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Cloud Migration Checklist for Growing Companies

Moving to AWS or Azure is more than “lift and shift.” Use this checklist before you migrate production.

Cloud Migration Checklist for Growing Companies

Before you migrate

Align on goals: cost, reliability, speed of delivery, or compliance—not all at once.

  • Inventory apps, data stores, and hard dependencies.
  • Classify workloads: migrate as-is, refactor, or retire.
  • Define success metrics (latency, uptime, deploy frequency).

During migration

Containerize where it helps, automate with CI/CD, put identity behind Keycloak or cloud IAM, and add monitoring before cutover—not after an outage.

After go-live

Optimize spend, harden security, and schedule disaster-recovery drills. Migration is a phase; cloud operations are the product.

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