When two organizations merge, overlapping cloud platforms create immediate cost duplication and long-term architectural complexity. RLM maps both cloud footprints, quantifies the overlap, and designs the consolidation roadmap that eliminates waste while preserving business continuity.
RLM provides independent, vendor-neutral advisory that gives deal teams and integration leaders the technology clarity they need to make informed decisions and execute with confidence.
We catalog every cloud resource across both entities — AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, GCP projects, and private cloud environments — building a unified view of compute, storage, networking, and managed service consumption that reveals true platform overlap.
We identify duplicate workloads running on different platforms, overlapping SaaS integrations, and conflicting architectural patterns — quantifying the cost of maintaining parallel environments versus the effort required to consolidate.
We design the target cloud architecture and build a phased consolidation plan — which workloads move, which platforms survive, and what sequence minimizes risk while accelerating savings realization.
We model the financial impact of each consolidation scenario — reserved instance transfers, licensing implications, egress costs, and the break-even timeline for migration investments versus ongoing duplication costs.
We design the post-merger cloud governance framework — account structures, IAM policies, tagging standards, and cost allocation models that bring both organizations under a single operational model.
We provide advisory support through migration execution — workload migration sequencing, data transfer strategies, application dependency mapping, and the controlled decommissioning of redundant cloud resources.
Start with a no-cost cloud overlap assessment — we'll map both environments, quantify the duplication, and build the consolidation roadmap.
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