Cloud Consulting
Navigate the cloud with confidence. Our certified cloud architects design and implement cloud strategies that reduce costs, improve scalability, and enhance security. Whether you are migrating to the cloud or optimizing your existing infrastructure, we ensure you get maximum value from your cloud investment.
What does Masarrati build for cloud consulting?
Masarrati provides cloud architecture and migration engineering across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud: landing zone design, workload assessment and migration, containerisation and Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and cost and security guardrails. Engagements produce a running environment with Terraform definitions, runbooks and documentation handed to your team, who then operate it.
Why This Matters
Cloud programmes fail in the second year, not the first. The migration completes, then costs rise because nothing was tagged, incidents take longer because logging was inconsistent, and a compliance audit finds controls that exist in one account and not the others. Deciding account structure, identity and policy before workloads move is unglamorous work, and it is what determines whether the environment stays manageable.
Standards We Build To
- ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO/IEC 27017 for information security and cloud-specific controls
- SOC 2 Trust Services Criteria where customers require independent attestation
- GDPR and India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, including residency and cross-border transfer obligations
- CIS Benchmarks and the cloud providers' well-architected frameworks used as configuration baselines
- PCI DSS where cardholder data is processed in the migrated environment
- UAE PDPL and sector data residency rules where workloads serve Gulf markets
What We Offer
Capabilities
Landing Zone Design
Account structure, network topology, identity federation, logging and guardrails are defined as code before workloads move, so later teams inherit boundaries rather than negotiating them.
Workload Assessment
Each application is profiled for dependencies, data gravity, licensing and change risk, then assigned a disposition: rehost, replatform, refactor, retain or retire, with effort attached.
Migration Execution
Waves are sequenced by dependency, with data replication, cutover rehearsal and a documented rollback path for each wave, so a failed move is recoverable rather than terminal.
Container Platform Engineering
Kubernetes clusters with ingress, service mesh where justified, secrets handling, autoscaling policies and golden deployment templates, so application teams ship without rebuilding platform plumbing.
Cost and Tagging Controls
Tagging standards, budget alerts, rightsizing analysis and commitment planning are built into the environment, so spend is attributable to a team and a workload from day one.
Security and Compliance Guardrails
Policy as code, encryption defaults, least-privilege roles, network segmentation and audit logging are provisioned with the environment and mapped to the control frameworks you must evidence.
Where This Gets Used
- Data centre exit: a wave-based migration of legacy workloads to a cloud landing zone with rollback plans per wave
- Platform foundation: a multi-account landing zone with identity federation, network segmentation and policy-as-code guardrails
- Container platform: a Kubernetes environment with deployment templates, autoscaling and secrets management for application teams
- Cost remediation: a tagging, budget and rightsizing programme making cloud spend attributable to teams and workloads
- Disaster recovery: a cross-region recovery design with defined objectives, replication tooling and tested failover runbooks
How We Deliver
Assessment
We inventory workloads, dependencies, data volumes and licensing, then assign each a migration disposition with effort
Foundation Build
Landing zone, identity, network and policy guardrails are provisioned as code before any workload moves
Migration Waves
Workloads move in dependency-ordered waves, each rehearsed, cut over and validated before the next begins
Enablement and Handover
Terraform definitions, runbooks and training transfer to your platform team, who own the environment afterwards
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
When should a company migrate to the cloud?
When facing scaling limitations, high infrastructure maintenance costs, slow deployment cycles, disaster recovery gaps, or the need for global presence. Masarrati provides free cloud readiness assessments.
What are the risks of cloud migration?
Data loss, downtime, cost overruns, security gaps, and vendor lock-in. Masarrati mitigates these through phased migration, rollback plans, multi-cloud strategies, and thorough testing at each stage.
How much can cloud migration reduce IT costs?
Typically 20-40% in infrastructure costs, plus indirect savings from faster deployments, reduced maintenance overhead, and elastic scaling. Masarrati implements FinOps practices to maximize cloud ROI.
What is a cloud-native architecture?
Applications designed specifically for cloud — using containers, microservices, serverless functions, and managed services. Cloud-native apps scale automatically, heal themselves, and deploy independently.
Do you support multi-cloud and hybrid cloud?
Yes. Masarrati designs architectures spanning AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments using Kubernetes, Terraform, and service mesh for consistent operations across clouds.
What is a cloud landing zone and why does it come before migration?
A landing zone is the pre-built foundation workloads move into: account or subscription structure, network topology, identity and access federation, centralised logging, encryption defaults and policy guardrails, all defined as code. Building it first means every workload inherits the same controls. Retrofitting these after applications are already running usually means touching every account, which costs far more than doing it at the start.
Do you operate our cloud environment after migration?
No. Masarrati designs, builds and migrates, then hands the environment over. You receive the infrastructure-as-code repository, architecture documentation, runbooks and knowledge transfer sessions, and your cloud accounts remain under your control throughout. If you want help afterwards, that is a separate engagement, typically enablement for your platform team or scheduled engineering work, rather than us holding operational responsibility for your systems.
How do you decide between rehosting, replatforming and refactoring an application?
By what the application will be asked to do next. Rehosting suits stable workloads leaving a data centre on a deadline. Replatforming suits systems where a managed database or container runtime removes real operational burden without changing the code much. Refactoring is justified when the application blocks delivery or cannot scale. Each disposition carries an effort and risk estimate, so the choice is a costed decision.
How is data residency handled when migrating to a public cloud?
Residency is set at design time through region selection, account boundaries and policy controls that prevent resources being created outside approved regions. Where law requires records to remain in a jurisdiction, we keep the primary store and its backups in-region and restrict cross-border replication. Encryption keys can be held in a regional key service or in your own hardware security module, depending on what your regulator expects.
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