Migrate from AWS to Google Cloud Platform
Move your infrastructure to GCP for better pricing, native Kubernetes, and superior data analytics — without downtime.
Migration: AWS to GCP
From Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud Platform
Why Migrate
- Cost Optimization: GCP's sustained use discounts and committed use pricing often reduce compute costs 20-40% compared to equivalent AWS configurations.
- Kubernetes Leadership: Google invented Kubernetes. GKE is the most mature managed Kubernetes service with autopilot, auto-scaling, and seamless integration.
- Data & AI: BigQuery, Vertex AI, and Dataflow provide best-in-class data analytics and ML infrastructure that AWS struggles to match.
Migration Roadmap
- Assessment & Planning (2–3 weeks): Inventory all AWS services, map to GCP equivalents, estimate costs, and design the target architecture.
- AWS service inventory
- GCP architecture design
- Cost comparison analysis
- Migration sequence plan
- Infrastructure Migration (4–8 weeks): Provision GCP infrastructure, migrate databases, transfer storage, and configure networking.
- GCP infrastructure (Terraform)
- Migrated databases
- Network configuration
- CI/CD pipeline updates
- Validation & Cutover (2–3 weeks): Run parallel workloads, validate performance parity, execute DNS cutover, and decommission AWS resources.
- Performance benchmark report
- DNS cutover execution
- AWS decommission plan
Risks & Mitigation
- AWS-specific services (Lambda, DynamoDB) have different GCP equivalents: We map each AWS service to its GCP counterpart (Cloud Functions, Firestore) and refactor code for API differences during migration.
- Data transfer costs and duration for large datasets: We use Google Transfer Service for large datasets and schedule transfers during off-peak hours to minimize costs and business impact.
Estimated Scope
Hours: 200–400 | Cost: $400–$800 | Timeline: 8–14 weeks
Frequently Asked Questions
- How do AWS services map to GCP?
- EC2 maps to Compute Engine, S3 to Cloud Storage, RDS to Cloud SQL, Lambda to Cloud Functions, and DynamoDB to Firestore. We handle all service-specific translations.
- Will there be downtime?
- We design for zero-downtime migration using DNS-based cutover, database replication, and parallel running. Most applications have less than 5 minutes of read-only time.
- Can you handle multi-region deployments?
- Yes. GCP's global network with premium tier networking makes multi-region deployments straightforward. We design for the same or better availability than your AWS setup.