How to Migrate to AWS, GCP, or Azure Without a 12-Month Platform Project: 9 Vendors Compared

Cloud migration projects can reduce engineering overhead by separating infrastructure provisioning and governance from day-to-day application delivery, using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Pulumi with governance platforms like Spacelift, Cycloid, or HCP Terraform, alongside an internal developer platform for deployments and environments. The proposed approach recommends establishing cloud accounts, networking, IAM, Kubernetes, databases, and observability in two to four weeks, piloting one non-critical service, then migrating additional services in waves while treating stateful data, compliance, and licensing as longer-running work. It argues that lift-and-shift is suitable mainly for short-lived workloads, while replatforming frequently updated services onto Kubernetes can lower long-term operating costs. Effective governance is described as requiring pre-apply policy enforcement, environment-level RBAC, exportable audit records, infrastructure drift detection, cost attribution, and preferably workloads hosted in the customer’s own cloud account. The vendor comparison distinguishes IaC engines, IaC governance products, modernization consultancies, cloud-provider migration programs, multi-cloud brokerage tools, and internal developer platforms; it positions Qovery as a BYOC application-delivery platform rather than a policy-as-code or large-scale IaC governance tool.

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