning, permissions that don't carry across, a shared drive nobody realised was load-bearing until it disappeared.

Which is why the audit comes before anything moves. We document what you have, what depends on what, and who uses which system, then plan the cutover around when your business can actually absorb it. Usually that means a weekend.

What moves

  • Email, including full mailbox history, calendars, shared mailboxes and distribution lists.
  • File storage with permissions preserved, not flattened — the most common failure in a cheap migration.
  • Core line-of-business applications, up to three on the standard engagement and up to five with hardening.
  • User accounts and access, configured with multi-factor authentication from day one rather than as a later project.

Hardening while you are already in there

A migration is the cheapest moment to fix access control, because everything is being touched anyway. The combined engagement adds post-migration hardening: least-privilege access, MFA enforcement, an access audit showing exactly who can reach what, and remediation of anything that audit surfaces.

Doing it as a separate project later costs more and disrupts twice.

Post-migration support is included

One week on the standard engagement, two weeks on the hardened one. This matters more than it sounds — the problems a migration causes rarely appear on day one. They appear when someone returns from leave, or hits a monthly process, or needs a file from four years ago.

Pricing

What it costs.

Ranges reflect scope. Discovery converts the range into one fixed number, in writing, before anything starts.

Cloud Migration — Small Business

$1,500 – $2,800
  • Email and file storage migration
  • Up to 3 core applications
  • User access setup and data transfer
  • 1 week post-migration support
Effort
25–40 hours
Timeline
2–3 weeks

Cloud Migration + Hardening

$2,500 – $3,000
  • Full migration: email, storage, up to 5 apps
  • Post-migration security hardening
  • Access controls and access audit
  • 2 weeks post-migration support
Effort
40–55 hours
Timeline
3–4 weeks
Questions

Cloud Migration — common questions.

How much does cloud migration cost for a small business?

Our standard migration runs $1,500 to $2,800 covering email, file storage and up to three applications. The combined migration and security hardening engagement runs $2,500 to $3,000 and covers up to five applications. Both are fixed fees.

Will we lose access to email during the migration?

No. Mail flow is maintained throughout, with the cutover scheduled outside working hours. In a well-planned migration your staff notice a password prompt on Monday morning and nothing else.

AWS, Azure or Google Cloud — which should we use?

Usually whichever your existing software already integrates with best. If you run Microsoft 365 the answer is generally Azure; if your team lives in Google Workspace it is generally Google Cloud. We make the recommendation during discovery based on what you actually run, not on which vendor we prefer.

What happens to our old server?

We tell you when it can be decommissioned and when it genuinely needs keeping — some line-of-business software still has no viable cloud equivalent. We will not push a migration that leaves you worse off to make the invoice tidier.

Let's scope it.

A discovery call costs nothing and ends with a written fixed-fee proposal. No payment until you approve it.

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