Solutions for Cloud Migration: How to Choose the Right Approach in 2026

By the Cycloid Platform Engineering team, practitioners building and operating enterprise IDPs since 2015.   Direct Answer. The main solutions for cloud migration fall into four categories: (1) native cloud tools (AWS Migration Hub, Azure Migrate) for inventory and lift-and-shift, (2) dedicated migration platforms (AWS Application Migration Service, Carbonite, Zerto) for workload replication, (3) IaC-driven frameworks … Read more

Migration Tools for Azure: The Complete 2026 Guide to Tools, Phases, and Governance

TL;DR. Azure migration spans five phases, each with dedicated tooling: discovery (Azure Migrate), assessment (Azure Migrate Assessment for sizing and cost), migration (Azure Site Recovery for VMs, Database Migration Service for databases, Data Box for bulk data), optimisation (Azure Advisor), and governance (Terraform plus an IDP like Cycloid for Day 2 ops). Most teams over-invest in … Read more