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AI-MSL Use Case · Cloud & Infrastructure Evolution

Evolve Your Cloud Platform Without the Fragility

Cloud & Infrastructure Evolution modernizes your infrastructure — Kubernetes adoption, cloud migration and re-architecture, platform engineering, and multi-cloud strategy — with the code transformation executed under the governed AI-MSL lifecycle.

Trusted by teams running production software

For platforms where infrastructure limits what software can become

Infrastructure decisions made years ago — VM sprawl, self-managed clusters, lifted-and-shifted workloads — quietly tax every release: rising costs, fragile deployments, and platform work that competes with the roadmap.

Cloud & Infrastructure Evolution defines the target platform; AI-MSL provides governed lifecycle execution for the cloud-related code transformation and platform work that gets you there — with cost, security, and operability improvements you can measure.

“Platforms don’t fail in the migration. They fail in year two — when nobody governs how the system evolves on top of them.”
Nick Chase
Nick Chase
Chief AI Officer, CloudGeometry
Co-Chair, LF AI & Data committee
Linux Foundation AI & Data committee

What Cloud & Infrastructure Evolution covers

The areas of work AI-MSL covers — scoped to your system through assessment and executed under continuous lifecycle governance.

Platform engineering

Paved roads for your teams, so shipping doesn’t re-solve infrastructure.

Kubernetes adoption

Containerized workloads adopted with governance, not heroics.

Migration & re-architecture

Workloads migrated and re-architected for cloud-native operations.

Multi-cloud strategy

Deliberate placement across clouds — driven by cost, risk, and capability.

Cost governance

Workload rightsizing and real-time cost visibility, with proactive budget thresholds.

CI/CD & delivery automation

Paved-road pipelines, so shipping doesn't re-solve infrastructure each time.

Observability & SRE

Metrics, logs, traces, and SLOs wired into one coherent view of platform health.

Security & compliance hardening

Configuration, secrets, and policy hardened and validated under governance.

You always have visibility into the platform work that will most improve cost, reliability, and operability — and what it costs before it ships.

Platform evolution compounds. Every governed change enriches AppGraph — so each next workload moves faster, onto a platform that keeps getting cheaper to run.

0+
Services migrated from self-managed Kubernetes to Amazon EKS
20–30%
Infrastructure cost reduction from the EKS migration
Real-time
Cost visibility with OpenCost — by namespace, workload, and department
Proactive
Budget thresholds and alerts replacing month-end surprises

From the Kasasa and major-retailer engagements — published case studies.

Where every engagement begins

Platform Evolution Starts With Understanding Your System

Every AI-MSL engagement begins with a comprehensive system assessment. Using AppGraph and AI-MSL analysis, we evaluate your applications and infrastructure across 20+ dimensions — producing a prioritized report of platform and infrastructure opportunities.

System Assessment

AppGraph

With AI-MSL, modernization is not a one-time assessment — it becomes a continuous discovery process that keeps your technology roadmap current.

The AI-MSL Platform Model

Pay for Changes— Not Headcount

Traditional platform projects need big up-front budgets and long migration plans before any value lands. AI-MSL works differently — every migration, re-architecture, and platform task is a delivery-ready change you can evaluate, prioritize, approve, and measure independently.

AI-MSL · OPERATE RCPT #001

AI-MSL DevCredit coin
1 DevCredit

One Completed Governed Software Change


AI-powered lifecycle execution INCL.
Infrastructure & orchestration INCL.
LLM processing INCL.
Automated testing INCL.
Documentation updates INCL.
Expert supervision INCL.
AI Lifecycle Manager support INCL.

EKS migration
100–250 DC
Containerize a service
40–80 DC
OpenCost setup
30–60 DC
Multi-cloud rollout
150+ DC
Delivery & Governance

Delivered in cycles. Governed by design.

Delivery Cycles

Platform evolution in 2–3 day cycles

Most platform work is decomposed into small, governed cycles — each delivering an independent, validated improvement to infrastructure you keep running.

Cycle 7 steps
Assessment
PRD
Cost & Timeline Estimate
Approval
Development
Validation
DeploymentShip
Governance

Governance built into every change

Platform changes still touch critical systems, customer experiences, and business operations. Every change passes through AI-MSL governance controls before deployment.

Included controls Enforced
Architecture reviewPassed
Security validationPassed
Compliance validationPassed
Automated testingPassed
Change traceabilityPassed
AI Lifecycle Expert supervisionPassed
2–3
Day
cycles
0
Governance
gates

“Teams evolve the platform under their software without sacrificing quality, accountability, or operational control.

Nick Chase Nick Chase · Chief AI Officer, CloudGeometry
Typical Characteristics

What you can count on every cycle

The same shape, every time — predictable, measurable, and prioritized.

Every cycle 5 traits
2–3 day implementation cycles
Fixed DevCredit estimate
Independent business value
Measurable outcomes
Continuous prioritization
Examples

What a cycle looks like in practice

Representative changes — each delivered as one governed cycle.

Cluster spend
prod · 3 namespaces
On budget
$38.4K12%MTD
api$18.2KHealthy
data$12.7KHealthy
web$7.5KRollout

Infrastructure evolves continuously — governed for cost and reliability.

Is Cloud & Infrastructure Evolution right for you?

Every engagement starts with a System Intelligence Assessment — you'll know the fit before you commit.

You're in the right place if:

1Your infrastructure costs rise faster than the value the platform delivers
2Self-managed clusters and VM sprawl consume engineering attention the roadmap needs
3You want structured platform evolution under governance — not a big-bang migration bet
4Cost, security, and operability improvements need to be measurable, not aspirational

Not sure
it's a fit?

Cloud & Infrastructure Evolution is built for the platform under your software. If day-to-day production operations are the bigger burden, Managed Production Operations may be the better entry path; if the application itself needs structural work, see Application Modernization — every service runs on the same governed lifecycle. Or start with the assessment, and it will point you to the right one.

See what the System Intelligence Assessment reveals about your system.

Start with a System Intelligence Assessment. Takes days, not months.

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Business Outcomes

Outcomes you can measure

Platform evolution becomes measurable — across cost, reliability, scalability, security, visibility, and readiness for what's next.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from a typical cloud migration project?

A migration project ends at cutover; your platform doesn’t. Cloud & Infrastructure Evolution defines the target platform, and AI-MSL provides the governed lifecycle that executes the transformation — and keeps evolving the platform after the migration ends.

That’s the difference between a lift and an operating model.

What’s in scope?

Platform engineering, Kubernetes adoption, cloud migration and re-architecture, and multi-cloud strategy — scoped to your environment through assessment, with cost, security, and operability improvements as the working goals.

How do you de-risk the migration itself?

Incrementally and with evidence. AppGraph maps what each workload touches before anything moves, changes run through governed phases with expert gates, and pilot groups validate cost and behavior before full-scale rollout — the same pattern used in the published retailer migration.

Will this actually reduce our infrastructure costs?

Published engagements have: Kasasa’s migration of 200+ services to Amazon EKS cut infrastructure costs by 20–30%, and the retailer’s OpenCost integration delivered real-time visibility with proactive budget alerts. Your numbers are established in the assessment — measured, not promised.

Who does the work — and do I keep ownership?

Delivery is a platform and managed service: AI agents execute lifecycle phases while a dedicated AI Lifecycle Manager supervises execution. You retain full ownership of your infrastructure code, configurations, and all generated assets — with no lock-in.

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