The cloud can cut your costs, scale with your business, and make your teams faster—or it can become an expensive, insecure sprawl that lacks control. The difference is expertise. IS&T Consulting Group provides cloud consulting and managed cloud services that help you plan the right cloud strategy, migrate without the drama, secure every workload, and manage costs across most major platforms, including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.
We've been solving complex IT problems for Houston, its surrounding areas, and nationwide since 1997. As an independent, vendor-neutral firm, we recommend what actually fits your goals rather than whatever carries the biggest license margin. Additionally, we can either advise your team or run the entire environment for you, giving your in-house staff more time to focus on essential business goals.
See below for everything we do in the cloud. Explore the area you need, or talk to us about a customized, combined roadmap:
AWS Consulting & Managed Services - Strategy, migration, Well-Architected reviews, security, and 24/7 operations on Amazon Web Services.
Azure Consulting & Managed Services - Azure architecture, landing zones, migration, and managed operations for Microsoft-centric businesses.
Google Cloud (GCP) Consulting - GCP architecture, migration, data, and Kubernetes expertise.
Cloud Migration Services - Assessment-led migration of applications, databases, and infrastructure with minimal downtime.
Cloud Modernization Services - Replatforming and refactoring legacy apps into cloud-native, containerized architectures.
Kubernetes Consulting & Managed Services - Design, migration, and 24/7 management of Kubernetes and container platforms.
Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Consulting - Unified strategy, governance, and connectivity across multiple clouds and on-premises.
Cloud Cost Optimization & FinOps - Right-sizing, commitments, and governance to make your cloud bill predictable.
Choosing the right cloud partner is about finding a provider who meets your organization’s expectations for trust and judgment. IS&T has proven its success across 2,400+ clients and 1,800+ projects in nearly three decades, spanning industries such as healthcare, finance, retail, energy, and technology.
Vendor-neutral - We're not locked to one platform. We recommend AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or a mix based on your unique workloads and budget.
Senior, certified consultants - Real architects design your environment.
Business-first and plain-spoken - We translate cloud decisions into outcomes and costs your leadership can act on.
One accountable partner - Cloud, security, DevOps, networking, staffing, and support all under one roof.
U.S.-based, Houston-headquartered - Responsive support from a team you can reach directly, serving clients nationwide.
Your business should not be limited to a single provider. Our consultants are experienced across the three major cloud platforms and can help you pick the right home for each workload:
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - The broadest service catalog. Ideal for scale, breadth, and mature tooling.
Microsoft Azure - The natural fit for Microsoft-centric environments (Windows Server, SQL Server, Microsoft 365, Entra ID, etc.)
Google Cloud (GCP) - Strong for data, analytics, AI/ML, and Kubernetes-native workloads.
Our consulting engagements meet your organization at any stage of the journey, from “Where do we even start?” to “Help us fix what we've already built.” Typical engagements include cloud strategy and roadmap, architecture design and Well-Architected reviews, migration planning, security and compliance assessments, and cost optimization. Your business will get a clear plan, a fixed scope, and a partner who stays accountable to the outcome.
Building your organization’s cloud is just the beginning. Ongoing cloud management is what truly sets your business up for success. Our managed cloud services give you a team that monitors, patches, backs up, secures, and optimizes your environment 24/7, with clear SLAs and monthly reporting. You will get enterprise-grade operations without having to hire and retain an enterprise-sized, in-house team. With the power of IS&T cloud services backing your organization up, your team can focus on your business instead of managing infrastructure problems along the way.
IS&T’s cloud consultants work across regulated and fast-moving industries, including healthcare, financial services, retail and e-commerce, energy and oil & gas, professional services, and technology and SaaS companies. Where compliance applies, such as HIPAA, PCI DSS, and SOC 2, we implement controls into the environment from day one.
Every engagement follows a proven, low-risk path:
1. Assess - We review your goals, current environment, and workloads before defining your specific scope and success criteria.
2. Design - We architect the target environment for security, reliability, and cost, and present your team with the plan and expected timeline.
3. Migrate Build - We execute in controlled phases with testing and rollback at each step.
4. Optimize - We tune performance, security, and cost against cloud best-practice frameworks.
5. Manage - Optionally, we can operate and continuously improve your environment 24/7.
What's the difference between cloud consulting and managed cloud services?
Cloud consulting is advisory and often on a project-by-project basis. The engagement process includes strategy, architecture, migration, and optimization—steps that get you to the right cloud setup.
Managed cloud services are continuous and ongoing. We operate, monitor, secure, and optimize the cloud environment for you 24/7 after it's built.
Many clients use both, starting with a cloud consulting project and then moving to managed services.
Which cloud platform is best - AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud?
The ideal cloud platform for your organization depends on your applications, existing tools, and goals. Microsoft-centric organizations often opt for Azure. Teams that want the broadest service catalog often choose AWS. Data-, AI-, and Kubernetes-heavy workloads often suit Google Cloud. Many clients even utilize more than one cloud system. Because IS&T is vendor-neutral, we can help you choose objectively and customize a single- or multi-cloud solution that works for your business.
Can you help us reduce our current cloud bill?
Yes. Cloud cost optimization is one of our most requested services. We right-size resources, apply reserved and savings-plan commitments, remove waste, and put tagging and budgets in place, so your business’s costs stay predictable.
Do you only work with businesses in Houston?
No. While IS&T Consulting Group is headquartered in Houston, Texas, we have served clients since 1997 by delivering cloud consulting and managed cloud services to organizations in Houston locally and across the United States remotely.
How do we get started?
Most engagements begin with a short discovery call and an assessment of your current environment and goals. From there, we recommend a personalized next step, which can include a strategy roadmap, a migration plan, a security or cost review, or a managed-services engagement.
Call 713-622-3443 to begin.
Ready to make the cloud work for your business instead of against it? Call IS&T Consulting Group at 713-622-3443 or request a proposal, and we'll map out the right first step.
