Cloud services, including the honest question of whether to move

Not by itself. Lifting a system unchanged usually costs more, because you are renting capacity sized for a peak that runs all day. Savings come from modernising how the workload runs — scaling down out of hours, using managed services, retiring what nobody uses.

No, and deciding per workload is most of the value in the assessment. Some systems are cheaper where they are, some cannot move for data residency or licensing reasons, and some should be retired rather than migrated anywhere.

Usually, and often substantially. The common causes are consistent: environments nobody switched off, instances sized for a launch-day peak that never recurred, and storage tiers left at the default. Fixing them needs visibility first, which is generally what is missing.

Both are capable of running almost anything you need. The decision usually turns on your existing licensing, what your team already knows, and which managed services you actually intend to use — not on a feature comparison.

The platforms are generally more secure than most on-premise server rooms. Most cloud breaches come from configuration rather than the platform — public storage, over-permissive identity, missing network controls — which is why governance is part of the work rather than an afterthought.

It can usually be kept short with parallel running and a planned switch, though that costs more. For many workloads a scheduled outage is cheaper and safer, and we will tell you which we think applies rather than defaulting to the more expensive option.