Migration risk usually comes from unknown dependencies, unclear ownership, incomplete nonfunctional requirements, and weak cutover planning—not from copying compute resources into AWS.
Inventory applications and dependencies
Map services, data stores, integrations, DNS, certificates, identity, scheduled work, network paths, owners, criticality, and unsupported components.
Prepare the AWS foundation
Define accounts, identity, networking, logging, security controls, backups, observability, budgets, deployment, and access before production workloads arrive.
Choose a migration strategy per workload
Rehost, replatform, refactor, retain, retire, or replace based on business value, risk, time, technical debt, and operating goals.
Test cutover and rollback
Validate data consistency, performance, security, monitoring, recovery, DNS, communications, rollback triggers, ownership, and the post-cutover stabilization period.
Before acting, confirm the owner, evidence, production risk, expected outcome, and validation method for each recommendation.