Accelerate cloud transformation and infrastructure strategy and design that’s secure, resilient, and built to scale.
Cloud and infrastructure strategy and design
Overview
Hybrid and multi-cloud environments are growing more complex. Keeping up on performance, security, and availability requires more than traditional models. We work with you to rethink how IT gets planned, built and run across network, computing, storage, operations, asset management, and resilience. With tailored roadmaps, platform engineering, and operating models, we help improve uptime, reduce total cost of ownership, and increase agility and support long-term value as your needs evolve.
Market trends
Capabilities
- Tailored cloud strategy refresh and investment-ready business case
- Infrastructure modernization and platform engineering
- Built-in availability and resilience for what’s ahead
- Cloud financial operations (FinOps) and asset management
- IT operations, automation, and common services
- Risk-aware cloud governance and alliance ecosystem
Tailored cloud strategy refresh and investment-ready business case
PwC delivers tailored cloud strategy refresh engagements that align technology investments with business priorities and measurable outcomes. We assess the current cloud and hybrid infrastructure landscape across applications, platforms, operating models, security, and financial management to identify gaps, risks, and modernization opportunities. Our approach combines market benchmarks, workload and platform rationalization, and FinOps-driven cost transparency to define a prioritized transformation roadmap. We translate the strategy into an investment-ready business case that quantifies cost, value, and risk reduction, including TCO modeling, migration sequencing, and operating model impacts. The result is a pragmatic, executive-ready cloud strategy with clear funding requirements, expected returns, and a roadmap aligned to enterprise growth, resilience, and innovation objectives.
Infrastructure modernization and platform engineering
PwC designs, builds, and manages modern infrastructure platforms that enable scalable, secure, and resilient digital operations. We modernize on-premises (e.g., Data Center (DC), colocation facilities, and edge) and cloud environments by engineering standardized platforms for compute, storage, networking, and supporting services. We do this through intense business and technical requirements gathering and validation, collaborative and innovative design development, structured engineering build, and on-ongoing operations and optimization creating self-service, policy-driven environments that improve reliability, accelerate delivery, and support hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.
Built-in availability and resilience for what’s ahead
Highly available and resilient infrastructure is critical to sustaining business operations. PwC helps organizations govern and modernize resilience across cloud and hybrid environments by aligning infrastructure capabilities to business services through business impact analysis and risk-based prioritization. We support end-to-end resilience from strategy, governance, and funding models to architecture, design, build, testing, and operational management. Our approach integrates resilience engineering, disaster recovery, and platform reliability practices to reduce risk, improve recovery outcomes, and ensure infrastructure investments directly support critical business services and customer experience.
Cloud financial operations (FinOps) and asset management
PwC helps organizations establish disciplined cloud financial operations and asset management practices to improve cost transparency, governance, and return on technology investments. We implement FinOps frameworks that integrate financial management, engineering, and operations to provide real-time visibility into cloud consumption, budgeting, and forecasting. Our approach includes governance models, chargeback/show back mechanisms, automated spend analytics, and lifecycle management for cloud, hardware, and software assets. This enables organizations to control costs, optimize resource utilization, and align technology spending with business priorities and measurable outcomes.
IT operations, automation, and common services
High-performing IT operations combine automation, continuous integration, and common services to streamline delivery, reduce manual effort, and improve reliability. We help you design and implement these capabilities to maintain consistent and reliable performance across your hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Risk-aware cloud governance and alliance ecosystem
We work with leading hyperscaler cloud providers and AI-powered compliance tools to help you build secure governance models at scale. Backed by our global network and risk intelligence, we help you navigate identity, access, and compliance management to help you stay ahead as your cloud footprint expands.
Use cases
An energy, oil and gas operator running 24x7 drilling operations faced significant technology debt across six aging data centers and limited cloud capabilities, impacting service availability and slowing application delivery. We delivered a next‑gen hybrid design and build that modernized data center networking and security with zero‑trust controls, integrated colocation sites with Azure, and added automated disaster recovery failover. The program improved performance, scalability, and operational readiness through updated governance and an enhanced operating model.
We helped a merged regional bank define a go-forward data center and resilience strategy to support integration timelines and meet rising regulatory expectations. The assessment compared hosting models and core technologies across both banks, identified consolidation opportunities, and prioritized near-term network and hosting decisions. The result was a phased roadmap to improve DR maturity and introduce hybrid cloud options aligned to the bank’s evolving cloud strategy.
A global biopharmaceutical firm’s hybrid, multi-cloud environment was outpacing financial controls. We built an investment-ready FinOps strategy and operating model, aligning business, finance and technology leaders on how cloud services would be governed and managed at scale. Using multi-cloud spend analytics, automation-enabled guardrails, and executive-ready reporting, the organization gained sharper cost visibility, reduced waste, and reinforced accountable decision-making. This strengthened their cloud foundation, enabling secure and efficient scaling as innovation accelerated.
Insights
Cloud and infrastructure decisions made today shape how resilient and adaptable the business can be tomorrow. But as hybrid and multi-cloud environments grow more complex, getting there takes more than technology—it takes a clear strategy and the right operating model. We help clients design infrastructure that's secure, scalable, and built to evolve.
Sandrine MottinPrincipal and Offering Leader, PwC USCase studies
