AWS Migration Services for Enterprise: How to Choose Partners, Tools, and Programs When Governance Is Non-Negotiable

A governed enterprise AWS migration should combine four distinct layers: AWS-native programs and tools such as MAP, MGN, DMS, Control Tower, and Landing Zone Accelerator; a delivery partner selected according to portfolio size and complexity; an independent compliance assessor for required attestations; and a day-2 internal developer platform. The guidance recommends global integrators for very large, complex estates involving mainframes, SAP, and organizational change, while Migration and Modernization Competency partners may better suit mid-sized portfolios, and AWS Professional Services is most useful for establishing a landing zone rather than managing every migration wave. Governance must be codified before workloads move through multi-account structures, preventive and detective controls, encryption, identity separation, infrastructure as code, audit evidence, and explicit customer accountability under AWS’s shared-responsibility model. Migration planning should classify applications using the AWS 7 Rs, favoring retirement, rehosting, and selective replatforming over costly universal refactoring, then proceed through assessment, a controlled pilot, and dependency-mapped waves. The piece warns that programs often falter after migration when partners leave without a self-service operating model, leading to ticket-driven deployments, cloud waste, control drift, and unmanaged Kubernetes upgrades. It positions Qovery as a bring-your-own-cloud internal developer platform that provides standardized deployments, preview environments, RBAC, non-production auto-stop, and cluster management, while emphasizing that it does not replace migration specialists or independent auditors. RFPs should demand tangible governance artifacts, compliance traceability, realistic wave plans, clear ownership for day-2 operations and upgrades, documented exit arrangements, and separate pricing for software and professional services.

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