Case study · Cloud

Cloud modernization for a global logistics network

Orbit’s infrastructure had grown by exception. We rebuilt the landing zone, sequenced migrations and installed the operating habits that keep cloud spend and security visible.

Orbit LogisticsJan 22, 202610 min read

Logistics network and container operations at scale

Client: Orbit Logistics
Industry: Logistics & supply chain
Category: Cloud
Engagement: Cloud modernization
Duration: 22 weeks
Published: Jan 22, 2026

A shared cloud pattern across regions — with security, cost and migration risk finally visible to the same operating model.

Context

Orbit Logistics had grown its cloud estate the way many global operators do: account by account, exception by exception. Identity patterns differed by region. Logging was inconsistent. Network design reflected local history more than shared architecture.

Migration conversations kept stalling because nobody could describe the target clearly. Security and finance each had a partial view. Engineering felt every cutover as unique risk.

The challenge

The company did not need another tool purchase. It needed a coherent landing zone, a sequenced migration plan and an operating model that made the new estate governable.

Without that foundation, every migration would recreate the same chaos in a newer account — with the same opaque cost and security posture.

Approach

How we worked the problem

01
Define the target once
We documented the landing zone, identity baselines and network patterns before moving a single workload — so migration had a destination, not a slogan.
02
Sequence by dependency
Workloads moved by technical and business dependency, not by which stakeholder shouted loudest in steering.
03
Bake in visibility
Logging, cost signals and security baselines were part of the operating model at cutover — not a follow-up project.
04
Install run habits
Runbooks, ownership maps and change practices made the new environment operable for teams who had to live in it every day.

Approach

We established the destination first: shared landing-zone patterns, identity baselines, network standards and observability expectations. Only then did we sequence migrations.

Dependencies drove the order. Shared services moved before dependent applications. High-risk workloads got rehearsal paths. Cutover criteria included security and cost visibility, not just application uptime.

Throughout, we treated operating habits as deliverables. Ownership maps, runbooks and change practices were designed with the teams who would inherit the environment.

What we delivered

Orbit received a repeatable multi-region pattern, a migration sequence tied to real dependencies, and the visibility layers security and finance had been missing.

New environments no longer started from tribal knowledge. Teams could stand up consistent accounts, apply shared controls and operate with a common language for risk and cost.

Outcome

Teams share one cloud pattern. New environments are repeatable. Security and finance can see the same system of record instead of competing narratives.

Migration risk did not disappear — but it became describable, sequenced and operable. That is the difference between modernization as a slogan and modernization as a program.