Infrastructure · India & worldwide
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.
In short
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.
Cloud consulting at a glance
- 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
Sound familiar?
What you get
- 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.
Indicative pricing
What cloud consulting costs
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.
Tech stack
The exact platforms I build cloud consulting on.
Mainstream, well-supported products with real warranties and real communities — so your system stays maintainable long after the invoice is settled.
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Docker
Kubernetes
Terraform
Linux
NGINX
Cloudflare
Grafana
Prometheus
Ubuntu
Why clients pick me for this
Four promises, written into every cloud consulting contract.
Fixed price, no scope-creep billing
The quote you approve is the amount you pay. Anything extra is quoted and approved by you before a rupee is spent.
Milestone payments, not upfront risk
You pay against delivered stages. If a milestone is not signed off, the next one does not start.
Satisfaction sign-off before handover
Delivery closes only when you have tested it and confirmed it does what the scope said. Fixes inside that scope are free.
Support after the invoice is paid
A defined warranty period, then optional AMC. You call the person who built it — never a ticket queue.
How it runs
From your first message to signed-off delivery.
STEP 01
Audit what you run today
Inventory of servers, services, costs, dependencies and single points of failure.
STEP 02
Target architecture & quote
A design with sizing, security groups, projected monthly cost and a migration runbook.
STEP 03
Migrate in waves with rollback
Low-traffic cutover windows, DNS-level rollback, and verification after every wave.
STEP 04
Verify, document, hand over
Witnessed restore test, monitoring routed to the right person, runbooks written for your team.
FAQ
Cloud consulting — questions clients ask
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.
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