--- title: Cloud Consulting & Migration India | AWS, Azure description: AWS and Azure architecture, migration with no data loss, verified backups and cost optimisation. Most cloud estates carry 20–40% waste. Free assessment. source: https://samuelmarndi.com/services/cloud-consulting/ site: https://samuelmarndi.com author: Samuel Marndi contact: +91 82803 20550 · samuelmarandi6@gmail.com updated: 2026-08-22 --- # Cloud consulting and migration — infrastructure that stays up and stops overcharging you Move off fragile shared hosting or an ageing server room: AWS and Azure architecture, migration with no data loss, tested backups, disaster recovery and a monthly bill that gets smaller. ## Short answer **Cloud migration in India ranges from about ₹2,00,000 for a small business estate to ₹80,00,000+ for a large enterprise one**, and most existing cloud environments carry 20–40% waste in over-provisioned or forgotten resources. A cost audit alone often pays for the whole engagement. The work covers four things: an audit of what you run and what it costs, a target architecture with sizing and security, a migration plan with a rollback and an off-hours cutover, and backups you have personally watched restore. Runbook documentation is a deliverable, so you are never dependent on one person's memory. ## Key facts | Item | Detail | | --- | --- | | Typical migration cost | ₹2,00,000 – ₹80,00,000 depending on estate size | | Cost-audit finding | 20–40% waste is typical in unmanaged cloud environments | | Platforms | AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Cloudflare | | Downtime | Most migrations complete inside a planned off-hours window with DNS-level rollback | | Backups | 3-2-1 design with a documented restore test you watch | | Delivered | Remotely, worldwide | ## What is delivered - Audit of current hosting, servers, costs and single points of failure - Target architecture with sizing, security groups and cost estimate - Migration plan with rollback and a low-traffic cutover window - Automated, verified backups with a documented restore test - Monitoring and alerts routed to the right person - Cost optimisation: right-sizing, reserved capacity, waste removal - Runbook documentation so you are not dependent on one head ## AWS, Azure or Google Cloud — how the choice is actually made The platforms are more alike than their sales teams suggest. What decides it is your existing licences, your team's skills and the specific services you need. | Choose | When | | --- | --- | | AWS | You want the widest service catalogue and the deepest hiring pool; most third-party tooling assumes it | | Microsoft Azure | You already pay for Microsoft 365 or Windows Server — licence benefits often make it cheaper overall | | Google Cloud | Data and analytics workloads, BigQuery, or you are already deep in Google Workspace | | DigitalOcean / Hetzner | Small predictable workloads where the hyperscaler pricing model adds cost without adding value | | Stay on-premises (hybrid) | Large data volumes with expensive bandwidth, or compliance that requires local residency | ## Where cloud bills leak money A cost audit is a standalone engagement and usually the first thing worth doing. The waste is rarely exotic — it is the same handful of causes in almost every environment. - Instances sized for a launch-day guess that nobody has revisited since - Development and staging environments running 24×7 for a team that works 40 hours a week - Orphaned disks, snapshots and load balancers from deleted projects, still billing - On-demand pricing where reserved or savings-plan capacity would cut 30–50% - Data transfer charges from an architecture that crosses regions unnecessarily - Backup retention policies nobody set, keeping every snapshot forever - Managed services bought for convenience where the cheaper tier does the same job ## Backups: the only test that matters is a restore Almost every business I audit has backups running. A much smaller number have ever restored one. Until you have watched your data come back, you have a scheduled task, not a backup. Every engagement includes a 3-2-1 design — three copies, two media, one offsite — and a restore test you attend. You see the data return, and the runbook records exactly how it was done so someone else can repeat it under pressure. ## Pricing Indicative Indian market ranges for 2026. Cloud work is quoted per engagement because estates differ enormously; the cost audit is the cheapest way to find out where you sit. | Engagement | Indicative range | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Cloud cost audit | ₹25,000 – ₹75,000 | Written report of waste, right-sizing plan and a projected monthly saving | | Architecture & migration plan | ₹50,000 – ₹2,00,000 | Target design, sizing, security model, migration runbook and rollback plan | | Small business migration | ₹2,00,000 – ₹8,00,000 | Shared hosting or a single server moved to a properly designed cloud estate | | Mid-size estate migration | ₹8,00,000 – ₹25,00,000 | Multiple workloads in waves, with re-architecting where it pays | | Backup & disaster recovery setup | ₹40,000 – ₹1,50,000 | 3-2-1 backup design, automation, monitoring and a witnessed restore test | | Ongoing cloud management | Monthly retainer | Monitoring, patching, cost review and a quarterly architecture check | *Cloud provider charges are billed by AWS, Azure or Google directly to your own account — I never resell capacity, because a consultant who profits from your bill has no reason to shrink it.* ## How the work runs 1. **Audit what you run today** — Inventory of servers, services, costs, dependencies and single points of failure. 2. **Target architecture & quote** — A design with sizing, security groups, projected monthly cost and a migration runbook. 3. **Migrate in waves with rollback** — Low-traffic cutover windows, DNS-level rollback, and verification after every wave. 4. **Verify, document, hand over** — Witnessed restore test, monitoring routed to the right person, runbooks written for your team. ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does cloud migration cost in India? Between ₹2,00,000 and ₹80,00,000+ depending on the size of the estate. A small business moving off shared hosting or a single server usually sits at the bottom of that band. A cost audit at ₹25,000–₹75,000 is the cheapest way to find your real number before committing. ### AWS or Azure — which is better for my business? Whichever fits your existing stack, licences and team. If you already pay for Microsoft 365 or Windows Server, Azure's licence benefits often make it cheaper overall. If you want the widest service catalogue and the deepest hiring pool, AWS. The technical difference matters far less than these two factors. ### How much downtime will migration cause? Most migrations complete inside a planned off-hours window, with DNS-level rollback available if anything looks wrong. Larger estates move in waves so no single cutover carries the whole business. Zero-downtime is achievable for some workloads and is priced accordingly. ### Can you just reduce our cloud bill without migrating? Yes — a cost audit is a standalone engagement. Most environments carry 20–40% waste in over-provisioned instances, forgotten dev environments, orphaned storage and on-demand pricing where reserved capacity would be cheaper. The saving usually covers the audit several times over. ### Do you resell AWS or Azure capacity? No. Cloud charges go directly from the provider to your own account, in your name. A consultant who takes a margin on your consumption has a financial reason not to shrink it. ### What is a 3-2-1 backup, and why does it matter? Three copies of the data, on two different media, with one offsite. It matters because the common failure modes — ransomware, accidental deletion, hardware failure, a bad sync — each defeat a single-copy strategy. And every design includes a restore test you personally watch. ### Should we move to the cloud at all? Not always. Large data volumes with expensive bandwidth, or compliance requiring local residency, can make hybrid or on-premises the better answer. I have recommended staying put more than once, and the audit will say so plainly if that is your situation. ### Who manages it after migration? Your team, with runbooks — or me, under a monthly retainer. Either way the documentation exists so the answer can change without a rebuild. ## Related services - [Servers & storage](https://samuelmarndi.com/services/servers-storage/) — Server specs, NAS, RAID, virtualisation, backups - [Networking & cabling](https://samuelmarndi.com/services/networking/) — Cat6/fibre, switches, VLANs, Wi-Fi, firewalls - [IT consulting & support](https://samuelmarndi.com/services/it-consulting/) — Retainer support, procurement, IT roadmap - [Custom software](https://samuelmarndi.com/services/custom-software/) — Internal tools, billing, inventory, dashboards --- *Published by [Samuel Marndi](https://samuelmarndi.com), independent IT consultant, Bengaluru, India. Source page: https://samuelmarndi.com/services/cloud-consulting/ Enquiries: +91 82803 20550 (phone and WhatsApp) · samuelmarandi6@gmail.com · Mon–Sat, 9am–7pm IST Quotes are written and itemised, issued within 24 hours.*