Cloud migration for telecom, where physics sets part of the architecture
Most cloud migrations are constrained by budget and appetite. Telecom migrations are also constrained by geography, interconnect, and rules about what may leave a jurisdiction — which means the target architecture is decided before the business case is.
What changes here
Cloud Solutions in telecommunications is not the same engagement
Not everything should move, and the shortlist is short
Billing, mediation, and analytics move well. Elements sitting in the signalling path frequently do not, and a migration plan that pretends otherwise stalls at the first latency test. We separate them at assessment rather than at cutover.
Latency budgets are inherited, not chosen
When a workload has a millisecond budget set by an interconnect agreement, region selection and network path stop being cost decisions. We size against the budget that already exists and say plainly where cloud does not fit it.
Migration runs in parallel, because the network does not stop
There is no maintenance window that covers a carrier network. Old and new run together with traffic shifted progressively and a rollback that has been tested rather than described.
The constraints that shape a telecom cloud programme
Telecom carries obligations most industries do not, and several of them constrain infrastructure directly rather than through policy.
- Lawful intercept obligations, which restrict where certain traffic and metadata may be processed
- CPNI handling under FCC rules, which governs who may see customer usage data
- Data residency commitments made in interconnect and roaming agreements
- Latency budgets set by signalling and interconnect, which bound region selection
- Regulatory reporting continuity, which has to survive the migration unbroken
The work itself
Full cloud solutions pageAssessment, landing zone, and target architecture
An inventory of what you run, a dependency map, and a landing zone with accounts, networking, identity, and guardrails set up before the first workload moves.
Migration and modernization in waves
Applications moved in dependency order — rehost where it earns nothing to change, re-architect to managed services and containers where it pays for itself.
Cloud-native application development
Serverless and container workloads, managed databases, queues, and event-driven services built for the platform rather than ported onto it.
FinOps and cost optimization
Tagging, budgets and alerts, rightsizing, savings plans, and idle-resource cleanup — spend attributed to a team and a service, reviewed monthly.
Resilience, backup, and tested recovery
Multi-AZ design, backup policy, and restores actually rehearsed against an agreed RTO and RPO instead of assumed.
Observability and cloud security posture
Metrics, logs, and traces in one place, with IAM least privilege, encryption, and posture checks running continuously rather than at audit time.
Telecommunications questions we get asked
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