Corban Global / Capabilities / Cloud Engineering
01 · Cloud Engineering

Modernize with auditable confidence.

We design secure-by-default landing zones, migrate regulated workloads without downtime windows, and operate the result to measurable SLAs — so your cloud is a finance-ready capability, not a monthly invoice surprise.

AWS Premier Azure Expert MSP Google Cloud Partner FinOps Foundation CIS · NIST CSF
Cloud practice · live estate
FY25 Q3
Workloads migrated8,420
Avg. year-1 savings42%
Post-cut-over SLA99.99%
Active landing zones136
Audit findings, last 12 mo0
What's inside

Six interlocking capabilities, one accountable team.

Every Cloud Engineering engagement combines the capabilities below. No "design now, figure out ops later" — the people who scope your landing zone stay with you through steady-state.

C·01

Landing zones

Secure, multi-account foundations aligned to CIS and NIST CSF — org structure, guardrails, network, identity.

  • Control Tower / Azure Landing Zone / GCP Org
  • IAM, SCPs, tag policies, break-glass
  • Network hubs, transit, egress inspection
C·02

Migration factory

Wave-based migration of legacy estates using assess → mobilize → migrate → modernize. Zero planned downtime.

  • 6R strategy per workload, audited
  • Block-level & DB replication cut-overs
  • Parallel run + automated rollback
C·03

FinOps & cost controls

Showback, anomaly detection and rate-plan optimization from day one — not a retrospective fire drill.

  • Unit economics per service / tenant
  • Commit & savings-plan management
  • Cost guardrails in the CI pipeline
C·04

Continuous compliance

Evidence collection and control testing automated across the estate. Your audits become a report, not a project.

  • SOX, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, FedRAMP
  • Policy-as-code in OPA / Sentinel
  • Control drift detection, real-time
C·05

Platform engineering

An internal developer platform — golden paths, templates, policy — so product teams ship 3–5× faster without breaking the bank.

  • Backstage / Port / custom portal
  • Templated IaC modules & golden pipelines
  • Self-service within guardrails
C·06

Reliability & operations

We run what we build. SRE practices, incident command and on-call rotations you can optionally co-manage.

  • SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems
  • Tiered 24/7 response with named engineers
  • Chaos drills + DR test cadence
How we engage

A four-phase playbook, repeatable across 140+ engagements.

Every cloud program runs on the same spine. Fixed-outcome pricing, SLA-backed commitments, and senior engineers on the call from day one.

Phase 01 · 2–3 wk

Discover

Application portfolio analysis, regulatory mapping, and an honest "what should never move" list. We read your architecture before proposing a destination.

Deliverable · Portfolio assessment + risk register
Phase 02 · 3–4 wk

Design

Landing zone, network, identity, data residency and wave plan. Reviewed by your security, finance and audit leads before a single workload moves.

Deliverable · Target state + migration plan
Phase 03 · 8–12 wk

Migrate

Parallel-run cut-overs wave by wave, with automated rollback and a named incident commander on every window. Typical: 8–14 weeks end-to-end.

Deliverable · Workloads live, evidence in hand
Phase 04 · continuous

Operate

Steady-state SRE, FinOps and compliance with tiered SLAs. Fully managed or co-managed — your team stays in the cockpit if you want to.

Deliverable · 24/7 ops + monthly scorecard
By the numbers

Outcomes our clients take to the board.

Results are pooled across Fortune 500 and publicly-traded enterprise cloud engagements delivered since 2019.

8,420
Workloads migrated
Across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud, spanning VMs, databases and container workloads.
42%
Average year-one savings
Versus baseline TCO at engagement start, net of Corban Global fees.
99.99%
Post-migration SLA
Achieved across 60+ managed estates on a trailing-12-month rolling basis.
0
Material audit findings
In SOX, PCI DSS and SOC 2 examinations against Corban Global managed estates since 2021.
Technology

Opinionated, but platform-agnostic.

We pick stacks based on your regulatory posture, operating model and data gravity — not vendor quotas. Below are the technologies our engineers run week in, week out.

Hyperscalers
AWS Azure Google Cloud Oracle Cloud VMware Cloud
Infra as code
Terraform OpenTofu Pulumi CloudFormation Bicep Crossplane
Platform
Kubernetes EKS / AKS / GKE Istio Argo CD Backstage Nomad
Observability & FinOps
Datadog Grafana Prometheus Splunk CloudHealth Vantage
Featured engagement

A Fortune 500 logistics operator — 140 workloads, zero downtime.

A publicly-traded logistics operator needed to exit three datacenters inside a fiscal year — without a single customer-impacting outage.

Fortune 500 · logistics · publicly traded
"Corban's engineers architected, migrated and then operated our cloud — one phone number, four quarters of zero-surprise audits."
SVP Infrastructure Global logistics — $18B revenue
CASE 04 · Cloud migration · 14 weeks

From 140 bare-metal workloads to a fully audit-ready multi-cloud estate.

We designed a secure landing zone, migrated workloads in three waves, and handed over to a co-managed operating team with continuous SOX and PCI monitoring.

14wk
Total migration
0
Unplanned downtime
47%
Year-one savings
Frequently asked

Answers most CIOs and auditors want before we start.

Do you work with our existing cloud provider relationships? +

Yes. We are AWS, Azure and Google Cloud premier-tier partners, but your commercial relationship stays yours. We add a delivery and operations layer on top — and will happily defer hyperscaler choice to the workload.

How do you price cloud engagements? +

Fixed-outcome for the migration program, consumption-based for managed operations with tiered SLAs. Time-and-materials is available but rarely chosen — our clients prefer the commitment.

What does a typical engagement team look like? +

A named partner, one principal architect, 2–4 senior engineers and a program lead. Delivery hubs in DC, Dublin, São Paulo and Singapore mean we staff in-region and on-shift for regulated industries.

Can we co-manage steady-state after cut-over? +

Absolutely — co-managed is the most common model. Your team retains cockpit control and strategic decisions; we take overnight coverage, patching, FinOps and compliance evidence.

How do you handle SOX, PCI and HIPAA evidence? +

Policy-as-code, automated collection, and a real-time control drift dashboard shared with your GRC team. Material audit findings against Corban-managed estates have been zero since 2021.

What happens if a wave goes wrong? +

Automated rollback is built into every cut-over window. A named incident commander is on the call, with a written criteria set for aborting and rolling back. We have rolled back exactly twice in the last three years — both with zero customer impact.

Adjacent practices

The practices we'll often pair with Cloud Engineering.

Cloud rarely moves alone. Most enterprise programs involve at least one of the below — staffed by the same senior team.

Start a conversation

Let's size your cloud program — before the RFP.

Share a brief, a current-state diagram, or just the fiscal deadline. A senior partner responds within one business day with a calibrated engagement shape.

What you'll get back
  • Calibrated engagement shape + fixed-outcome pricing band
  • Named principal architect on the follow-up call
  • Three comparable case references on request
  • NDA, MSA and security packet on day one