Cloud Migration Services.
Moving to the cloud can reduce costs, improve resilience and create a foundation for future innovation, but knowing what to migrate, where to migrate, and how to build a business case can be challenging.
ANS Cloud Navigator is a structured assessment designed for organisations still running on-premises infrastructure that want a clear, low-risk path to the cloud. In just a few weeks, we’ll assess your current environment, evaluate your applications and workloads, and provide a board-ready migration strategy tailored to your business.
Is a Cloud Navigator Right for Your Organisation?
Running Legacy Infrastructure
Ageing infrastructure, hardware refresh projects and data centre renewals often create a natural decision point. Understand whether moving to cloud is the right next step for your organisation.
Building a Business Case
Gain a clear view of projected costs, ROI and total cost of ownership, helping stakeholders make confident investment decisions
Unclear Application Landscape
Not every application should move to the cloud. We assess your workloads and identify the most appropriate migration strategy for each application and service.
Defining Your Cloud Strategy
Receive a target cloud architecture, operating model and phased migration roadmap aligned to your business goals and operational requirements.
What You'll Receive From a Cloud Navigator
In just a few weeks, ANS will assess your current environment and provide a clear, actionable plan for your cloud journey. Every Cloud Navigator engagement is designed to help you make informed decisions with confidence.
Cloud Readiness Assessment
Gain a detailed understanding of your current infrastructure, workloads and operational requirements, helping identify your readiness for cloud adoption.
Application Migration Roadmap
Understand which applications should move to cloud, which migration approach is most appropriate, and which workloads may be better retained on-premises.ROI & Cost Analysis
Receive total cost of ownership modelling, projected return on investment and commercial comparisons to support business case development.
Target Cloud Architecture
Get a high-level architecture aligned to governance, security, resilience and operational best practices.
Migration & Transition Plan
Receive a phased roadmap covering key milestones, timelines, dependencies and recommended next steps.
Board-Ready Recommendations
Provide stakeholders with a documented strategy, business case and executive-ready recommendations for future investment decisions.
Start Your Cloud Navigator Journey
Receive a tailored cloud migration strategy, application roadmap and business case designed around your organisation's goals, infrastructure and applications.
What's included?
✅ Cloud readiness assessment
✅ ROI & TCO analysis
✅ Executive-ready recommendations
Why Organisations Choose ANS
ANS combines technical expertise, commercial insight and strategic planning to help organisations make informed cloud adoption decisions with confidence.
Business-Led, Not Technology-Led
Cloud migration isn’t just an infrastructure decision. We help you evaluate costs, risks, operational impact and long-term business outcomes before building your migration strategy.
Expertise Across Azure, AWS & Hybrid Cloud
Whether you’re exploring Azure, AWS, hybrid environments or retaining selected workloads on-premises, ANS provides independent recommendations aligned to your requirements.
A Clear Business Case for Change
From application modernisation and infrastructure migration through to future operating models and governance, ANS helps organisations build a practical roadmap for cloud adoption.
Proven Cloud Transformation Experience
From application modernisation and infrastructure migration through to future operating models and governance, ANS helps organisations build a practical roadmap for cloud adoption.
ABP UK Cloud Migration
ABP wanted to modernise its infrastructure by migrating on-premise workloads to Microsoft Azure. After evaluating multiple partners, ABP awarded the Azure migration services to ANS for our extensive experience handling similar projects.
ANS has been like another member of the team; the working relationship has been excellent, and they have worked hard to understand the business and our requirements, delivering the right solution for us and the future. We’re looking forward to the benefits Azure Co-Managed Cloud offers us in the future.
Matt Hyland | Infrastructure Manager
ANS Cloud Migration Services
Migrate to Azure
With the highest Azure accreditation and our history of deploying Azure for SMBs since its 2010 launch, we can help you configure, deploy and manage Azure cloud to meet your business objectives.
Migrate to AWS
As an AWS certified partner, we provide expert support that goes beyond cloud migration. As we design repeatable solutions pre-configured for SMBs, we deploy AWS cloud quickly and efficiently.
Our Technology Partners
Our cloud migration services are based on the highest level partnerships with the world’s best cloud technology providers. We are in the top 1% of Microsoft accredited partners in the world and fully accredited as an AWS cloud expert.
FAQs: Cloud migration
What is cloud migration?
Why are you thinking of carrying out a cloud migration?
Common reasons to migrate to cloud include outgrowing your existing on-premises hardware, the need to consolidate a previously haphazard approach, being more cost-effective, being easier to scale and maintain, and offer greater flexibility.
What cloud migration approach is best suited for your business?
It’s important to decide whether you want to take a ‘Big Bang’ approach and migrate everything at once, or carry out a staged migration and, if so, over what timeframe. A lot of this will be governed by how much data there is to be migrated over to the cloud, what type of data it is, and whether or not it’s mission critical. Depending how much data there is to migrate and how comfortable your business is with the cloud already, this could be a very quick process or it could progress at a more steady pace. Once again, it’s important to speak with your migration specialist and whoever looks after your IT on a day-to-day basis to help establish the most sensible approach.
What potential pitfalls should businesses be aware of when doing a cloud migration?
There are five key potential problems businesses should be aware of are:
Failing to build a business case. It’s crucial to recognize that moving to the cloud involves strategic business decisions and organizational change. Making decisions solely based on technical aspects can lead to financial challenges and other issues.
Governance is key. Crucial for preventing cloud misuse and ensuring success from the outset.
Trying to do it all at once. If you expect to do it all at once using a copy and paste approach, it doesn’t work. There’s no such thing as one size fits all in cloud migration; not every application fits the cloud and it may need redeveloping to get to that point.
Keeping track of your budget and your performance. This is really, really important, because if you’ve got limitless technology that’s available to a developer, there’s a risk they will just go off and do their own thing. With that in mind, make sure you understand where the money’s being spent month by month – we at ANS use different technologies like monitoring tools like Cloud Health and LogicMonitor within our services to keep track of that.
People and the culture. Technical teams are often deeply invested in specific technologies, which can be a significant risk. It’s essential to ensure that your staff understands the migration process—before, during, and after—and why these changes are necessary. Engage your technical staff throughout the journey, fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous learning. This approach not only eases the transition but also enhances their buy-in and support, ensuring a smoother and more successful migration.