The cloud migration checklist nobody gives you

Every successful migration we've delivered started with the same exercise: writing down what success looks like in numbers — cost, latency, uptime — before touching any workload.

Then come the unglamorous parts: dependency mapping, data gravity analysis, rollback plans and user communications.

Cloud is a financial model as much as a technical one. Right-size early, watch idle spend, and make FinOps someone's job from day one.