Cloud migrations that work are 80% planning and 20% execution. The lift-and-shift mistakes are expensive and well-documented.
Classify Workloads
The 6 Rs: Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, Repurchase, Retire, Retain. Each has different cost/value/risk.
Start With The Right Ten Percent
First workload is for learning. Easy enough to succeed, important enough to matter.
Network Architecture First
VPC design, connectivity, DNS. These are expensive to change once populated.
The Long Tail
Migrations always have a long tail of workloads that resist. Budget for 18 months of the last 10%.
Who This Is For
- Infrastructure and platform engineering teams
- SREs responsible for uptime and cost at scale
- Engineering leaders choosing between build and buy
Common Mistakes
- Multi-cloud complexity without a concrete business need
- Ignoring FinOps until the bill becomes a board-level issue
- Treating cloud as a data center rather than a platform
Business Impact
- 25-40% cloud cost reduction with zero performance loss
- Multi-region resilience without multi-cloud tax
- Platform that scales independently of headcount
Frequently Asked Questions
Should we lift and shift?
For time pressure yes. Plan refactor after. Pure lift-and-shift rarely captures cloud value.
What about hybrid cloud?
Legitimate transition state; not a permanent destination for most.
Partner or in-house?
Hybrid works best: consulting for strategy, in-house for ownership.
Why AIM Tech AI
- Custom-built systems, not templates or off-the-shelf wrappers
- AI + backend + cloud + infrastructure expertise in one team
- Built for production scale, not demo-day experiments
- Beverly Hills, California — serving clients worldwide
Build Systems, Not Experiments
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