We design landing zones, target-state architectures, and TOGAF-aligned roadmaps that give your organisation a clear path from current state to cloud-native maturity — across any combination of Azure, AWS, and GCP.
Engineered for growing organisations.
Most organizations begin their cloud journey without a coherent architecture strategy — and pay for it in compounding technical debt, cost overruns, and compliance gaps that surface months after workloads are already running in production. Cloud sprawl across multiple accounts, subscriptions, and providers creates an ungovernable estate where security policies are inconsistent, cost attribution is impossible, and every new project reinvents foundational infrastructure from scratch. A cloud strategy engagement exists to prevent exactly this: establishing the architectural scaffolding before the first workload moves.
CloudForge approaches cloud strategy through a TOGAF-aligned methodology that begins with current-state discovery and ends with a validated target-state architecture backed by Architecture Decision Records. We map every workload, dependency, and integration point across your existing estate — whether that spans on-premises data centers, colocation facilities, or existing cloud footprints. From this baseline, we design landing zones with standardized account structures, network topologies, identity federation, and governance guardrails that enforce policy at the platform level rather than relying on individual teams to get it right.
Our multi-cloud architecture practice is vendor-neutral by design — we do not resell cloud services, which means our recommendations optimize for your workload requirements rather than our revenue. Whether your organization needs a single-provider strategy for operational simplicity or a multi-cloud approach for regulatory compliance and resilience, we deliver a roadmap sequenced by business value, technical dependency, and risk. Every decision is documented in ADRs that your architecture team can reference, challenge, and evolve for years after our engagement concludes.
Common scenarios where this service delivers the highest impact.
Organization moving from on-premises data centers needs a validated target-state architecture before touching a single VM or database.
Complete landing zone blueprint with network topology, identity design, and migration wave plan — reducing rework during execution by 80%.
Enterprise running workloads across 3+ cloud providers with no clear strategy, overlapping services, and inconsistent security posture.
Consolidated multi-cloud governance framework with workload placement criteria, unified identity, and provider-specific guardrails.
Organization needs a standardized account and subscription structure with governance guardrails before onboarding development teams.
Production-ready landing zone with account vending, network segmentation, centralized logging, and policy-as-code enforcement.
Integrating an acquired company's infrastructure — different cloud providers, overlapping tooling, conflicting naming conventions.
Unified architecture with consolidated identity, network peering, and phased workload consolidation plan with zero business disruption.
Organization wants to benchmark current cloud practices against industry standards and identify the highest-impact improvement areas.
Maturity scorecard across 8 capability domains with prioritized improvement roadmap aligned to Well-Architected Framework pillars.
A proven methodology built for growing organisations.
Map existing workloads, dependencies, and constraints across all environments
Define landing zones, network topology, identity, and governance guardrails
Sequence migration waves by business value, risk, and dependency order
Embed decision records and review cadences to prevent architectural drift
Migrating 340+ microservices from 3 aging data centers. The existing architecture was 5 years old with undocumented service dependencies, inconsistent security policies across environments, and no single team with full visibility of the estate.
CloudForge conducted a 12-week architecture assessment: automated dependency mapping across 340 services, catalogued 1,200+ integration points, and designed a multi-region Kubernetes target-state architecture with landing zones on two cloud providers for regulatory compliance.
CloudForge's architecture work meant we migrated 340 services over 14 months without a single architectural redesign. The ADRs they produced are still our source of truth two years later.
— CTO, European Financial Services Firm
Provider-agnostic infrastructure as code for landing zone provisioning, state management, and drift detection across multi-cloud estates.
Enterprise architecture modeling language for communicating complex system relationships to both technical and business stakeholders.
Framework for evaluating AWS workloads across operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability pillars.
Microsoft's reference architecture for multi-subscription environments with centralized governance, network topology, and identity management.
Google's opinionated Terraform modules for deploying production-ready GCP organizations with logging, networking, and IAM baselines.
Architecture Development Method providing a structured lifecycle for enterprise architecture — from vision through governance — adapted to cloud transformation programs.
Current-state architecture fully documented — workload inventory, dependency map, security posture assessment, and cost baseline established.
Target-state design validated with stakeholders — landing zone architecture, network topology, identity model, and governance framework reviewed and approved.
Migration wave plan finalized with business-value prioritization, dependency sequencing, risk ratings, and resource requirements per wave.
Landing zone deployed and tested — account structure, network connectivity, IAM federation, logging pipeline, and policy guardrails operational.
CloudForge has completed enterprise architecture reviews across financial services, logistics, SaaS, and government — giving us pattern recognition that accelerates every new engagement. We have seen what works at scale and, more importantly, what fails silently until it becomes a crisis.
Every engagement is staffed with TOGAF-certified architects who bring structured methodology rather than ad-hoc opinions. Architecture decisions are documented in ADRs with explicit rationale, trade-offs, and review dates — not buried in slide decks that nobody references after the kickoff meeting.
We are vendor-neutral by design. CloudForge does not resell cloud services, which means our recommendations optimize for your workload requirements and commercial leverage — not our referral margins. When we recommend a specific provider, it is because the technical and commercial analysis supports it.
Every recommendation we deliver is backed by Architecture Decision Records that your team can reference, challenge, and evolve for years after our engagement. We design for your team's autonomy, not our continued involvement.
Let's start with a technical conversation about your specific needs.