Infrastructure that scales limitless.
AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud migrations — designed for cost efficiency, resilience, and enterprise compliance.
The challenge
Cloud bills grow faster than the value they return
Lift-and-shift without payback
Moving workloads unchanged moves the cost, not the benefit. We re-platform where it pays and retire what does not.
Unmanaged sprawl and spend
Idle resources and untagged accounts quietly inflate cost. FinOps guardrails keep every dollar attributable.
Resilience gaps
Single-region designs and untested recovery plans turn outages into board-level events.
VFACE architects cloud environments that reduce cost and complexity — not just move the same problems to different infrastructure. With certifications across AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud, we select the right platform for your workload, then govern the spend after migration.
What we offer
Cloud Services services
Cloud Migration & Modernisation
Lift-and-shift, re-platform, and re-architect strategies with zero-downtime cutover plans and full rollback coverage.
IBM Cloud & Red Hat OpenShift
Container orchestration, OpenShift cluster deployment, and hybrid cloud architecture connecting on-premise data centres to public cloud.
AWS Solutions Architecture
Well-architected workloads on AWS including serverless, containerised, and data-intensive architectures designed for scalability and compliance.
Azure Enterprise Integration
Microsoft Azure deployment and Active Directory integration for enterprises with existing Microsoft licensing and Office 365 ecosystems.
FinOps Cost Optimisation
Reserved instance analysis, workload right-sizing, and automated anomaly detection that consistently delivers 30–50% cloud spend reductions.
Cloud-Native Development
Microservices decomposition, serverless function design, and event-driven architecture that eliminates legacy monolith operational overhead.
Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Architecture
Consistent governance, security policy, and workload placement across AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, and on-premise environments simultaneously.
DevSecOps & CI/CD
Pipeline design integrating security scanning, compliance gates, and automated testing into deployment workflows from day one.
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
RTO/RPO-aligned recovery architectures with automated failover, tested quarterly against documented runbooks.
Cloud Governance & Compliance
Policy-as-code frameworks, data residency enforcement, and continuous compliance monitoring for ISO 27001, GDPR, and sector-specific regulations.
How we build
Engineering principles behind every engagement
Assess before you move
A portfolio assessment sorts every workload into retire, retain, re-host, re-platform or rebuild.
- Dependency and cost mapping
- Business case per workload
- Wave plan with rollback
Technology we work with
- IBM Cloud
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- GitHub Actions
- IBM Cloud
- AWS
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud
- Red Hat OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Docker
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- GitHub Actions
How we deliver
From first workshop to production in four steps
Assess the estate
Inventory workloads, dependencies and costs, then rate each one for migration risk and value.
Design the landing zone
Set up accounts, networking, identity and guardrails before the first workload moves.
Migrate in waves
Move workloads in sequenced waves with rollback plans and parallel running where needed.
Optimise and govern
Right-size spend, automate operations and report cost and security posture monthly.
Your first 90 days
What you can expect, phase by phase
Assess and design
- Application portfolio assessment
- Target architecture and cost model
- Landing zone design
- Migration wave plan
Build the foundation
- Landing zone and CI/CD live
- Security baseline and monitoring
- Pilot workload migrated
- FinOps tagging and budgets
Migrate and optimise
- First production waves cut over
- Performance and cost tuning
- Runbooks and team enablement
- Roadmap for remaining waves
Proven results
Client case studies
An eight-hospital NHS trust was running patient records across three incompatible on-premise systems, spending £2.8M annually on maintenance with a 4-hour average discharge process.
- Spend reduced from £2.8M to £1.4M annually via FinOps optimisation on IBM Cloud
- Average patient discharge time cut from 4 hours to 45 minutes
- NHS data governance compliance achieved across all eight sites within the migration window
A UK digital bank needed to migrate core banking workloads from legacy on-premise to cloud while maintaining zero downtime during peak trading hours.
- Core banking migration completed in 14 weeks with zero customer-facing downtime
- IBM Cloud Pak replaced 6 middleware vendors with a single governed platform
- Deployment frequency increased from monthly to daily releases post-migration
A Southeast Asian e-commerce platform with 12M monthly users was unable to handle seasonal traffic spikes, resulting in 4-hour outages during sale events worth $800K in lost revenue.
- Auto-scaling architecture on AWS handled 10× traffic peaks without intervention
- Infrastructure cost reduced by 38% outside peak periods through automated workload scheduling
- Zero outages across three consecutive sale events after migration
Industry benchmark
Typical outcomes from our cloud programmes
Infrastructure cost reduction
Deployment frequency uplift
Unplanned downtime
Lower is better
Figures are indicative ranges from typical engagements compared with published industry surveys. Results vary by scope and starting point.
The difference
What changes when the work is done
Before VFACE
- Ageing data centres and unpredictable capex
- Manual provisioning that takes weeks
- Cloud bills nobody can explain
After VFACE
- Elastic capacity billed for what you use
- Infrastructure as code, provisioned in minutes
- Tagged spend with owners and budgets
Ways to work with us
Engagement models that fit how you buy
Fixed-scope project
A defined outcome, a fixed timeline, one accountable team.
- Scoped in a two-week discovery
- Milestone-based delivery and sign-off
- Best for pilots and well-bounded builds
Dedicated team
Senior engineers embedded in your programme for the long run.
- Scales up or down by the sprint
- Works inside your tools and rituals
- Best for multi-quarter roadmaps
Managed service
We run it, monitor it and improve it after go-live.
- 24x7 support with agreed SLAs
- Continuous optimisation and reporting
- Best for production platforms
Security and governance
Security and compliance on the platform
Shared-responsibility clarity
A written control matrix shows who owns what across provider and your team.
Identity and access
Least-privilege roles, SSO and short-lived credentials by default.
Data residency
Region and sovereignty controls for UK, EU, Gulf and APAC requirements.
Audit readiness
Continuous control evidence aligned to ISO 27001 and SOC 2 criteria.
Questions answered
Frequently asked questions
Insights and news
What is happening in the industry, and what we think
Industry headlines, last 30 days
Headlines via Google News. Third-party content; VFACE does not endorse the linked articles.
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News, articles and related services
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