Moving workloads to the cloud is rarely a lift-and-shift weekend. The teams that do well treat migration as a program: inventory, risk, cost model, security boundaries, and a plan for how engineers will operate the new environment day to day.
This checklist is the distilled version of what we walk through with clients before cutover.
Inventory and dependencies
List applications, data stores, batch jobs, integrations, and who owns them. Map dependencies and classify data before you move anything.
Security and identity
Decide how identities, secrets rotation, and least-privilege IAM work in the target environment.
- Encrypt data in transit and at rest
- Centralized logging and audit trails
- Tabletop exercises before go-live
Cost and FinOps basics
Tag resources from day one. Set budgets and alerts early.
Observability and cutover
Parity in logs, metrics, and traces before cutover. Plan rollback until DNS and replication are proven.
For hands-on migration support, contact the Brixol team.
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