CLOUD & IT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
CLOUD & IT INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
Avalon moves our systems out of the data center and into an authorized cloud environment on a fixed-price, wave-by-wave plan, cutting what we spend keeping old infrastructure alive and clearing the path to our own ATO without disrupting the mission.
Avalon relocates your applications and data into a modern, government-authorized cloud platform and performs the code remediation, database conversion, and integration work that makes them actually run once they get there.
THE PROBLEM & THE APPROACH
The Challenge
Our Approach
O&M consumes the bulk of the IT budget, and hardware refresh cycles or licensing repricing shocks, the VMware/Broadcom renewal shock is the current archetype, produce sudden, unbudgeted six- and seven-figure bills.
Avalon dispositions every application using the '7 Rs' framework before migrating anything, retiring and repurchasing where that's the right call instead of lifting and shifting technical debt at cloud prices.
Fragile systems with single points of failure and no disaster recovery, running on hardware past end of support, carry outage risk for beneficiary-facing and warfighter-facing services.
Migration executes in controlled waves grouped by dependency and risk, with rehearsed cutover, rollback plans, and a defined hypercare window before operational handoff.
Zero trust architectures, modern logging, and continuous monitoring are difficult or impossible to implement on legacy platforms, and audit findings accumulate against systems that cannot be patched or instrumented.
Security documentation is produced throughout, control-implementation evidence and configuration baselines packaged so your ISSO and assessors can use them directly, not reconstructed after the fact.
The workforce that understands these systems is retiring or has left, and federal workforce reductions in 2025-2026 made people-intensive legacy operations even harder to sustain.
Senior migration engineers do the actual work in fixed-price waves that reward finishing, not staff augmentation that rewards duration.
CORE CAPABILITIES
Automated and interview-based inventory of every application, server, and dependency, assigned one of the '7 Rs' migration strategies and signed off by the agency.
Landing zone validation or build, followed by dependency- and risk-sequenced migration waves with real code remediation.
Rehearsed cutover with rollback plans, functional validation, and security documentation packaged for direct use in your authorization process.
OUR PROCESS
Accounts, network access, security paperwork, and a data call issued across the portfolio. (1-2 weeks)
Inventory, dependency mapping, disposition workshops, and sensitivity classification for every application in scope. (3-6 weeks)
Wave plan, target architecture validation or build, and migration runbook templates. (4-8 weeks, overlaps discovery)
One to three low-risk applications migrated end to end to prove the pattern and calibrate estimates. (4-6 weeks)
Remaining waves executed in sequence with remediation development running in parallel, each with rehearsed cutover and hypercare. (8-24+ weeks, portfolio-dependent)
As-builts, the security evidence package, knowledge transfer, and decommission support for source infrastructure. (2-3 weeks)
WHY AVALON
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Federal Frameworks Addressed
Fixed-Price-Per-Wave, Not Time-and-Materials
Large-integrator migration work is typically staffed as a pyramid billed T&M, which rewards duration. Avalon prices FFP per wave, which rewards finishing, and puts founder-level engineers on the actual work.
Not a staffing quarter. Materially lower blended rates than a large systems integrator, with the same senior engineers scoping and delivering the work.
The same team writes infrastructure-as-code and produces 800-53-mapped control evidence, so your authorization work starts the day migration ends, not months later.
Every application is retired and repurchased before it's migrated, avoiding the lift-and-shift pattern that pays cloud premiums for data-center-shaped infrastructure.
A direct award or HUBZone set-aside advances your agency's small-business goals while cutting procurement lead time.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
Straight answers about cost, risk, and what a migration with Avalon actually looks like.
Talk to Our Team →5
Federal Frameworks Addressed
Sometimes true, when everything is lifted and shifted with no dispositions, no rightsizing, and no governance. That's a delivery failure, not a property of cloud. Our disposition process retires and repurchases before it migrates, and we put both TCO models side by side in the assessment before you commit to a single wave.
The environments we target hold FedRAMP certification and, for DoD, DISA impact-level authorizations, and we map every customer-responsibility control and hand you the evidence. The real risk isn't the cloud platform, it's an undocumented migration, which is exactly what our delivery model prevents.
We size honestly and deliver in waves, telling you in writing how many concurrent waves we can staff. What you get in exchange for a smaller firm is senior engineers actually doing the work, not a bench of first-year staff under a distant architect. If your portfolio genuinely needs a much larger program, we'll say so.
Ask why they haven't already done it, the incumbent operating your infrastructure earns revenue from its continued existence, while a migration firm earns revenue from its retirement. Our fixed-price-per-wave contract aligns payment with decommissioned systems, not billed hours.
No. Avalon migrates the system into a FedRAMP-certified environment and delivers control-implementation evidence mapped to NIST SP 800-53, reducing the documentation lift for your assessment. The independent control assessment and your Authorizing Official's decision remain separate, government-owned steps.
Workload placement follows your data and enterprise environment, not our preference. Everything we build ships as infrastructure-as-code you own, which is the practical form of exit-readiness.
Most stalls trace to three causes: no disposition discipline, no dedicated remediation developers, or agency-side access and testing bottlenecks nobody scheduled. The assessment names which of the three killed the last attempt, and the SOW assigns dates to the government-furnished items so it can't quietly happen again.
Talk to Avalon about scoping an application portfolio assessment and migration plan.