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Cloud Modernisation & Optimisation Accelerator

This is Server Labs’ core framework for driving value post-migration. It focuses on decoupling, tuning, and evolving workloads to be cost-efficient, scalable, and AI/HPC-ready.

Migration is basecamp, not the summit. Moving workloads to AWS secures the foothold: lower capital outlay, stronger resilience, and access to modern services. But migration alone is not enough. Without modernisation, cloud estates remain costly, hard to change, and unable to support the pace of innovation business leaders expect.

The risk is not failure — it is inertia. Applications left as monolithic blocks slow progress. New ideas take months instead of weeks. Costs accumulate through unowned assets and unmanaged sprawl. Security weakens where guardrails are missing. Meanwhile, competitors move faster, embed AI into their services, and adopt new ways of working such as composable architectures and serverless applications.

The Optimisation & Modernisation Accelerator provides the ascent. It is a productised framework, proven across industries, that systematically evolves cloud estates. Using reusable optimisation packs and refactoring blueprints, Server Labs makes modernisation predictable and repeatable. Each pack is codified, automated, and validated — delivering value without the waste of bespoke consulting.

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With the Optimisation & Modernisation Accelerator you achieve:

  • AI and innovation readiness — modern, modular applications that enable AI integration, new components, and safe, rapid change
  • Acceleration of change — faster release cycles and reduced time-to-market for new services
  • Lower risk — unowned assets eliminated, security guardrails applied consistently, compliance assured
  • Significant cost savings — right-sizing, automation, and FinOps practices deliver double-digit percentage reductions
  • Elastic efficiency — serverless and automation allow resources to grow with demand and scale back when not needed, reducing both cost and carbon footprint
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How it works in practice.

Assess & Baseline creates a fact-based view of current costs, risks, and opportunities.

Design & Decision Framework maps workloads to optimisation packs and prioritises by value.

Implement Optimisation Packs applies automation, telemetry, refactoring, and serverless adoption in structured waves.

Validate & Embed measures outcomes, delivers before/after metrics, and hands over modernised runbooks and dashboards to client teams.

This is how cloud delivers its full value. Migration gives you the foothold; optimisation and modernisation are the climb. For executives, it brings measurable savings, reduced risk, and — most importantly — the ability to innovate at speed with confidence.

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The Server Labs provided invaluable support to define and execute a smooth transition to AWS for many of GEL’s services. They take genuine responsibility for successful delivery and are a pleasure to work with.

Genomics England

Pete Sinden

Chief Information Officer at Genomics England

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