Google Cloud Foundations & Migration Services
The right setup for everything you build next
A secure, governed Google Cloud environment is the thing everything else depends on, and it is considerably cheaper to get right at the start than to unpick two years later. We build landing zones, assess environments that already exist, and set the governance that keeps them predictable.
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- 20+ years on Google Cloud
- Google Cloud Premier Partner
- 50+ certifications
- ISO 27001:2022
How environments drift
Very few cloud environments were designed in one sitting. Most grew a project at a time, under deadline, and the structure that resulted is the accumulation of a hundred reasonable decisions nobody wrote down.
The environment grew by accident
Projects were created when someone needed one, permissions granted case by case, networking arranged around whatever was urgent. Each decision made sense at the time, but the problem is how they accumulate.
Nobody can explain the bill
Spend rises steadily and no single person can say which workload is responsible. By the time it becomes visible enough to raise, it has usually been growing for several quarters.
Security was going to be phase two
Access was opened up to get something shipped, on the understanding that it would be tightened later. Later tends to arrive as an audit, or as a question from a customer's procurement team.
From improvised to governed
A foundation is infrastructure, but it is mostly a set of decisions about identity, networking, cost and policy that everything built afterwards inherits. Getting those right early is what makes the next two years predictable.
Before
- Projects and permissions created ad hoc
- Policy applied differently in every team
- Configuration changes made by hand, undocumented
- Spend rising without a named owner
- Every new use case rebuilding the same groundwork
After
- A secure, compliant landing zone in days rather than months
- Consistent policy across every project and team
- Infrastructure as code, so a change can be reviewed and reversed
- Structured monitoring and controls that catch overspend early
- A framework the next analytics, AI or integration project can build on
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The same argument in a few minutes: how a Google Cloud landing zone gives you a secure, scalable foundation from day one, and where infrastructure as code fits into it.
Twenty years on one platform
We have worked exclusively on Google Cloud since 2006, which is long enough to have inherited a fair number of environments that were set up in a hurry. Most of the decisions in the way we design a landing zone exist because of something that went wrong in one of them.
Landing zones follow Google Cloud's Enterprise Foundations Blueprint rather than a house pattern, so what we leave behind is something another partner or your own team can pick up without translation.
20+
Years building on Google Cloud, since before most of it had a name
50+
Google Cloud certifications across the team
Premier
Google Cloud Premier Partner, with specialisations in data and infrastructure
Foundation work we build
Four ways in, depending on whether you are starting from nothing, inheriting something, or trying to work out what to do next. Most engagements start with one and pick up the others as the picture clarifies.
A secure, scalable and compliant Google Cloud architecture aligned with Google's own best practice, with identity, access, networking and monitoring integrated from the start rather than retrofitted.
Organisation & policy
A dedicated Google Cloud organisation with security policies applied consistently, not project by project.
Identity, access & networking
Shared networking through a VPC host project, with an access model somebody can still explain in a year.
Infrastructure as code
Terraform and Git, with CI/CD pipelines that validate a change before it reaches the environment.
Data residency & controls
EU data regulations and access controls designed in, rather than added once someone asks the question.
Google Cloud readiness assessment
A review of what already exists: where the risks and misconfigurations are, what they would cost to leave, and what to do about them first. You get a written report with recommendations you can act on without us.
Configuration & risk review
Where the environment diverges from good practice, and which of those divergences actually matter.
Security posture
Access, monitoring and alerting assessed against how the environment is genuinely used.
Platform audit
A structured audit of a platform you built yourself, sorted into what must change and what would be nice to.
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Google Cloud migration
Plan and execute your move to Google Cloud with minimal disruption: workload assessment, migration roadmap, and a secure landing environment from day one.
Data strategy & governance
Defining or refining the data architecture and the governance around it, so that technology decisions follow business objectives rather than the other way round.
Data architecture
How data lands, moves and is organised, decided once and documented well enough to hold.
Governance policy
Quality, security and compliance policies that people can follow, rather than a document nobody opens.
Ownership model
Who owns which dataset, and who to ask when it looks wrong. Usually the cheapest fix on the list.
For when the direction is not settled yet. A structured session that defines the product vision, aligns the people who have to agree, and breaks the work into epics and user stories.
Vision & alignment
Getting the stakeholders who will have to agree later to disagree productively now.
Structured backlog
Features broken into epics and user stories, prioritised against what the business actually needs first.
Sprint-ready plan
Something your team can start on, whether or not we are the ones who build it.
Foundations we have already built
Two engagements: one building a foundation from nothing, one assessing a platform that already existed.
Povag · business furniture
From no infrastructure to a working cloud environment
Povag's CEO wanted a digital foundation the business could grow on. We set up a dedicated Google Cloud organisation with security policies, a VPC host project for shared networking, and separate zones for landing, processing and organising data, all defined in Terraform and Git with CI/CD validation and Cloud Composer for workflow automation. Configuration changes that used to take weeks now deploy in days.
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Consumer products · global
Auditing a customer data platform built in-house
A global personal care and health technology company had built its own CDP and wanted to know what it was missing before committing further. We audited collection, unification, predictive analytics, personalisation and activation against their actual business requirements, then sorted the findings into must-have and nice-to-have: security posture, CI/CD, monitoring and alerting, data and metadata management, data quality and MLOps in the first group.
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Things worth asking first
We already have a Google Cloud environment. Is a landing zone still relevant?
Often yes, though not always as a rebuild. Where an environment grew organically, the usual route is an assessment first: it establishes what is worth keeping, what needs restructuring, and whether the cost of changing it is justified by what you plan to build next. Sometimes the answer is that it is fine as it is.
Do we need to know our data strategy before we start?
No, and expecting to is one of the more common reasons foundation work stalls. A discovery workshop exists precisely for the point where the direction is not settled, and the landing zone can be designed to keep options open rather than assuming a strategy that has not been agreed.
Who owns the environment afterwards?
You do. It sits in your Google Cloud organisation, defined in Terraform in your own repository, documented well enough for your team to maintain. Plenty of clients keep us on afterwards, but that should be because it suits them rather than because the build made it necessary.
How do you handle EU data residency and compliance?
Data residency and access controls are part of the landing zone design rather than something applied afterwards. We are ISO 27001:2022 certified, and for regulated clients we work to whatever additional framework applies.
Will this lock us into working with you?
It should not, and we build so that it does not. Landing zones follow Google Cloud's Enterprise Foundations Blueprint rather than a Crystalloids house pattern, which means another partner or your own engineers can read what is there without needing us to explain it.
Next step
Want a clear read on the environment you already have?
Whether you are starting from nothing or inherited something that has been growing for years, we are happy to work through where it stands and what it would take to make it predictable.