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Digital Transformation & Cloud Migration Services

The multi-year consulting business built around moving companies off decades-old computer systems

IT Software & Services·intermediate·1 min read·Updated July 2026
Moving enterprise systems from on-premise/legacy to cloud platforms
Work type

Imagine a large global bank or manufacturer still running core business systems on decades-old mainframe computers, technology that works but is genuinely expensive to maintain, difficult to find skilled staff for, and increasingly incompatible with modern cloud-based tools and AI capabilities. Digital transformation and cloud migration services exist specifically to help these companies modernise, moving legacy systems onto modern cloud platforms like AWS, Azure and Google Cloud without disrupting the business operations that depend on them.

This work represents genuinely complex, multi-year consulting engagements, not simple technical upgrades, migrating a decades-old core banking or manufacturing system to the cloud requires deep understanding of both the legacy system's quirks and the target cloud architecture, careful risk management to avoid disrupting live business operations, and often genuine business process redesign alongside the pure technology migration.

Indian IT services firms, covered throughout this page, have built substantial cloud migration and digital transformation practices specifically as certified partners of the major cloud providers, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, giving them access to the latest platform capabilities and joint go-to-market relationships that individual client engagements alone wouldn't provide.

This work connects directly to the GenAI service delivery shift covered elsewhere on this site, a company's cloud migration is often the necessary first step before it can actually deploy modern AI capabilities at scale, meaning cloud migration demand and AI implementation demand increasingly move together, clients modernising their infrastructure specifically to enable the AI capabilities that are simultaneously disrupting the traditional services delivery model helping them get there.

Digital TransformationCloud MigrationLegacy System Modernisation