Business outcome
Use this capability when the framework shows that availability, access, recovery, security, data movement, or infrastructure risk is interrupting the people and systems required to keep a customer promise.
Services
Cloud & Infrastructure · Cloud Migration · Architecture
Cloud Architecture Design
Design cloud infrastructure that fits your operation, not someone else's template.
Cloud architecture for complex operations must account for application latency, location connectivity, partner interfaces, recovery objectives, data ownership, security, and support capacity. We design the smallest cloud footprint that meets those operating requirements.
Launchpad assesses the operating need and creates the Roadmap. We engineer this capability when the approved plan calls for it.
A strong fit when
- Lift-and-shift migrations that move on-premise performance problems to the cloud without solving them
- Over-provisioned instances burning budget because nobody right-sized them for your actual workloads
- No disaster recovery architecture -- a cloud failure takes out your ERP the same way a server room flood would
- Networking designed for web applications, not for operational systems with real-time data requirements
Why this service exists
Connect the technology decision to the work the manufacturing business must control.
System responsibility
Cloud engineering provides the controlled infrastructure, access, connectivity, security, observability, backup, and recovery that connected business systems require.
Ownership and control
The manufacturer should understand workload dependencies, access, recovery objectives, cost, controls, vendors, and the operating practices required to change or recover the environment.
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The Problem
The cloud design does not reflect the workloads, dependencies, and recovery requirements the business depends on.
Cloud problems begin when workloads move or grow without a clear account of the business dependencies, access, recovery, security, monitoring, ownership, and cost behind them.
What leaders see
Reliability, access, and cost are difficult to explain.
Teams know the infrastructure matters but cannot connect incidents, spending, recovery, or performance to the work it supports.
What is actually happening
The workload has no complete operating model.
Dependencies, controls, recovery objectives, monitoring, and ownership are distributed across tools, vendors, and individual knowledge.
What gets worse
Migration moves the uncertainty instead of resolving it.
The platform changes while weak access, integration, recovery, cost, and support practices remain.
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What changes
Make the operating responsibility visible and governable.
Cloud architecture for complex operations must account for application latency, location connectivity, partner interfaces, recovery objectives, data ownership, security, and support.
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Operating outcome
Design cloud infrastructure that fits your operation, not someone else's template.
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Workloads and controls to protect
business applications, databases and files, identity and access
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Decision and exception path
Which workloads should change, what continuity the business requires, and how security, recovery, access, integration, and cost will be governed.
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Ownership and continuity
Cloud work needs documented workload dependencies, access rules, recovery objectives, security controls, monitoring, cost ownership, and a tested operating model.
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Architecture
Build the service around the business record and decision.
Which workloads should change, what continuity the business requires, and how security, recovery, access, integration, and cost will be governed.
01Source record
02Governed connection
03Validation
04Business system
05Accountable owner
Workloads and controls to protect
business applicationsdatabases and filesidentity and accessintegrations and networksbackup and recovery
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Engineering scope
What Metrotechs engineers for Cloud Architecture Design.
The exact scope follows the approved business objective, source records, dependencies, controls, and delivery sequence.
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Workload Assessment & Sizing
Profile every workload -- CPU, memory, storage IOPS, network throughput, and latency sensitivity. Right-size cloud resources from measured data, not vendor calculators.
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Network Architecture
VPC design, subnet segmentation, VPN or Direct Connect to on-premise systems, and inter-region connectivity. Designed around ERP, WMS, database replication, business applications, and integration workloads.
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High Availability & DR
Multi-AZ deployment, automated failover, backup strategy, and disaster recovery architecture with defined RPO/RTO targets. Your ERP doesn't go down because an availability zone does.
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Hybrid Architecture
When specialist execution or legacy systems must stay on-premise, Metrotechs defines the enterprise data and integration boundary and coordinates connectivity requirements with the responsible specialist vendors.
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Storage Architecture
Select block, object, file, and archive storage according to workload behavior, recovery, retention, access, security, and cost requirements.
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Architecture Documentation
Full architecture documentation -- diagrams, decision records, sizing rationale, and security controls. Your team inherits an architecture they can maintain and evolve, not a mystery.
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Delivery sequence
From operating reality to a solution the business can own.
Discovery & Profiling
Inventory all workloads, measure performance baselines, map dependencies, and document compliance requirements. The architecture is designed from data, not assumptions.
Architecture Design
Design the target architecture -- compute, storage, networking, security, DR, and cost model. Present to stakeholders with alternatives where trade-offs exist.
Proof of Concept
Build the core architecture in a non-production environment. Validate networking, latency, and workload performance before committing to migration.
Architecture Review
Final review against security, compliance, performance, and cost requirements. Lock the architecture before migration begins.
Related services and systems
Continue through the connected operating environment.
Use these connected services and references to understand the records, workflows, and systems surrounding this work.
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FAQ
Questions to answer before implementation begins.
Clear answers for manufacturing leaders evaluating the work, operating responsibility, and delivery path.
Cloud control gives operators clearer ownership over compute, storage, networking, monitoring, security, recovery, and integration paths. ERP on your Cloud is the pattern we evaluate when the business needs governed infrastructure around the operating record.