Spell Solutions

AWS consulting, migration and managed cloud

AWS cloud consulting, with Azure and Google Cloud when they fit.

Architect, migrate, secure, and operate cloud environments with governance, cost control, and measurable reliability.

  • AWS Partner
  • Security and governance
  • Managed operations

What a cloud partner should do

Architecture, migration and the operations that follow.

A cloud consulting partner should do more than move servers. The real work is designing an environment that is secure by default, costs what you expect, recovers when something fails, and stays that way as your team ships changes.

We do that across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, and we run our own products on the same practices: infrastructure as code, least privilege access, tested backups, and monitoring that reaches a person when it matters.

What we deliver

Landing zones, identity, networking, and governance

Migrations and modernization for apps, servers, and data

DevOps with CI CD, infrastructure as code, and observability

Security with IAM, encryption, logging, and vulnerability response

FinOps cost optimization, tagging, budgets, and forecasting

Managed operations with monitoring, patching, backups, and disaster recovery

Migration paths

Choosing how each workload moves.

Not every application should move the same way. We recommend a path per workload based on risk, cost and how much change your team can absorb.

Rehost

Move as is to cloud infrastructure. The quickest route off aging hardware, with the least change to the application.

Replatform

Move with targeted changes such as managed databases or containers, cutting operational work without a rewrite.

Refactor

Rebuild parts of the application on cloud services, for workloads where scale, resilience or cost justify the effort.

Retire or replace

Some systems are better switched off or replaced by a managed service. Finding them early makes the migration smaller.

Common engagements

Choose a starting point. We align scope, timeline, and measurable outcomes before we execute.

Cloud readiness review

Architecture assessment, risk and security review, cost baseline, and a prioritized roadmap. Best for teams planning migrations or modernization.

Migration and modernization

Move workloads with a cutover plan, hardening, performance validation, and rollback options. Best for legacy apps, servers, and data platforms.

Managed operations

Monitoring, patching, backups, incident response, and ongoing governance with reporting. Best for production environments that require accountability.

How an engagement runs

From readiness review to steady operations.

01

Readiness review

Architecture, security and a cost baseline, with a prioritized roadmap.

02

Landing zone

Accounts, identity, networking, logging and guardrails set up as code before any workload arrives.

03

Migrate in waves

Workloads move in planned waves, each with a cutover plan, validation and a rollback option.

04

Harden and optimize

Security controls, monitoring, backups and sizing tuned against real usage.

05

Operate

Hand over with runbooks and knowledge transfer, or keep us on for managed operations.

Cost control

Cloud spend you can predict.

Tagging and ownership

Every resource tagged to a team and a purpose, so spend can be traced and questioned.

Budgets and alerts

Budgets per account and service, with alerts before spending runs over.

Right sizing

Compute, storage and databases sized to measured use and reviewed regularly.

Commitments

Savings plans and reserved capacity where usage is steady enough to justify them.

AI in cloud operations

AI is used to reduce operational effort and speed up incident response while keeping governance intact.

Incident summaries and runbook guidance

Config drift detection and compliance checks

Log analysis to accelerate root cause investigation

What you get

Architecture diagrams and a deployment plan

Security and governance recommendations

Cost and performance baselines with improvements

Runbooks for incident response and operations

Clear next steps and optional managed support

Questions

Cloud consulting questions.

What does an AWS consulting partner actually do?

Designs, migrates, secures and runs your AWS environment. Our plain-language guide explains what the work covers and what to ask before you hire one.

Do you only work on AWS?

No. Most of our work is on AWS, and we also deliver on Azure and Google Cloud, including hybrid setups when part of the estate has to stay on premises.

How do you keep downtime low during a migration?

Each wave has a cutover plan, data synchronization where needed, validation before traffic switches and a rollback path. Critical systems move in maintenance windows agreed with your team.

Will moving to the cloud lower our costs?

It can, but not automatically. Savings come from right sizing, retiring idle resources and committing to steady usage. We set a cost baseline first so the change is measured, not assumed.

Who owns the cloud accounts?

That is your choice. We can build in accounts your organization owns, with our access granted under least privilege, or host and manage the environment for you. It is agreed before any work starts.

Do you use infrastructure as code?

Yes. Infrastructure as code standardizes environments, enforces security guardrails and makes deployments repeatable across accounts and regions.

Ready to assess your environment

We can start with a cloud readiness review and turn it into a prioritized execution plan aligned to security, cost, and reliability.

Architecture sketcher

Describe your system. See the architecture.

Tell Spella what you are building or running, and she drafts an indicative AWS architecture the way our engineers would sketch it in a first conversation.