Moving to the cloud should reduce complexity and cost – not just move the same mess to a new location. We design environments that match your workload, your budget, and your team's ability to run them.
Cloud migrations that aren't properly designed tend to produce the same result: higher costs, the same reliability problems as on-premise, and a team that doesn't understand what they're running. A lift-and-shift is not a cloud strategy.
In M&E and VFX, cloud infrastructure requirements are demanding and variable – burst render capacity, large-scale media storage, high-throughput transcoding, global content delivery. Getting the architecture wrong costs real money. Getting it right unlocks workflows that weren't possible on-premise.
The goal is a cloud environment that's right-sized, secure, observable, and that your team can actually manage day-to-day.
Over-provisioned instances, forgotten resources, and no tagging strategy – cloud spend grows without clear visibility into where it's going.
Systems moved without re-architecture – the same single points of failure, the same backup gaps, just hosted somewhere else.
Permissions too broad, public S3 buckets, no network segmentation. Security misconfiguration is the leading cause of cloud breaches.
We design and review cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. The starting point is always your workload and your team – not a vendor framework or a reference architecture that doesn't fit your situation.
What moves first, what gets re-architected, what stays on-premise. A migration plan with realistic sequencing, risk assessment, and cutover strategy.
Well-architected cloud environments – multi-region resilience, network design, identity, secrets management, and observability baked in from the start.
Burst render capacity design for VFX and post-production – spot instances, autoscaling, deadline integration, and cost controls that prevent bill shock.
Right-sizing, reserved instance planning, spot strategy, and tagging governance. Getting cloud spend to a level that makes sense for the business value delivered.
Least-privilege IAM, network segmentation, encryption in transit and at rest, audit logging, and CSPM tooling to catch drift before it becomes a breach.
Terraform or CDK-based infrastructure – so environments are repeatable, version-controlled, and not dependent on one person's institutional knowledge.
We map what you're running – on-premise, existing cloud, or both – with a focus on dependencies, performance requirements, storage patterns, and cost. In M&E contexts, this includes pipeline tools, render software, and asset management systems.
We produce a target architecture with networking, compute, storage, identity, and security components designed together. We review against the AWS/Azure/GCP Well-Architected Frameworks and adapt where they don't fit your situation.
A phased migration plan – what moves in which order, how you handle cutover, how you test, and how you roll back if something goes wrong. No big-bang migrations.
We can build the environment directly or work alongside your team. Automated testing of infrastructure, security controls, and performance baselines before anything production-critical moves.
Your team needs to run this. We document everything – architecture decisions, runbooks, cost governance, and incident response. And we make sure the people running it understand what they've got.
Tell us what you're running and what's not working. We'll be straight about what needs to change and what it'll take.