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Cloud Migration Checklist

A proven, phase-by-phase framework for migrating your legacy EDW, Data Lake, and ETL pipelines to Cloud faster and with full confidence.

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What Next Pathway's Cloud Migration Checklist covers

A successful Cloud migration requires a structured, phase-by-phase approach across discovery, code translation, validation, and cutover. Next Pathway's Cloud Migration Checklist gives your team a complete roadmap, built on the same automation Next Pathway uses to deliver enterprise migrations end to end.

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Project Planning & Onboarding

This phase focuses on defining migration scope, project roles, onboarding requirements, and success criteria before execution begins. It helps teams identify risks, dependencies, and logistics early to reduce delays and align stakeholders on business objectives.

Code Translation & Migration Requirements

This phase covers the assessment of schemas, SQL code, ETL pipelines, UDFs, job dependencies, and other migration workloads. The checklist helps organizations prioritize migration waves and ensure all required code objects are identified before translation begins.

Testing & Validation

This phase emphasizes creating an end-to-end testing strategy early in the migration project. It includes involving business teams in test case development and using automation to validate workloads before cloud cutover.

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1 Billion+

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160+

Enterprise modernizations completed

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80%

Faster time-to-market for AI-ready infrastructure

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What Industry Analysts Say

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Rob Enderle

ENDERLE GROUP

"Next Pathway is providing a solution that accelerates the migration process, giving organizations a faster route to realizing value from their data."
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Eric Kavanagh

THE BLOOR GROUP

"SHIFT Cloud enables a remarkably swift and robust transition from traditional data warehousing to the cloud."

What a structured cloud migration checklist covers

A successful cloud migration requires a clear plan across assessment, modernization, validation, and deployment.

Discovery and dependency mapping

Every application, database, ETL pipeline, and dependency must be identified before migration begins. Early assessment reduces risk, delays, and hidden complexity during cloud transformation.

Code translation and modernization

Legacy workloads, SQL code, ETL processes, and applications must be converted into optimized cloud-native architectures. Automation accelerates migration timelines and reduces manual effort.

Validation and functional parity

Every migrated workload must be validated to ensure data accuracy, performance, and operational consistency with the legacy environment before production deployment.

Production cutover planning

Cutover requires a defined strategy covering deployment sequencing, rollback planning, resource allocation, and business sign-off to ensure a smooth cloud transition.

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