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Cloud Assessment Planning Services

Know Your Cloud Costs and Risks Before You Commit

We evaluate your workloads, identify what should move, and deliver a prioritized plan with realistic cost projections.

Infrastructure Services/Cloud Assessment Planning Services

Trusted by businesses across the US

  • Downtime that costs real revenue
  • Security gaps nobody's watching
  • A stack held together by whoever set it up years ago
  • IT that only reacts after something breaks

Why Arising Media

We manage infrastructure as a system, not a ticket queue. Hosting, security, and monitoring run together under one accountable team, so problems get caught before they become outages.

Pricing

What Cloud Assessment Planning Services costs

A migration plan without an honest assessment behind it is just a guess with a deadline.

The engagement opens with a free consultation, followed by a comprehensive audit delivered within 7 business days.

  • A real cost picture
  • A documented cloud readiness scorecard
  • A validated strategy, not a guess
  • Architectural blueprints you can act on

We'll follow up with a scoped proposal after a quick conversation, no commitment.

You can't plan a migration you haven't measured

  • We don't have a clear picture of our full IT landscape or which workloads are actually ready to move
  • We don't know if the cloud will cost us more or less until someone runs the real numbers against our current infrastructure
  • We're unsure what security, compliance, or data sovereignty issues a migration might create for us
  • We need to choose between AWS, Azure, GCP, or a multi cloud approach and don't have the internal expertise to decide

A migration plan without an honest assessment behind it is just a guess with a deadline.

Clarity before you commit budget

A real cost picture. Detailed TCO analysis compares on premises costs against cloud alternatives so you know the financial case before you move a single workload.

A documented cloud readiness scorecard. You receive a full assessment report and readiness scorecard covering every application and dependency in your environment.

A validated strategy, not a guess. Stakeholder workshops and proof of concept development let us pressure test the plan before full scale implementation begins.

Architectural blueprints you can act on. Deliverables include migration priorities, timeline planning, and architectural blueprints for your target cloud environment.

This service is scoped per engagement rather than sold in fixed tiers -- here's what's included.

  • A real cost picture. Detailed TCO analysis compares on premises costs against cloud alternatives so you know the financial case before you move a single workload.
  • A documented cloud readiness scorecard. You receive a full assessment report and readiness scorecard covering every application and dependency in your environment.
  • A validated strategy, not a guess. Stakeholder workshops and proof of concept development let us pressure test the plan before full scale implementation begins.
  • Architectural blueprints you can act on. Deliverables include migration priorities, timeline planning, and architectural blueprints for your target cloud environment.
Delivery & Format
Using frameworks like the AWS Well Architected Framework and Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, we deliver a migration roadmap with phases, milestones, and a platform recommendation.
1

Infrastructure analysis

We use automated discovery tools alongside manual analysis to document your complete IT landscape, identify migration candidates, and score cloud readiness workload by workload.

2

Cost and risk assessment

We run a Total Cost of Ownership comparison against your current infrastructure, including right sizing and reserved instance planning, and evaluate compliance, latency, and dependency risks.

3

Strategy and roadmap

Using frameworks like the AWS Well Architected Framework and Azure Cloud Adoption Framework, we deliver a migration roadmap with phases, milestones, and a platform recommendation.

What do we actually receive at the end of the engagement?
A detailed assessment report, cloud readiness scorecard, migration roadmap with phases and milestones, cost benefit analysis, risk mitigation strategies, and architectural blueprints.
What happens first?
Your engagement begins with a comprehensive audit completed within 7 business days, providing detailed findings and strategic recommendations.
How much does this cost?
Pricing is determined through consultation based on your scope and objectives. The initial consultation is free, and payment is structured as an initial deposit with the balance distributed across implementation phases.
Do you help us choose a cloud platform?
Yes. Platform selection between AWS, Azure, GCP, or a multi cloud approach is part of the strategy development, based on your assessment findings and skill gap analysis.
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Andre and Arising Media are incredible at what they do and they have more than doubled our business. They go above and beyond to make sure that we succeed.

Brian Sirois
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Absolutely loved working with the Arising Media team. They are extremely helpful in explaining any process and answering questions thoughtfully. This is an awesome team that provides quality and expertise.

Venus Vega
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We have been working with Arising and Andre for years and their attentiveness to us is unmatched. Insightful direction on strategy and execution is perfect and has helped our business grow!!

Lana Camera
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Andre and his team at Arising Media are the most professional team I have come across in terms of Google Search with SEO and SEM. They are extremely knowledgeable and know how to execute a successful plan that converts to leads and revenue growth.

Jamie Taylor
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Could not be happier with Andre and his team's experience, professionalism, and support. They are so detail oriented. I could not be more grateful for all the time they took to get to know my brand so they could envision what I could not for myself.

Lily Ignatowski
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I've worked with Andre on and off for almost four years. He's kind, courteous, and professional. His work is always top quality and he's always available to answer any questions I might have.

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I am very happy with my webpage. Andre & his crew are very technologically up to date, creative & talented. He goes above & beyond the call of duty. Good quality workmanship, great value, very professional & responsive.

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Altin Muhaxheri
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Very responsive throughout entire process. Good experience.

Sean R
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Not only were they able to give me new digital boards for in-store but did a complete new website for me which is very easy to navigate. Very professional and hands on.

erolind simnica
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Andre and his team are amazing and keep the calls coming in. Keep up the good work.

Chuck Haug
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Best digital signage I've ever had! Awesome customer service! I love my website!

Marissa M
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High recommend Arising Media to anyone looking for digital solutions.

Jamie Taylor
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Andre and Arising Media are incredible at what they do and they have more than doubled our business. They go above and beyond to make sure that we succeed.

Brian Sirois
★★★★★

Absolutely loved working with the Arising Media team. They are extremely helpful in explaining any process and answering questions thoughtfully. This is an awesome team that provides quality and expertise.

Venus Vega
★★★★★

We have been working with Arising and Andre for years and their attentiveness to us is unmatched. Insightful direction on strategy and execution is perfect and has helped our business grow!!

Lana Camera
★★★★★

Andre and his team at Arising Media are the most professional team I have come across in terms of Google Search with SEO and SEM. They are extremely knowledgeable and know how to execute a successful plan that converts to leads and revenue growth.

Jamie Taylor
★★★★★

Could not be happier with Andre and his team's experience, professionalism, and support. They are so detail oriented. I could not be more grateful for all the time they took to get to know my brand so they could envision what I could not for myself.

Lily Ignatowski
★★★★★

I've worked with Andre on and off for almost four years. He's kind, courteous, and professional. His work is always top quality and he's always available to answer any questions I might have.

Charlie Serabian
★★★★★

I am very happy with my webpage. Andre & his crew are very technologically up to date, creative & talented. He goes above & beyond the call of duty. Good quality workmanship, great value, very professional & responsive.

Anne Lahr
★★★★★

Arising media is the best company to quickly develop a website or design a menu board.

Altin Muhaxheri
★★★★★

Very responsive throughout entire process. Good experience.

Sean R
★★★★★

Not only were they able to give me new digital boards for in-store but did a complete new website for me which is very easy to navigate. Very professional and hands on.

erolind simnica
★★★★★

Andre and his team are amazing and keep the calls coming in. Keep up the good work.

Chuck Haug
★★★★★

Best digital signage I've ever had! Awesome customer service! I love my website!

Marissa M
★★★★★

High recommend Arising Media to anyone looking for digital solutions.

Jamie Taylor

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