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Cloud Platforms We Work With

Ready to Move to the Cloud?

Cloud Services in Dubai and the UAE

We work with companies across the Emirates that are moving off ageing on-premise servers, or that went to the cloud quickly during a growth period and are now paying for capacity nobody uses. Both are common, and they need opposite fixes.

What we actually do

• Assessment before anything moves. What runs where, what depends on what, and what genuinely needs to be migrated versus retired. Most estates contain servers nobody can explain.
• Migration — lift-and-shift when the priority is speed, re-architecture when the priority is cost. They are different projects with different budgets and we say which one you are buying.
• Cost optimisation — right-sizing, reserved capacity, and shutting down what runs at night for no reason. This is where most of the savings are, and it does not require migrating anything.
• Managed operations — monitoring, patching, backups and incident response once it is running.
• Security and compliance — identity and access, network segmentation, encryption, and data residency, which matters if your data has to stay in the region.

Data residency in the UAE

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all operate regions in the UAE. If your sector requires data to remain in the country, that is a design decision taken at the start, not a setting toggled afterwards. We check it before proposing anything.

AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

The honest answer is that the platform matters less than how it is configured. All three do the job. What usually decides it:

• AWS — the widest service catalogue and the deepest talent pool. Sensible default when there is no reason to prefer another.
• Azure — if you already run Microsoft 365, Active Directory and Windows Server, the integration and licensing usually make it cheaper in practice.
• Google Cloud — strong when the workload is data and analytics heavy.

Beware of anyone who recommends a platform before asking what you run today. That is a partnership talking, not an assessment.

What Cloud Actually Costs

Cloud bills surprise people because the pricing is real-time and the commitment is nil. Where the money goes:

• Compute — the obvious one, and the easiest to over-provision. Environments sized for peak and left running around the clock.
• Storage — cheap per gigabyte, expensive when nobody ever deletes anything.
• Data transfer — the line that catches people out. Moving data out costs money; moving between regions costs more.
• Managed services — you pay more per unit but stop paying an engineer to maintain it. Often worth it.

The first month after a migration is almost always higher than expected. Right-sizing happens after you have real usage data, not before.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: How long does a migration take?

A: It depends on how many systems are involved and how well documented they are. A single application can be weeks; an estate with undocumented dependencies is months. The assessment tells you which one you have before you commit.

Q: Will it be cheaper than our servers?

A: Not automatically. Migrated badly, cloud is more expensive. It becomes cheaper when workloads are right-sized and you stop paying for idle capacity. That is optimisation work, not migration work.

Q: Can our data stay in the UAE?

A: Yes. All three major providers have regions in the country. It has to be designed in from the start.

Q: What happens to our current IT team?

A: Their work changes rather than disappears: less hardware maintenance, more automation and architecture. The transition works best when they are involved in the migration rather than told about it afterwards.

Q: Do we have to move everything?

A: No, and usually you should not. Hybrid setups are normal. Some systems have no business case for moving.

Further Reading

• AWS Managed Services in Dubai: Scope, SLAs and Costs
• Business Intelligence and analytics services
• Request a free infrastructure assessment