Cloud engineering · Businesses & MSPs
Hands-on design, build, migration, and ongoing management across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, IONOS, and Microsoft 365, plus the Linux and Windows Server environments that run on them. We do the work, not just the plan.
Start a scoping callWhat we work on
Bring us into a focused technical problem or a broader change program. The engagement is tailored to your environment and agreed priorities.
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Review or design cloud foundations around workloads, dependencies, and business needs. Make the trade-offs explicit before committing to a design.
Environment structure, network boundaries, connectivity, workload placement, and operating responsibilities.
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Plan and execute changes with a defined sequence, validation checks, and a rollback approach. Account for the systems and people that depend on each workload.
Discovery, dependency mapping, migration planning, cutover coordination, and post-move validation.
03
Review who can access what, how privileges are assigned, and where identity connects across environments. Build access decisions into the architecture.
Role design, privileged access, service identities, authentication requirements, and Microsoft 365 identity dependencies.
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Translate recovery needs into practical design and operating decisions. Review failure paths, backup dependencies, and recovery procedures against the agreed scope.
Recovery objectives, backup and restore planning, availability considerations, and agreed recovery validation.
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Capture the technical picture and the decisions behind it so the environment is understandable beyond the project team.
Architecture diagrams, configuration records, dependency notes, decision logs, and operating runbooks.
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Prepare your internal team or MSP to take ownership with context—not just credentials. Walk through the changes, open issues, and next actions.
Ownership boundaries, support procedures, knowledge transfer, outstanding risks, and agreed acceptance checks.
Engagement scope
Scoping establishes what is in scope, what is not, who approves changes, and what completion looks like. Work is planned around your team's access requirements and change process.
Identify workloads, tenants, connectivity, identity dependencies, and the teams or third parties involved.
Confirm authorized activities, required access, responsible owners, and approval points before making changes.
Agree on maintenance windows, migration stages, rollback decisions, validation checks, and acceptance criteria.
Document responsibilities, handoff expectations, and any ongoing operations or support that require a separate agreement.
What you receive
Deliverables are agreed during scoping. Depending on the engagement, these may include:
For MSP partners
Red Shift can work alongside your delivery team on architecture reviews, migrations, remediation, and complex cloud projects. You retain the client relationship; we agree on communication, approvals, and technical responsibilities up front.
Documentation and knowledge transfer are planned into delivery so your team has the context to support what changes. Ongoing management is available after the project ends and is scoped as a separate agreement.
Start with the technical picture
Tell us what you are changing, where the uncertainty is, and who will operate the environment afterward. We can discuss the scope, dependencies, and a practical path forward.
Discuss your cloud project