Managed Cloud Services · UK
Managed cloud services that scale with your business, not your invoice
Managed cloud services and managed hosting services in London and the UK. AWS, Azure and multi-cloud, with FinOps, security and 24/7 support. ISO 27001. Microsoft Solutions Partner.
- 20 to 40% modelled run-cost savings vs equivalent on-prem
- Cloud-agnostic: Azure, AWS, GCP and hybrid under one team
- 24/7 proactive monitoring · UK-based engineering
- ISO 27001 controls embedded · DRaaS quarterly-tested
ISO 27001 · MS SOLUTIONS PARTNER · AWS ADVANCED TIER · ESTABLISHED UK MSP
5,000+
Servers under active management
250+
Cloud projects delivered
100+
Estates moved to cloud
100+
UK organisations supported
The reality
When the cloud bill stops feeling like progress.
The three problems we hear at every cloud strategy review. Each one is fixable, and none of them needs a multi-year transformation programme to start solving.
On-prem costs keep climbing
✕
Hardware refresh cycles, data centre charges, and power. Capacity sits idle or runs hot; there's no middle ground. Every expansion is a six-month procurement cycle.
✓
Move what makes sense. Right-size from day one. FinOps embedded.
Migrations slip past deadline
✕
Three departments, three timelines, three cloud platforms. The integrator promised six months; year two is starting. Roll-back plans were a phase-two thing.
✓
Wave-based migration · published cutover · zero production downtime
Multi-cloud talent stays scarce
✕
One person knows Azure, another knows AWS, and nobody touches the GCP workload your data team set up. Senior cloud hires take a quarter; the cloud doesn't wait.
✓
One UK team, three platforms, certified across all of them.
What we deliver
Five Managed Cloud Services. One accountable UK team.
From day-zero landing zones to day-2,000 disaster recovery drills, managed under one SoW by a UK-based team with engineering certifications across Azure and AWS.
AGREED MONTHLY FEE
Cloud Management
24/7 monitoring, patching, FinOps and incident response across your entire cloud estate. Fixed monthly fee and review quarterly cost.
100+ UK ESTATES
Cloud Migrations
Lift-and-shift, replatform or refactor. Wave-based execution so production never goes dark. 100+ UK estates migrated, with RTO/RPO targets written into the SoW.
ISO 27001 · CIS
Cloud Security
CSPM, identity hardening, network segmentation and continuous compliance. Cloud-native controls tuned to ISO 27001, CIS benchmarks and FCA / ICO expectations.
CONTRACTED RTO/RPO
Disaster Recovery as a Service
Replicated workloads, immutable backups, contracted RTO/RPO and quarterly tested failover. DR drills become evidence for auditors and your board.
AWS ADVANCED TIER
AWS Managed Services
AWS Advanced Tier partner. Landing zones, Control Tower, EKS / ECS, Lambda and RDS, managed by a team that holds the certifications and ships the runbooks.
Cloud platforms
Cloud-agnostic. Always right for your business.
Microsoft Solutions Partner · AWS Advanced Tier Partner
We don't sell you the platform we have the most certifications on, we engineer for the one that fits your workload, your regulatory posture and your existing stack. Most UK mid-market estates we run end up hybrid.
Microsoft Azure
Solutions Partner · Azure Infrastructure. Best fit for Microsoft-aligned organisations: M365, AD, SQL Server, Dynamics. Landing zones, AVD, AKS and Sentinel.
Amazon Web Services
AWS Advanced Tier Partner. Best fit for custom apps, data-heavy workloads, global-scale architectures. EKS, ECS, Lambda, RDS and Control Tower.
Hybrid Cloud
Azure Arc · AWS Outposts · on-prem. For regulated workloads that can't yet leave the building. Hybrid management under one pane, governed as if it were one cloud.
How we work
Three phases from baseline to long-term value.
Most cloud engagements measure success on go-live day, then plateau. We engineer ours to deliver value continuously, the assessment finds the savings, the migration lands them, the management phase compounds them quarter on quarter.
01
Weeks 1 to 3
Assess
Cloud assessment. Estate discovery, dependency mapping, FinOps baseline and security posture audit. You get a costed migration plan with modelled run-cost savings before any contract is signed.
- Workload discovery
- FinOps cost model
- Right-platform recommendation
02
Months 1 to 6
Migrate
Wave-based migration so production never goes dark. Landing zones first, then workloads in priority order. Hyper-care for two weeks after each wave, with our service desk on every shift.
- Wave-based · zero downtime
- Landing zones · IaC
- 2-week hyper-care per wave
03
Ongoing
Manage
Round-the-clock monitoring, patching, FinOps and security posture. Quarterly business reviews tied to your KPIs, with a named UK account manager who sits in your QBR and owns the spend curve.
- 24/7 monitoring · UK
- Quarterly FinOps review
- DR drill every quarter
Why Transputec
Why UK businesses choose us for managed cloud services.
Most managed cloud providers are good at one platform and pretend the others don't matter. We've been running production cloud estates since the first Azure region went live in the UK, and our engineering bench holds certifications across all three majors.
01
Cloud-agnostic
Azure, AWS, GCP under one accountable team.
We engineer for the platform that fits your workload, not the one we have the highest margin on. Same delivery director across all three, certified engineers on every one, and a single SoW that covers the lot.
- Azure + AWS + GCP certified
- One delivery director
- Single SoW for all platforms
02
Security embedded
ISO 27001 from landing zone to launch.
CSPM, identity hardening, network segmentation and continuous compliance configured before any workload moves. Audit evidence collected continuously, exported on demand for ISO, ICO and FCA reviews.
- Zero-trust baselines
- Continuous compliance
- Audit evidence on demand
03
24/7 proactive monitoring
5,000+ servers. UK engineers on shift.
Workloads monitored continuously, alerts triaged by humans, patches deployed on schedule. No L1 offshoring, the person who picks up the incident is on UK PAYE under our ISO 27001 controls.
- UK PAYE engineers
- 24/7 SOC monitoring
- ISO 27001 process controls
04
40 years · UK-owned
Independent. London-based. Skin in the game.
Privately held for decades, no PE rollup risk, no offshore restructuring. The team that designs your cloud estate is the team that runs it five years later. Average client tenure: 11 years.
- Privately held for decades
- No PE rollup
- Average tenure 11 years
Case study · public cloud transition
Urbanest: a complete Azure and Microsoft 365 transition across nine London properties.
Urbanest · London student accommodation · 9 properties · LSE, UCL, KCL partner
From legacy MPLS to a managed Azure estate, delivered to a hard deadline with zero service disruption.
Urbanest operates nine student accommodation sites in Zone 1 London for partners including the London School of Economics, UCL and King's College. They needed to retire legacy MPLS connectivity, transition off a previous MSP under a hard contractual deadline, and migrate workloads to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365. Transputec delivered end-to-end infrastructure upgrades, deployed Azure plus Microsoft 365, and handed Urbanest a modern, secure, scalable cloud estate.
"Everyone we have worked with at Transputec, from the beginning of the sales process all the way through to the transitioned services, has shown great skills, professionalism, and the pragmatism that has let us get everything done."
Adam Bradley · IT Director, Urbanest
9
London properties unified on one cloud estate
Azure
Plus Microsoft 365 · end-to-end migration
On time
Hard contractual deadline met
Zero
Service disruption during transition
Insights & Resources
Insights & Market Intelligence
Frequently asked
Answers to what UK leaders ask us most.
What are managed cloud services?
Managed cloud services means outsourcing the day-to-day operation, optimisation and security of your cloud environment, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud or hybrid, to a specialist partner under a fixed-fee contract. A good UK managed cloud provider handles monitoring, patching, cost optimisation (FinOps), security posture, backup, disaster recovery and 24/7 incident response, freeing your team to focus on the workloads that drive the business. Explore our full cloud management service or read our analysis on cloud solutions for hybrid working.
How much does cloud migration cost in the UK?
Cloud migration in the UK is typically priced on a fixed-scope or per-workload basis. A focused mid-market migration (50 to 250 workloads to Azure or AWS) typically lands between £45,000 and £180,000 across 3 to 6 months, with ongoing run-cost savings of 20 to 40% versus equivalent on-prem. We model the savings in your cloud assessment before any contract is signed. See our guide to AWS cost optimisation in the UK for typical FinOps wins, or read the live Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework migration playbook.
What is the difference between cloud management and cloud migration?
Cloud migration is the one-time project of moving workloads from on-prem (or another cloud) into your target platform: lift-and-shift, replatform or refactor. Cloud management is the ongoing service that runs the resulting environment 24/7: monitoring, patching, cost optimisation, security posture and incident response. Most Transputec clients engage us for cloud migration first, then transition straight into managed cloud under the same contract.
What is Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)?
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is a managed offering that replicates your production workloads to a secondary cloud region, with contracted recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO), quarterly failover testing, and immutable backups. Transputec’s DRaaS service covers Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and hybrid estates, with RPOs measured in minutes and verified by quarterly tested failovers. The UK National Cyber Security Centre publishes useful business continuity guidance if you want to benchmark internal targets.
Is AWS or Azure better for UK businesses?
Both. Azure tends to win for organisations heavy on the Microsoft stack (M365, Active Directory, Dynamics, SQL Server) and for regulated UK industries already aligned to Microsoft compliance frameworks. AWS tends to win for organisations building or running custom applications, data-heavy workloads and global-scale architectures. Most UK mid-market estates we manage are hybrid, and as a cloud-agnostic partner we have the certifications and engineering to operate either or both. We compare the two in detail in our AWS vs Azure guide for UK businesses, and you can read the official AWS Well-Architected Framework for design baselines.
How long does a cloud migration take?
A typical mid-market cloud migration runs 3 to 6 months end-to-end: assessment and landing zone in weeks 1 to 3, wave-based workload migration in weeks 4 to 18, then hyper-care and FinOps tuning. We migrate in waves so production never goes dark, and we publish a named cutover plan with RTO/RPO targets before contract signature. See our Azure migration for Incisive Media for a worked example, or our 2026 cloud migration guide for CTOs.
Is the public cloud safe for UK regulated data?
Yes, with correct configuration. The UK’s major cloud platforms (Azure UK South / UK West, AWS London region, Google Cloud London) all hold ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, UK G-Cloud and FCA-aligned assurance. Data residency in the UK is contractually defined by the cloud provider. The variable is HOW you configure identity, network controls, encryption and logging on top, that is where most regulated UK breaches actually happen. We design every UK landing zone against NCSC Cloud Security Principles, with conditional access, customer-managed encryption keys and audit trails enabled by default. Read the NCSC Cloud Security guidance for the baseline, or see our cloud security service for hardening.
Cloud assessment
Get a cloud assessment.
A focused conversation with a Transputec cloud architect. We audit your estate, model the run-cost savings and share a one-page roadmap with the right platform recommendation, even if we don't end up working together.
- Estate and workload discovery
- Modelled run-cost savings (20 to 40% typical)
- Right-platform recommendation · costed roadmap
- Prompt reply · ISO 27001 secure handling