What we do, starting with security

Common problems we hear

• No independent assessment of the AWS environment in the last twelve months
• Automated tooling reports hundreds of findings with no sense of which matter
• An enterprise customer or auditor has asked for evidence the team cannot produce
• Cost, security and reliability are each owned by different people, and nobody holds the whole picture

Common problems we hear

• A cloud mandate exists but the business case has not been established
• Nobody has a current, agreed inventory of the application estate
• Previous migration estimates have proven unreliable
• The board is asking for a return figure the technology team cannot yet evidence

Common problems we hear

• A migration date is set but rollback has never been tested
• Legacy infrastructure is approaching end of support or a lease expiry
• Dependencies between applications are poorly understood
• Previous cutovers caused customer-facing outages

Common problems we hear

• Each team provisions differently, so nothing is consistent across accounts
• Cost allocation and tagging break down across the estate
• Monitoring exists per account, with no consolidated view
• Operational load grows in step with usage, and headcount does not

Common problems we hear

• Cloud is being run like a data centre, with the costs of both models
• Consultants leave and the capability leaves with them
• No agreed internal standard, so every team solves the same problem differently
• Deployment remains slow despite having moved to the cloud

Common problems we hear

• No clear view of security posture across multiple AWS accounts
• Findings arrive as noise—hundreds of items with no priority
• Enterprise prospects blocked behind a security questionnaire
• IAM has grown organically and nobody is confident what it grants

Common problems we hear

• Operational load growing faster than the team can hire
• Incident reviews take days because nobody can reconstruct the timeline
• Infrastructure changes are slow and reviews are a bottleneck
• Documentation and runbooks are always one incident out of date

Common problems we hear

• Security attention has gone to AWS while GCP or Azure drifted
• Identity and access grew organically across two or three clouds
• No consistent way to compare posture between platforms
• Auditors asking about the whole estate, not just the main cloud

Common problems we hear

• Cloud spend grew faster than revenue
• Enterprise prospects blocked by security questionnaire
• Migration date set but no rollback plan
• Architecture can’t handle the next growth spike

Common problems we hear

• Data and analytics workloads driving unpredictable GCP spend
• Security and governance gaps blocking enterprise deals
• Migration timelines slipping with no clear milestones
• Engineering team stretched across platform and product work

Common problems we hear

• Hybrid identity and legacy Windows estates complicating cloud move
• Licensing and reserved instance spend poorly aligned to usage
• Compliance requirements (HIPAA, GDPR) slowing Azure adoption
• Defender and security tooling not integrated into daily operations

Common problems we hear

• Core differentiation trapped in spreadsheets or manual workflows
• Integrations between billing, CRM, and product breaking under load
• Technical debt slowing every new feature
• Build vs buy decisions deferred because no one owns the trade-off

Common problems we hear

• Marketing site or portal performance hurting conversion and SEO
• Customer-facing tools that don’t integrate with back-office systems
• Content updates requiring developers for every small change
• Security patches and uptime treated as afterthoughts