Cloud consultancy and advisory services.

Get advice and recommendations no matter where you are on your cloud transformation journey – from cloud adoption to management and optimisation.

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Trusted advise and expertise.

Knowing where to start when it comes to cloud can be extremely daunting. You may be searching for answers to your questions and may lack the skills and knowledge to be able to complete a cloud migration in house. That’s where we can help. Our cloud advisory services team brings together the UK’s best cloud experts along with the latest methodologies and best practice approaches to develop cloud solutions and services for your organisation, based on your unique needs. 

We understand every industry has different challenges and requirements when it comes to cloud adoption, management and optimisation which is why we’ve developed deep expertise across the public and private sectors.

ANS have been recognised as an Azure Expert MSP and AWS Advanced Consulting Partner due to our extensive knowledge of these cloud platforms. This blend of expertise, experience, and ecosystem enables ANS to help its customers at each stage of their cloud transformation journey.

Our cloud advisory services can help you get answers to the following questions:

Where should I start on my cloud journey?
What applications can be ‘lifted and shifted’ and which ones need to be refactored?
Which applications should I migrate first?
How long will a migration take and what will it cost?
When will I see a return on investment?
How can I get buy-in from stakeholders?
Which cloud platform is best suited to my requirements?
What benefits can cloud bring to my business?

What you get with our Cloud Consulting and Advisory services?

Cloud strategy recommendations.

We’ll provide insights and recommendations to help you take the next step in your cloud journey.

A cloud operating model.

We’ll help define and recommend the most appropriate cloud operating model for you based on your organisations individual requirements.

A cloud roadmap.

Our cloud experts will guide you through any potential pitfalls and build your cloud roadmap including the business, processes, people and technology to ensure you achieve your business goals.

Board ready outputs.

We’ll arm you with board-ready outputs, a strategy document, business case and presentation.

How we deliver our cloud advisory services?

We deliver our cloud advisory services using ‘Navigators’. Navigators are free of charge engagements that give you clear insights and recommendations. All of our Navigators will give you board-ready outputs, a strategy document, business case and presentation to help secure buy-in from your stakeholders.

Cloud Navigators for every stage of your cloud adoption and optimisation journey.

I'm considering migrating to the cloud.

Our Cloud Migration Navigator is a free of charge consultation which will provide you with a tailored transition strategy, future state architecture & business case.

I'm already in the cloud but not seeing the benefits.

We'll help you optimise your cloud security & governance and even reduce costs with our free Cloud Check Navigator.

I want to adopt a hybrid cloud strategy.

Want the best of both worlds? Using our Hybrid Cloud Navigator we'll identify suitable 'cloud candidate' apps & provide a recommended transition strategy for each app.

I'm looking for a partner to help manage my cloud environment.

You've come to the right place! Let us take care of optimising your public cloud environment while you focus on doing what you do best.

Want to know how our Cloud Advisory Services can help your business?

Speak to one of our cloud experts today to find out how we can help you optimise your IT budget, and increase your agility and resilience.

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“ANS has reinvented the service management model for the cloud world and brought with them a new way of thinking. This fresh approach combined with their Azure expertise is really helping us control and manage our cloud services as well as advising us on new and emerging services that can help us grow. Together with ANS, we are evolving our approach to cloud service management and I look forward to continuing to work with ANS to maximise the potential of cloud.”

Rob Bruce

Head of Technology & IT Support

PRS for Music