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Cloud Consulting and
Strategy Services
Vervali assesses what you run today, models what it would cost to run it in the cloud or run it better, and gives you a plan you can act on: target architecture, migration sequence, cost model, security and compliance considerations, and the decisions that have to be made before anyone writes code. You are not required to hire us to build it.
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450+ projects
275+ engineers
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CMMI Maturity Level 3The process is written down and repeats
ISO 9001:2015Quality management
ISO/IEC 27001Information security
What You Receive at the End of a Strategy Engagement
Eight documents, yours to act on with us, with your own team or with another builder.
Current-State Assessment
What you run, what it costs, the dependencies nobody documented, the compliance obligations and the team's actual skills.
Target Architecture
Where each workload should live and why, with architecture diagrams your engineers and your board can both read.
Migration Sequence
Which moves come first, which depend on which, and where the cutover risk sits in each step.
Cost Model
What it costs to run today and in the target state, with every assumption shown so a later invoice cannot contradict the plan.
Risk Register
What could go wrong, how likely it is, who owns it, and what we could not see during the assessment.
Decision List
The decisions that must be signed before anyone writes code: identity, residency, cutover and who operates it.
Governance Documents
Tagging, access, cost ownership and change rules, so the estate stays in the shape the plan describes.
Migration Pilot Plan
The first workload to move, how success is measured, and what the pilot must prove before the rest follows.
Know the cost, the sequence and the risks before anyone writes code.
Book an AssessmentHow the Assessment Is Done
Typically 2 to 4 weeks of estate review and interviews, 9am to 1pm Eastern with delivery from India.
Estate, Costs and Obligations
The IT landscape, what it costs to run, the security and compliance posture, and the business goals the roadmap has to serve. From your side we need the people who run the estate and the person who owns the budget.
People, Not Only Diagrams
The assessment interviews people as well as reading infrastructure. A diagram without the operator who still knows the batch job is how plans fail in week six. We speak to the engineers, the application owners and whoever signs the invoices, so the plan reflects how the estate really runs.
What We Could Not See
We write down what we could not see: systems without access, undocumented integrations and costs nobody could attribute. That gap goes into the risk register with an owner and a way to close it, not into a surprise after you have signed a build.
Multi-Cloud and Vendor Lock-In
Multi-cloud costs more than it saves for most organisations. We support it when the reason is real.
When Multi-Cloud Is Right
When a regulator, a contract or a customer requires a second venue. Not because a slide said best of breed. The plan says which reason applies to you, or that none does.
The Lock-In That Matters
Data gravity and managed services, rather than compute. The plan names which services would be expensive to leave and whether that trade is worth it.
The Clouds We Name
AWS, Azure and Google when they are already in your estate. Vervali builds on AWS and Azure through cloud application development, but the plan can be executed by anyone.
Cost Management and FinOps
Where the money actually goes, who owns each line, and the practice that stops it growing back.
Where the Money Goes
Idle capacity, over-provisioned instances, storage tiers nobody reviewed, data transfer, and the environments nobody switched off. A first review produces that list with owners.
A Practice, Not a Report
Tagging standards, budgets and monitoring, so the list does not grow back. A dashboard without an owner is not FinOps.
Figures We Can Stand Behind
We do not publish a typical savings percentage we cannot evidence. When your review produces a cost-reduction figure, it goes in your report with the working shown.
Compliance, Residency and Data Protection
The obligations that shape a cloud design go into the target architecture, so the build does not discover them later.
Residency and Encryption
Where data may live, who holds the keys, and how encryption is applied in transit and at rest. GDPR and HIPAA are named when they apply to you.
Logging and Shared Responsibility
Audit logging that an auditor will accept, and a written split of what the provider secures and what your team must secure.
Evidence and Sign-Off
Testing and evidence for an auditor run as a separate cloud security and compliance engagement. Vervali tests a client's systems for SOC 2 readiness and is not itself SOC 2 certified.
From Strategy to Build
The plan is yours. You are not required to hire us to build it, and strategy alone is a complete engagement.
Strategy Only
Blueprints, the cost model and the decision list, handed to your team or another builder. Priced as strategy, with no build assumed.
Blueprint to Build
If you ask, the same people who wrote the sequence run the first workloads through cloud application development, with load and a compliance check before a large customer asks.
Migration and Operations
Execution of the sequence through cloud migration and modernisation, and the pipeline and operating model through DevOps consulting and CI/CD.
Proof From Delivery
Systems we have built and tested at the scale our plans are written for.
Two private-sector banks · lending platforms
60% faster loan processing and 50% less agent onboarding time, with the compliance the engagement required. Strategy work for a bank follows the same sequence: what you run, what it must become, what it costs, and what must be signed before a migration starts.
60% faster loan processing50% less agent onboarding timeDiagnostics chain · back end
The back end of a diagnostics chain: the integrations and the load that patient volume actually produces. A cloud plan that ignores that estate is a slide, which is why the assessment interviews the operators who still know the batch jobs.
Diagnostics back endCybersecurity SaaS · DDoS simulation
A cybersecurity SaaS product under DDoS simulation. Strategy for a SaaS estate includes how it fails and what it costs to absorb that failure, not only where the workloads should live.
DDoS simulationFrequently Asked Questions
A current-state assessment, a target architecture, a migration sequence with dependencies, a cost model with the assumptions shown, a risk register, and the decisions that must be made before anyone writes code. Governance docs and a migration pilot plan are in that pack. That is what lands on the desk. You can execute it with us or without us. Book a cloud assessment to see that list against your estate.
Because a move without a sequence, a cost model and a signed decision list is how spend appears in month three with no owner. Strategy aligns migration, architecture and governance with the outcome you actually want, including cost control. The assessment interviews people as well as reading infrastructure, so the batch job nobody documented is in the plan.
Yes, as a plan, when a regulator, a contract or a customer requires a second venue. Multi-cloud costs more than it saves for most organisations. The lock-in worth worrying about is data gravity and managed services. We still name the clouds you run, including AWS, Azure and Google when they are already in the estate. Vervali builds on AWS and Azure. The plan can be executed by anyone.
Both, if you ask. We deliver blueprints only, or end-to-end implementation with pilot support, and the plan is yours either way. Strategy without a build is a complete engagement on its own. If you want Vervali to build it, that work runs through our cloud application development and cloud migration and modernisation teams, with the same people who wrote the sequence. You are not required to hire us to build it.
Typically 2 to 4 weeks, depending on scope and complexity. Time starts when we can interview the people who run the estate and see the cost and dependency picture. A larger estate, or a FinOps review in the same pass, sits at the long end. The quote names the weeks after that look, not before. From your side we need the operators and the person who owns the budget.
Current-state assessment, target architecture, migration sequence with dependencies, cost model with assumptions shown, risk register, decisions that must be made before code, plus governance docs and a migration pilot plan. Architecture diagrams are in that set. See what a strategy engagement delivers on the call. The documents are yours to take to another builder if you choose.
Yes. Cost optimisation, tagging standards, budgeting and monitoring are in the offer. A first review finds idle capacity, over-provisioned instances, storage tiers, data transfer and environments left on. A continuing practice keeps owners on those tags. We do not invent a savings percentage for the headline. FinOps without an owner is a dashboard.
Yes. Residency, encryption and key ownership, audit logging and the shared responsibility split go into the target architecture, and GDPR and HIPAA are named when they apply to you. Testing and evidence for an auditor run as a separate cloud security and compliance engagement. Vervali tests a client's systems for SOC 2 readiness and is not itself SOC 2 certified. We design the constraints, and an auditor or a QSA signs.
Price follows the size of the estate, how many applications are in, whether FinOps is in the same pass, and whether a migration pilot is in the pack. Clutch lists Vervali at $25 to $49 per hour. We quote after a cloud assessment look, not as a published day-rate. Strategy without a build is priced as strategy. A build, if you want one, is a separate line.
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