Netofficials delivers cloud strategy consulting, readiness assessments, platform selection and architecture reviews to IT leaders in the US, UK and Australia planning migration or reducing cloud spend.
Service Overview
Cloud consulting services are time-limited, advisory engagements in which Netofficials assesses your infrastructure, evaluates platform options across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, and produces written recommendations — giving your team an independent technical view before committing to migration or infrastructure spend.
Each engagement has a defined scope and ends with a concrete deliverable: a readiness report, a platform selection brief, an architecture review document, or a cost optimisation analysis. This is distinct from cloud infrastructure services, where Netofficials builds and operates environments on an ongoing basis. Consulting engagements inform the decisions that come before that build work begins.
This page covers four consulting areas: Cloud Readiness Assessment, cloud platform selection across AWS, Azure, and GCP, Cloud Architecture Review against the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and Cloud Cost Optimisation. If your organisation has already made platform decisions and is ready to execute, see cloud migration services for the implementation stage.
What We Deliver
Evaluates your current infrastructure, workloads, team skills and data estate to determine how prepared your organisation is for cloud migration. Netofficials reviews on-premises systems, application dependencies and compliance requirements, then produces a Cloud Readiness Report with a prioritised migration roadmap. Most useful before committing to any cloud platform or migration spend.
Guides the AWS vs Microsoft Azure vs Google Cloud Platform decision using a structured framework based on your workload type, existing team expertise, vendor relationships and total cost profile. The engagement produces a Platform Recommendation Document that explains the rationale behind the recommended platform and flags risks in alternatives. Suited to organisations evaluating cloud for the first time or reconsidering an existing commitment.
Reviews your existing cloud setup against the five pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimisation. Netofficials maps findings to specific configuration gaps and produces an Architecture Review Report with prioritised remediation actions. Applicable to AWS environments and adaptable to equivalent review frameworks on Azure and GCP.
Audits your current cloud spend across AWS, Azure or GCP to identify idle resources, over-provisioned instances, unoptimised storage and unused reserved capacity. Netofficials produces a Cost Optimisation Report that separates quick wins from structural changes, so your team can act immediately without waiting for a full re-architecture. Cost depends on the number of accounts, regions and services in scope.
Defines how your organisation distributes workloads across two or more cloud providers to meet availability, data residency or vendor-independence requirements. Netofficials assesses workload portability, networking complexity and operational overhead before recommending a multi-cloud model. The deliverable is a Multi-Cloud Strategy Document covering platform boundaries, data flows and governance responsibilities.
Produces a detailed inventory of your current infrastructure and classifies each workload by migration pattern: rehost, replatform, refactor, retire or retain. Netofficials uses the audit output to inform architecture decisions and Terraform-based infrastructure planning for subsequent migration or modernisation work. Relevant to organisations with mixed on-premises and cloud environments.
Our Process
A Netofficials consultant meets with your IT lead or CTO to understand your current infrastructure, business objectives, and the specific problem driving the engagement — migration planning, cost overrun, architecture review, or platform selection. You receive a scoped brief confirming what the engagement will cover and what data you need to share.
Your team provides access to architecture diagrams, cloud billing exports, workload inventories, and any existing documentation. Netofficials may also request read-only access to your AWS, Azure, or GCP environment. This step defines the depth of analysis possible and is the primary factor that determines how long the engagement takes.
Netofficials engineers audit your infrastructure against relevant frameworks, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework where applicable. The analysis covers workload fit, idle and over-provisioned resources, security posture, resilience gaps, and platform alignment. No changes are made to your environment during this step.
You receive a written report covering findings, prioritised recommendations, and — where relevant — platform selection rationale or a cost optimisation plan. The report is followed by a live walkthrough with your team so decision-makers can ask questions and understand the reasoning behind each recommendation before committing to any next step.
Platforms & Frameworks
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)AWS Well-Architected FrameworkGoogle Cloud Architecture FrameworkMicrosoft Azure Well-Architected Framework
TerraformAWS CloudFormationAzure BicepAWS Cost ExplorerAzure Cost ManagementGoogle Cloud BillingAWS Trusted AdvisorAzure MonitorWho This Is For
We know we need to move to cloud, but we have not assessed which workloads are ready, which platform fits our compliance requirements, or what the migration will actually cost.
A Cloud Readiness Assessment and platform recommendation — covering AWS, Azure or GCP — gives your team a documented basis for the migration decision before any infrastructure spend is committed.
Our AWS or Azure bill keeps climbing, but we cannot identify whether the cause is idle resources, over-provisioned instances, architectural drift, or a combination of all three.
A Cloud Architecture Review and cost optimisation audit identifies specific waste by workload, produces a prioritised remediation plan, and gives your team actionable findings rather than a generic report.
We are being asked to decide between AWS, Azure and GCP — or a combination — without an independent view of how each platform maps to our existing workloads, vendor contracts and long-term risk profile.
An independent platform selection engagement from Netofficials produces a structured comparison against your workload requirements, compliance obligations and operational constraints, with a clear written recommendation your leadership team can act on.
Industry Applications
Architecture reviews focused on the security and reliability pillars, covering encryption, access controls, audit logging, and compliance with financial data regulations.
Cost optimisation and performance reviews as products scale, identifying over-provisioned instances, idle resources, and right-sizing opportunities across AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Explore SaaS and Technology CompaniesReadiness assessments covering data residency requirements, workload classification, and the compliance controls needed before moving patient or regulated data to cloud.
Platform selection and architecture guidance for variable-load workloads, balancing cost predictability during low-traffic periods with capacity for peak seasonal demand.
FAQ
Cloud consulting is a time-limited advisory engagement that produces specific deliverables — a readiness assessment, architecture review, platform recommendation or cost optimisation report — after which the engagement closes. Cloud infrastructure services, by contrast, involve Netofficials operating, monitoring and maintaining your cloud environment on an ongoing basis. The two can follow each other: consulting first, then managed operations once a strategy is confirmed.
Duration depends on the number of workloads being assessed, the complexity of your existing infrastructure, data volumes, and how many environments — development, staging, production — are in scope. A focused assessment covering a small number of applications takes less time than one spanning a large, distributed estate with multiple databases and third-party integrations. Netofficials scopes each assessment before work begins so you have a clear timeline upfront.
The right platform depends on your workload type, your team's existing skills, your software licensing position, and the cost model that fits your usage patterns. Organisations already using Microsoft 365 or Windows Server often find Microsoft Azure a natural fit. Data-intensive and machine-learning workloads frequently suit Google Cloud Platform. AWS offers the broadest service catalogue and is often preferred for net-new builds. Netofficials evaluates all three against your specific requirements before making a recommendation.
Yes. Netofficials conducts AWS architecture reviews using the AWS Well-Architected Framework across all five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimisation. The review produces a written findings report that identifies risks and prioritises remediation steps. This is useful for teams that have grown their AWS environment organically and want an independent view before committing to further infrastructure spend. See our AWS architecture and operations page for more detail.
The AWS Well-Architected Framework is AWS's published set of best practices for designing and operating cloud workloads, structured across five pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency and cost optimisation. It matters because it gives architects and reviewers a consistent, vendor-documented standard against which to measure an existing setup. Gaps identified through the framework translate directly into actionable changes — tightening IAM policies, right-sizing instances, improving backup coverage or restructuring for fault tolerance.
Each engagement type produces a written output. A cloud readiness assessment delivers a report covering workload suitability, risk factors and a migration readiness score. A platform selection engagement delivers a structured comparison and a documented recommendation. An architecture review delivers a findings report with prioritised remediation steps. A cost optimisation review delivers an itemised list of idle resources, over-provisioned instances and configuration changes with projected impact. All reports are designed to inform internal decisions and, where relevant, support cloud migration services that follow.
