Cloud engineering you can run calmly

Strategy, modernization, and migration to Azure, with delivery pipelines, observability, and cost control designed in from day one. Winmill plans the move, does the engineering, and leaves you a system your team can operate.

  • Enterprise software since 1994
  • Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider
  • CISSP and CISA certified security leadership
  • Fortune 500 clients across North America
Strategy first

A roadmap before a single workload moves

Cloud projects fail in the planning they skipped. We start by translating your business goals into an actual architecture: landing zones, identity, networking, data, and application patterns, with the security and infrastructure requirements assessed up front. You get a written roadmap that balances speed, cost, and risk, and then we execute it with you.

The honest fork

Rehost, replatform, or rearchitect

Not every application deserves a rewrite, and not every lift-and-shift is a bargain. We tell you which of your systems should move as-is, which should be replatformed onto managed services, and which are worth rearchitecting into cloud-native patterns like containers, serverless, and event-driven workflows. The answer is per application, not per slogan.

Capabilities

What the engagement covers

Cloud strategy and architecture

Goals, constraints, and a pragmatic written plan for landing zones, identity, networking, and application patterns.

Modernization and migration

Legacy systems moved without interrupting the business, incrementally where it matters. We’ve retired PHP and COBOL systems whose original developers were long gone.

Cloud-native engineering

Containerization, serverless, and event-driven architectures on Azure managed services, so there are fewer servers to patch and less infrastructure to babysit.

AKS to Azure Container Apps

Observability and operations

Monitoring, logging, and alerting built in from the start, with CI/CD pipelines that make every deployment repeatable.

Cost control

Rightsizing, serverless alternatives, budget alerts, and architectures that scale down as gracefully as they scale up. One client saves more than $250,000 a year on the architecture we built.

Security alignment

Cloud architecture and application security assessed together, by a firm whose cybersecurity practice is in-house, so the environment meets your requirements rather than hoping about them.

Our work

Cloud engineering success stories

Common questions

Frequently asked questions

Do you only work on Azure?

Azure is where most of our clients’ cloud work runs and where our engineering depth is concentrated, and we also deliver on AWS where a client’s estate calls for it. One migration we ran covered hundreds of production applications across both.

Can you migrate without downtime?

That’s the design goal of incremental migration: move functionality in phases while the existing system keeps running, and maintain service levels through the transition. We migrated a firm’s entire application estate in ten months while meeting every existing deadline.

What happens to our costs?

Cost is an architecture decision, so we make it explicitly: rightsizing, managed and serverless services where they fit, and budget visibility from day one. You’ll see the cost model in writing before the build.

Who runs it afterward?

Your team, if you want it that way: we document the architecture and transfer knowledge as part of delivery. If you’d rather not run infrastructure at all, our Data Center and IT Support practice can operate it for you.

Leave the first call with a direction

Bring your application list and your constraints. We’ll give you a straight early read on what should move, what shouldn’t, and what to do first. We respond within one business day.

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