Discovery first
Workloads, compliance, team capacity, and failure domains come first. Assumptions are written down so operators inherit more than a diagram.
Cloud architecture you can actually operate.
Arrow designs and builds AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments with the same engineers who will run them. Discovery comes first, designs are lab-validated where it matters, and security review is standard scope.
Discover, validate, secure.
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We map your environment and constraints before we design anything.
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We lab-validate every architecture before it reaches production.
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Security review ships as standard scope on every engagement.
Why does cloud consulting fail without an ops model?
Many cloud consulting engagements optimize for the workshop and stop there. Designs land without failure domains, without an ops model, and without security review until something is already in production. Arrow starts with how the estate will be watched, changed, and recovered, then builds the architecture to match.
Security in the first decisions
Identity, segmentation, logging, and detection paths belong in the architecture from the start.
Operable from go-live
The ops model is a design input: Arrow Managed Cloud, Managed Cloud, or your own team with a clear handoff.
Built for cloud estates you can run.
What an engagement covers, where it stops, and who stays when the build is done.
What engagements cover
What does a cloud consulting engagement cover?
Landing zones, network and identity guardrails, platform patterns, and build-out that survives real change windows. It is not a generic IT strategy binder, and it is not a preferred-cloud sales motion.
- Landing zones and guardrails
- Platform patterns that fit the workload
- Build that survives change windows
Consulting vs Advisory
How is Cloud Consulting different from Advisory?
Cloud Consulting is architecture and build for a cloud estate on AWS, Azure, or hybrid. Questions that span network, security, and operations sit with Advisory & Engineering. When you need both, Arrow keeps the work linked so nothing is done twice.
- Cloud estates: AWS, Azure, hybrid
- Cross-estate questions go to Advisory
- One linked plan when you need both
Why Arrow
Who stays when the build is done?
The same people. A senior architect leads, engineers execute, and documentation lands at every phase. Consulting connects to Migration & Modernization and Arrow Managed Cloud under one accountability model, so nobody leaves the moment the build starts.
- Senior architect leads
- Documentation at every phase
- Same names after go-live
Fit over catalog pressure.
AWS, Azure, and hybrid estates, with the cloud and pattern chosen for the workload. Single-cloud is fine when it’s the right call.
The people who design it
can stay on to run it.
From discovery to runbooks your team can use.
Staged delivery with defined success criteria, so the floor that inherits the estate isn’t starting from zero.
Discover
Short, structured discovery sets workloads, constraints, and success criteria: what must be true for go-live and for steady state.
Design
Target architecture and landing-zone guardrails, with assumptions written down so the design can be interrogated.
Security review
Standard scope on every engagement, designed into the landing zone and build from the start.
Build
Configuration under change control. Where risk warrants it, patterns are proven in the lab before they touch production.
Transfer
Documentation, runbooks, and knowledge transfer, then a clear connection to migration or managed operations.
Migration & Modernization
Wave-based moves with rollback, and the same names after cutover.
Hybrid & Multi-Cloud
One operating model across on-prem, private, and public cloud.
Cost & Workload Optimization
Rightsize the architecture, then keep it sized.
Arrow Managed Cloud
Provisioning, monitoring, cost, and response on one team.
Advisory & Engineering
Cross-estate design across network, security, and operations, with cloud in scope when the question requires it.
FAQs
How is Cloud Consulting different from Advisory & Engineering?
Cloud Consulting is architecture and build for an AWS, Azure, or hybrid cloud estate. Advisory & Engineering covers cross-estate design across network, security, and ops. Each gets the design team suited to that estate.
Do you arrive with a fixed reference architecture?
Discovery comes first. The design follows your workloads, compliance drivers, and failure domains, so each tenant gets a design of its own.
Who does the build?
A senior architect leads. Engineers execute. Documentation is part of every phase so operators inherit more than a workshop deck.
Is the design lab-validated or just a slide deck?
Staged delivery has defined success criteria. Where risk warrants it, patterns are proven before they touch production. The deliverable is working architecture.
What happens at handoff after consulting?
Ongoing operations can move to a team that already knows the estate, including Arrow Managed Cloud / Managed Cloud when you want the same names on the floor after go-live.
Is security an extra on Cloud Consulting?
No. Security review is standard scope on every cloud engagement, designed into the landing zone and build before cutover.