Infrastructure & Cloud

Move to the cloud with confidence or optimize what you already have. We help Gauteng businesses leverage AWS, Azure, and hybrid environments for scalability, resilience, and cost efficiency.

How do you approach cloud and hybrid infrastructure?

We start with a thorough assessment of your current workloads, compliance needs, and business goals.

Then we design and deliver the right architecture: full cloud migration, hybrid connectivity, or optimization of what you already run.

What cloud capabilities do you cover?

We cover strategy, migration, hybrid links, cost control, security, and resilience.

• Cloud Assessment & Strategy: Right-size your move. Understand costs, risks, and benefits before you start.
• Zero-Downtime Migration: Careful planning and execution so your business keeps running.
• Hybrid Cloud: Connect on-prem systems to the cloud securely and efficiently.
• Optimization & Cost Control: Right-size instances, reserved pricing, monitoring, and regular reviews to keep spend under control.
• Security & Compliance: Identity management, encryption, monitoring, and POPIA/GDPR-aligned configurations.
• Disaster Recovery & HA: Design for resilience with automated failover and tested recovery plans.

Why choose African Vanilla for cloud in Gauteng?

You get cloud expertise paired with local Gauteng support and our trusted partner network.

Enterprise cloud capabilities, responsive local service, and transparent pricing in one partnership.

What should you decide before a migration quote?

Whether the workload should move at all. Identity, email and line-of-business apps are the usual cloud candidates. A server that only exists because a desktop app cannot leave the building is not automatically an Azure project.

Read cloud versus on-premises for Johannesburg businesses before you book. It is the decision note. It is not a case study of a named AWS or Azure migration, because we have not published one. Contact us for a quote for a migration. Do not treat “zero downtime” as a promise we add on this page. Cutover risk is part of the written scope.

Microsoft 365, which is the cloud suite most SMEs actually mean, is priced: Business Premium R400 per user per month on Microsoft 365 management. Server care, if the machine stays, is R970 per server per month (basic) or R2,450 per server per month (premium) on the calculator.

What does hybrid look like in the work we have published?

It looks like a local network that still has to run, plus remote access, plus backups that are not only in the rack.

• HDPE Plumbing & Trading: fibre, Reyee Wi-Fi and NetBird VPN so remote staff could reach the branch.
• Midrand warehouse: a site network redesign for a 24-hour floor, not a lift-and-shift to a public cloud.
• Off-site backup: the second copy, at published per-user and per-server rates.

What should you do next?

Book a cloud readiness conversation. Bring what you run today. We will say what should move, what should stay, and what we will not guess a price for.