Services · Cloud Modernization
Moving servers to the cloud isn't modernization — it's relocation, and it usually raises the bill. Splendor's cloud modernization services decide the right path for every workload, build the governance and cost visibility in from day one, and leave you with a cloud foundation where spend, security, and speed are all under control.
The Problem
The migration finished a year ago, and the bill has gone up every quarter since.
Nobody can tell the CFO what any business function actually costs to run.
Half the estate is in the cloud, half on-premises, and the two halves barely talk.
The old data center was supposed to close after the migration. It's still running.
Security reviews keep finding resources nobody remembers creating.
Sound familiar?
What We Do
We map workloads to the business capabilities they serve, then choose deliberately for each: rehost, replatform, re-architect, replace, or retire. Underneath them all goes a governed landing zone — identity, network, security, and cost guardrails — so every workload that lands inherits good defaults instead of accumulating exceptions.
How It Works
Every engagement follows the Splendor Transformation Framework — value gated at every stage, no big-bang cutovers.
Workload inventory with cost, risk, and dependency baselines — and the true cost of staying where you are.
Per-workload paths, landing-zone architecture, migration waves, and a cost model the CFO signs off on.
Wave-based migration with validation gates; then continuous optimization so the bill trends down, not up.
Outcomes
Right-sized workloads, retired duplicates, and a bill that reflects business value — with the savings measured, not promised.
Cloud spend mapped to business capabilities, so the CFO sees what each part of the business costs to run.
A governed landing zone where every new workload inherits identity, network, and policy controls automatically.
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FAQ
Migration moves workloads; modernization changes what they cost and how they perform. A lift-and-shift alone usually raises spend. Modernization decides per workload whether to rehost, replatform, re-architect, or replace — so the cloud bill reflects business value, not just relocated servers.
We inventory workloads against business capabilities, assess each for risk, dependencies, and cost, choose a path per workload, and sequence waves so early migrations are low-risk and prove the platform. Landing zone, security, and cost guardrails are built before the first workload moves.
Usually because workloads were lifted without being right-sized, tagged, or scheduled — and nobody owns the bill by capability. We fix visibility first (costs mapped to business capabilities), then optimize: right-sizing, reservations, autoscaling, and retiring what the migration was supposed to retire.
Governance is designed into the landing zone, not audited in later: identity and access baselines, network segmentation, encryption, policy-as-code, and logging that satisfies your auditors. Regulated industries get compliance mapped to their specific frameworks before workloads move.
Azure is our deepest expertise, and it's where most of our clients standardize. The approach — capability-mapped workloads, per-workload paths, governed landing zones, cost visibility — applies to any major cloud.
Cloud delivery and operations live in our Cloud Modernization & Operations practice.
Ready to move?
Bring last month's cloud bill — or the data center that was supposed to be closed by now. We'll show you what a workload-by-workload path to a governed, cost-visible foundation looks like.