We're just running servers in the cloud.
Innovate faster while reducing cost and ops burden.
You lifted and shifted. The migration is done. But you’re not seeing the cost savings, the agility, or the operational improvements that justified the move. Your applications are running in AWS the same way they ran on-premise, and your team is starting to wonder what the point was.
Why the benefits never arrived
Lift-and-shift gets you to AWS fast. It doesn’t modernise anything.
Your monolithic applications are still monolithic. Your databases are still self-managed on EC2. Your deployment process is still manual. You traded a data centre for an AWS bill, and the bill is climbing because you’re not taking advantage of the managed services, auto-scaling, and serverless capabilities that make cloud economics work.
The longer you wait, the harder it gets. Technical debt accumulates. Your team’s skills stay locked to legacy patterns. And every month that passes without modernisation is a month your competitors are shipping faster, scaling cheaper, and operating more reliably.
What changes
We use AWS-prescribed modernisation pathways. A structured methodology called ModAx. To move your workloads from “running in the cloud” to “built for the cloud.”
You don’t modernise everything at once. We assess your applications, select 2-3 candidates, and match each to the right pathway: cloud native, containers, managed databases, open source, modern analytics, or modern DevOps. Your team works alongside ours through immersion days and execution sprints. Building modernisation capability, not just modern infrastructure.
The result isn’t just better architecture. It’s faster delivery, lower costs, reduced operational burden, and a team that knows how to keep modernising after we leave.
How we help
Move to Cloud Native
Incremental decomposition using strangler fig pattern, domain-driven design, and paired engineering with your team.
Service details…Move to Containers
Incremental container migration to ECS or EKS with automated CI/CD and platform selection based on your team's needs.
Service details…Design
Expert AWS architecture design. Clear decisions, documented trade-offs, and a blueprint your team can build from.
Service details…DevOps on Demand
Senior AWS engineers for scoped infrastructure projects. Delivered, documented, handed over.
Service details…Move to Managed Databases
Schema assessment, compatibility testing, and zero-downtime migration to managed AWS databases using DMS.
Service details…Move to Modern Analytics
Unify your data into a governed lake with real-time dashboards on AWS.
Service details…Move to Modern DevOps
Automated CI/CD pipelines on AWS. Every release tested, repeatable, and instant to roll back.
Service details…Move to Open Source
Migrate from proprietary stacks to open source on AWS. Cut licence costs and run on Graviton.
Service details…“The Logicata team walked us through aspects of our requirement that we had not considered.”
CTO , FinTech SaaS, 60 employees
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