Cloud Services
At CloudITManager, we provide secure, well governed cloud services that support organisations through the full cloud lifecycle, from early discovery to post-migration stabilisation.
We specialise in Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS), focusing on platforms we know deeply and can support confidently in regulated and ISO 27001 aligned environments. Rather than offering every cloud provider, we prioritise quality, clarity, and accountability, ensuring our clients receive consistent, audit-ready outcomes.
Our cloud services follow a structured, risk-led approach, beginning with migration discovery, applying the 5 R’s strategy to guide workload decisions, and supporting controlled cutover and stabilisation. We complement this with clear runbooks and operational documentation, ensuring environments remain secure, supportable, and compliant long after migration.
This approach enables organisations to adopt cloud services with confidence, reducing risk, avoiding unnecessary complexity, and ensuring cloud operations are secure by design and ready for assurance.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
We support organisations using Amazon Web Services to operate securely and compliantly at scale. Our work ensures AWS environments are risk-managed, auditable, and aligned to recognised standards, with clarity around responsibility, controls, and evidence.
Key support includes:
- Security and compliance reviews
- Risk and control alignment
- Shared responsibility clarification
- ISO27001 audit support
Cloud Migration Discovery
Our Cloud Migration Discovery service establishes a clear, risk-aware foundation before any migration activity begins.
We assess your current environment, dependencies, data sensitivity, and compliance requirements to ensure migrations are planned, controlled, and audit-ready.
Outcomes include:
- Asset and dependency understanding
- Risk and compliance considerations
- Migration readiness assessment
- Clear scope and assumptions
Cutover Management
We provide structured cutover planning and assurance to minimise risk during migration go-live events.
Our approach ensures cutovers are controlled, communicated, and reversible, with clear roles, checkpoints, and success criteria.
Focus areas include:
- Cutover planning and sequencing
- Risk and rollback considerations
- Stakeholder coordination
- Change and approval governance
Microsoft Azure
We provide expert governance, security, and compliance support for Microsoft Azure.
Our focus is on ensuring Azure services are securely configured, well-governed, and aligned to ISO 27001, with clear ownership under shared responsibility models. We support organisations across design, migration, and steady-state operations.
Key support includes:
- Secure configuration and governance
- Compliance and risk alignment
- Identity, access, and logging oversight
- Audit readiness and assurance
Stabilisation & Post-Migration Support
Following migration, we support stabilisation and assurance activities to ensure environments are secure, compliant, and performing as expected.
This phase validates that controls are operating effectively and that the organisation is ready for business-as-usual operations.
Support includes:
- Post-migration risk review
- Configuration and control validation
- Documentation and handover
- Audit and assurance readiness
Why Not GCP or Oracle Cloud?
At CloudITManager, we focus on platforms we can support deeply and confidently. Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are valid solutions, our primary expertise lies in Azure and AWS due to their widespread adoption, mature compliance tooling, and alignment with regulated UK environments. This focus allows us to deliver higher-quality, standards-aligned outcomes without spreading capability too thin.
5 R's Migration Strategy
We help organisations apply the 5 R’s migration framework to ensure cloud decisions are intentional, defensible, and cost-effective.
We support classification of workloads as:
- Rehost
- Replatform
- Refactor
- Retire
- Retain
Each decision is aligned to business risk, security requirements, and long-term strategy, not just technical convenience.