Migration

Documentation, guides, and resources on tools and services to help you migrate to Google Cloud.

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Read documentation and Cloud Architecture Center articles about migration products, capabilities, and procedures.
Plan, design, and implement the process of migrating your workloads to Google Cloud.
Plan, design, and implement your migration from AWS to Google Cloud.
Plan, design, and implement your migration from Azure to Google Cloud.
Plan, design, and implement your migration to a Google Cloud VMware Engine platform.
Use Migrate to Containers to modernize traditional applications away from virtual machine (VM) instances and into native containers that run on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) or Cloud Run platform.
Plan and prepare to migrate your workloads and data across Google Cloud regions.
Plan, design, and implement the process of migrating your databases to Google Cloud.

Training, blog articles, and more

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Study migrating a stand-alone PostgreSQL database to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL using a continuous Database Migration Service job and VPC peering for connectivity.
Study migrating a MySQL database from an Amazon RDS instance for MySQL to Cloud SQL for MySQL using a one-time Database Migration Service job and an IP allowlist for connectivity.
Study Google Cloud technologies essential to the Startup Cloud Engineer role, including migration.
Study translating existing Azure knowledge to Google Cloud knowledge, while also preparing for certification.
Study Google Cloud solutions in comparison with Azure.
Study translating existing AWS knowledge to Google Cloud knowledge, while also preparing for certification.
Study Google Cloud solutions in comparison with AWS.

Migration products by use case

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Discover, assess, and plan your migration to Google Cloud.

Discover, assess, and plan your migration to Google Cloud with a unified platform for your end-to-end cloud migration journey.

Migrate your virtual machines (VMs) to Google Cloud, or convert VM-based workloads into containers.

Migrate your VMs from a source environment to Google Cloud.
Modernize traditional applications to run in containers on GKE, GKE Autopilot, or Cloud Run.

Migrate and modernize your mainframe workloads on Google Cloud.

Accelerate your journey end-to-end from your current mainframe setup to resources on Google Cloud.
Simultaneously run workloads on your existing mainframes and on Google Cloud, and compare their behavior to gather data on performance and stability.
Move data located on your mainframe in and out of Cloud Storage and submit BigQuery jobs from mainframe-based batch jobs, defined by job control language (JCL).

Explore related Google Cloud products, guides, and resources for your migration scenarios.

Compare AWS and Azure services to Google Cloud.
Migrate your data to Google Cloud, and let the service streamline networking, manage replication, and provide a unified status of your migration.
Migrate your data warehouse to BigQuery, and let the BigQuery Migration Service handle assessment, planning, SQL translation, data transfer, and validation.
Migrate your Cloud Foundry workloads to Kubernetes with Kf, and let Kf preserve your developer workflows while you take advantage of GKE Enterprise features for governance.
Migrate your VMware virtual machines to Google Cloud VMware Engine, and let VMware HCX handle site pairing, and workload migration.
Move data between object and file storage systems, including from on-premises storage or other cloud providers to Cloud Storage.
A high-capacity storage device that you can use to securely ship your data to a Google upload facility, where it's uploaded to Cloud Storage.