
Unlock Innovation, Reduce Risk
Many organisations face migration challenges: lengthy timelines, unplanned costs, licence renewals, siloed teams, unexpected downtime, and lost business momentum.
Our Cloud Migration Accelerator addresses these issues head-on by combining automation, expert delivery, and an outcome-driven methodology.
Whether you’re shifting from on-premises, VMware vSphere, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform to AWS, we offer a proven path that delivers speed, cost-control, security, and long-term operational agility.
Addressing Common Hurdles:
Unexpected Downtime
Unplanned Costs
Siloed Teams
Unexpected Downtime
We Are AI Experts
Our Approach
We execute in four key phases, each designed to reduce friction and accelerate value.
1. Discover & Define
Conduct infrastructure assessment, dependency mapping and readiness evaluation. Align stakeholders on business objectives and create a migration roadmap.
2. Plan & Design
Define target AWS architecture, choose migration strategies (re-host, refactor, re-platform), and build infrastructure as code (IaC) templates.
3. Build & Migrate
Automate deployment of migration services. Execute workloads with minimal disruption, using live dashboards and testing suites.
4. Optimise & Hand-Off
Validate performance, apply rightsizing, optimize cost, and hand over operations with training and governance policies.
Key Activities
Comprehensive discovery workshops and readiness assessment
Automated dependency mapping and migration wave planning
Infrastructure-as-Code template development (Terraform/CloudFormation)
Live monitoring and validation dashboards, migration testing suites
Cost optimization strategies, rightsizing, AWS Savings Plans
Disaster-Recovery and business-continuity frameworks
Knowledge transfer, training, and operational hand-off to in-house teams
Deliverables
A bespoke migration roadmap with phases, waves and automation plan
Fully configured AWS landing zone and cloud foundation built on best practices
First wave migrated and validated workloads with automated verification
Dashboard and analytics reporting on migration metrics, cost impact, time-to-value
Post-migration optimisation plan covering FinOps, rightsizing and operations
Enablement materials: documentation, run-books, training sessions, hand-over checklist
Outcomes
Speed
Significant reduction in migration timeline, enabling faster business-value realisation.
Reduced Risk
Fewer migration surprises via dependency mapping, automation and pre-validation.
Cost Efficiency
Lower infrastructure and licence costs, right-sizing, operational savings.
Scalability
An AWS environment built for growth, innovation and agility.
Operational Readiness
Your teams are empowered to manage and evolve the cloud environment independently.
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Why Choose NorthBay?
Built on the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform.
AWS Premier Consulting Partner
Deep alignment with AWS across AI, data, and cloud practices.Proven Framework
Accelerators designed for enterprise scale, repeating success across industries.Outcome-Driven
Focused on business results—not just infrastructure migration.Industry Expertise
Experienced in finance, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, startups and more.
FAQs: Cloud Migration Accelerator
The Cloud Migration Accelerator is a structured, AWS-aligned framework developed by NorthBay Solutions to help enterprises migrate workloads, applications, and databases to AWS faster and with lower risk. It combines automated tools, proven methodologies, and AWS best practices to deliver a secure, cost-optimized, and future-ready cloud environment.
Traditional migration projects are often slow, manual, and prone to disruption. The Cloud Migration Accelerator introduces automation, predefined templates, and industry-validated processes—reducing effort, time, and complexity. It also includes post-migration optimization and enablement, ensuring your teams can manage cloud operations independently.
NorthBay’s accelerator supports VMware environments, on-premises infrastructure, legacy data centers, and multi-cloud workloads. It’s ideal for applications running on Windows, Linux, Oracle, or SQL Server, as well as custom business systems and modern SaaS platforms.
Yes. As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, NorthBay Solutions works closely with AWS to identify funding opportunities such as the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). Eligible customers can receive AWS credits or financial assistance to offset migration costs.
Timelines vary depending on complexity, but most projects range from 8 to 16 weeks for planning, migration, validation, and hand-off. The accelerator’s modular design allows phased migrations—so you can see results early while scaling progressively.
Security and governance are embedded throughout the migration process. NorthBay implements AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices, encryption standards, identity management, logging, and compliance monitoring. Each phase is validated against your organization’s security and compliance requirements.
Our accelerator uses automated replication, pre-migration validation, and staged cut-overs to minimize or eliminate downtime. Business-critical workloads are migrated with near-zero downtime and robust rollback mechanisms.
After migration, NorthBay’s team performs performance optimization, rightsizing, and FinOps reviews to reduce costs and enhance performance. You also receive a detailed hand-off package, training sessions, and ongoing support options for continuous modernization.
Absolutely. NorthBay’s migration framework supports hybrid and multi-cloud topologies, integrating AWS with existing on-premises or other-cloud environments. Our experts design secure network connectivity, consistent monitoring, and governance across all platforms.
You can begin by scheduling a Cloud Migration Readiness Assessment with our AWS specialists. NorthBay Solutions will evaluate your current infrastructure, estimate costs, identify funding options, and create a tailored migration roadmap.
Industries Served
NorthBay Solutions
knows industry-specific solutions
When it comes to cloud needs and solutions, no two industries are alike. That’s why NorthBay takes a robust, tailored approach to every industry project. Whether we provide consultative leadership, a one-time project, or ongoing managed services, we have the experience, skill, and curiosity required to create highly effective, bespoke solutions.





