A Practical Cloud Migration Checklist for 2026

Cloud migration can deliver cost savings and agility — but only with careful planning. Here's a checklist our architects use on every engagement.

Assessment

Inventory your workloads, dependencies and data. Not everything belongs in the cloud, and a lift-and-shift is rarely optimal.

Architecture

Design for high availability, autoscaling and disaster recovery from day one. Infrastructure as Code makes environments reproducible.

Security & cost

Apply zero-trust networking, encrypt data at rest and in transit, and set up cost budgets and alerts before you migrate.