They wanted their apps moved to Azure exactly as they ran on-prem. We flagged the cost trap in that plan before it happened - and delivered a migration that was both on time and financially defensible.
THE CHALLENGE
The insurer wanted their existing apps lifted into Azure exactly as they ran today - same servers, same setup, nothing re-architected. Simple ask, tight timeline.
The Real Problem Underneath
Running cloud VMs like on-prem servers wastes the elasticity you're paying for. A pure lift-and-shift, mirrored 1:1, was on track to balloon their monthly bill the moment it went live - always-on, over-provisioned, with no cost governance behind it.
The fix wasn't slowing the migration down. It was being selective about what actually needed to move as-is.
OUR APPROACH
We honored the timeline. We just didn't mirror the cost problem into Azure along with everything else. Step through each phase.
Before migrating anything, we sorted the estate into what genuinely needed a like-for-like lift and what didn't.
Outcomes
Triage completed in 2 weeks, with 60% of the estate confirmed suitable for lift-and-shift and the database tier redirected to PaaS.
THE SOLUTION
Hosted the time-sensitive apps exactly as scoped, on schedule. Not every workload needed to change shape to move - IaaS covered the ones that genuinely didn't.
THE OUTCOME
41%
lower monthly spend vs. an unmanaged lift-and-shift
On time
zero slip against the original migration deadline
100%
of stable databases off self-managed servers
Ongoing visibility
cost dashboards now standard, not a one-time exercise
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