Cloud migration strategy & planning

Our cloud migration strategy & planning makes complex migrations into predictable, risk-free projects that help you reduce downtime, optimize performance, and unlock measurable business value.

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Cloud migration strategy: features & capabilities

Our cloud migration strategy gives a clear roadmap for your business to confidently move workloads to the cloud. DEV IT identifies critical dependencies, evaluates security and compliance gaps, forecasts costs, and prioritizes workloads. This approach ensures smooth transitions, minimizes downtime, and unlocks scalable, business-aligned cloud performance.

Application-specific migration strategy

We define the right migration approach for each application whether to rehost, replatform, refactor, or retire based on business criticality and technical constraints.

Dependency mapping & cutover planning

We map out application dependencies and create cutover, and rollback plans to ensure your migration happens smoothly, without outages or service interruptions.

Phased migration wave design

We break your migration into manageable phases, prioritizing workloads based on risk, complexity, and impact, so the move to the cloud is smooth and stress-free.

Target cloud architecture definition

We design your AWS or azure architecture upfront, so your cloud environment is secure, scalable, and performs optimally from day one.

Security, Compliance & Access Controls

We build identity management, data protection, and compliance right into your migration plan, so security isn’t an afterthought but part of every step.

Cost & Licensing Impact Visibility

We evaluate your cloud costs, software licenses, and operational expenses upfront, so there are no surprises after your migration goes live.

Ops Readiness & Secure Handover

We define monitoring, backup, support, and ownership plans so your IT teams can confidently manage workloads right after migration.

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Our Cloud migration strategy offerings

Our cloud migration strategy services give you a clear, business-focused plan to move your applications and data to AWS or Azure, reducing uncertainty and ensuring a secure, scalable, and predictable cloud journey.

Cloud Migration Strategy Document

Our experts define clear migration objectives, outline the scope and guiding principles to set success metrics, and ensure everything aligns with your business and IT goals.

Application Migration Decision Matrix

Our experts help you decide the best path for each application to move it, modernize it, or retire while highlighting risks and complexity.

Migration Roadmap and Wave Plan

A step-by-step migration plan that organizes workloads, maps of dependencies, and sets clear timelines and milestones for a smooth, hassle-free move to the cloud.

Target Migration Architecture & Platform Design

A migration-ready AWS or Azure architecture designed for your business, covering networking, identity, security, and connectivity for a smooth cloud transition

Cutover, Rollback & Risk Management plans

A carefully planned cutover with rollback options, downtime management, and risk controls to keep your business running smoothly.

Cloud Cost & Licensing Impact assessments

We assess cloud costs, licensing changes, and transitional expenses while identifying opportunities to optimize your cloud spending.

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Why DEV IT

Why choose DEV IT for your cloud migration strategy?

Plan smarter and migrate faster. DEV IT delivers cloud strategies that drive agility, cost efficiency, and business-ready outcomes in the cloud.

In-House Center of Excellence (CoE)

Our internal cloud CoE provides advanced guidance on automation, modern architecture, and cloud-native adoption, giving you innovation, not just compliance.

Custom risk and dependency modeling

We map application interdependencies, operational risks, and compliance challenges uniquely for your environment, reducing downtime and unforeseen issues.

Actionable executive playbooks

We provide concise, decision-ready playbooks for leadership, translating complex technical plans into clear business decisions.

Proven multi-cloud expertise

We design migration strategies that work seamlessly across AWS, Azure, or hybrid environments, giving you flexibility and avoiding vendor lock-in.

Industry-Specific compliance

DEV IT tailor migration strategies to meet industry-specific security, regulatory, and data requirements from PCI DSS and HIPAA to IoT-ready architectures.

Operational readiness & training

We prepare your IT teams with monitoring, runbooks, and cloud operations training so they can manage and optimize workloads immediately post-migration.

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A cloud migration strategy is a detailed plan for moving applications, data, and workloads to the cloud. It reduces risk, controls costs, ensures business continuity, and aligns migration with your business goals.

We​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ develop strategies for AWS, Azure, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments that assist you in selecting the most suitable platform to meet your technical and business ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌needs.

​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌In​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ order to avoid downtime and ensure a smooth as well as a predictable migration, we have scheduled migration waves in phases along with cutover and rollback operations, security controls and compliance ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌adjustment.

Sure.​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌ We offer operational readiness planning, monitoring frameworks, runbooks, and training, which will enable your teams to handle, enhance, and secure the workloads right after the ​‍​‌‍​‍‌​‍​‌‍​‍‌migration.

Clients get a migration roadmap, application decision matrix, target architecture, risk management plan, cost and licensing analysis, and executive-ready playbooks to guide a secure, efficient, and business-aligned migration.