By Editorial Team · 30 September 2026
Cloud migrations rarely fail because of the target platform. They fail because of surprises: an undocumented dependency, an undersized database, a cutover with no way back.
Before planning any move, we work through five questions with the client.
1. What do you actually run? A reliable inventory of servers, applications and data stores is the foundation of every plan.
2. What talks to what? Dependency mapping shows which systems must move together and which can wait.
3. What does downtime cost? The answer sets the migration method, from a weekend cutover to continuous replication.
4. How will we know it worked? Define validation checks for data and function in advance.
5. How do we go back? A rehearsed rollback plan turns a risky window into a routine one.
Answering these early makes the rest of the project calmer, cheaper and faster.
