Cloud Architecture and Migration for UK Businesses

UK regions, resilience and the public sector

AWS, Azure and Google Cloud all run regions in London, and Azure adds UK West in Cardiff, which allows a UK-only disaster recovery design for organizations that want both copies of their data onshore. Elsewhere, a multi-availability-zone design in London plus backups in a separate account usually gives strong resilience.

Public sector buyers assess cloud services against the NCSC's Cloud Security Principles and often buy through frameworks such as G-Cloud. Most government information sits at the OFFICIAL classification, which standard public cloud can host with the right controls. Some contracts require security-cleared staff; when they do, we say so plainly rather than offering offshore administration.

Security and cost controls we deliver

These controls are delivered as code and documentation, so your auditors and internal IT can see exactly what was built:

• Landing zones with separate accounts or subscriptions for production, staging and shared services
• Sign-in through Microsoft Entra ID or AWS IAM Identity Center with MFA and no shared admin accounts
• Logging into Microsoft Sentinel or the SIEM you already use
• Patching and backup controls that support your Cyber Essentials answers
• Budgets, tagging and rightsizing reviews as part of a FinOps routine
• Infrastructure as code with Terraform or Bicep