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Choose your migration path

  • Simpler Cloud migrations
  • Complex Cloud migrations
  • Data Center upgrades

Fewer than 1,000 users

1-6 apps

Fewer than 100 custom fields

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Start a Cloud migration trial

Claim an extended free Cloud trial for the remainder of your self-managed license, exclusively available to Server and Data Center customers evaluating a Cloud migration.

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Assess your cloud requirements

Prepare for a smooth migration by assessing your company’s cloud needs and desired migration plan. Evaluate your desired migration strategy, the apps and integrations you’ll need in cloud, your scale needs, identity and access management needs, and compliance, security and privacy requirements.

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Read the Cloud migration guide

Follow our step-by-step migration guide to ensure a smooth transition to Cloud. Our guide is broken up into digestible phases and highlights the tools, resources, and support you’ll need at each step.

Read the guide

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Estimate your Cloud costs

Estimate your Atlassian Cloud costs compared to Server and Data Center, and see what operating expenses your team can reduce when you migrate to Cloud.

Learn about Cloud costs

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Decide if you want to involve a Partner

Enlist the help of a trusted Solution Partner to aid your migration to Cloud. Even if you have a simpler migration, consider working with a partner to plan and execute your migration.

Find a partner

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Create a runbook

Use our runbook template to create a step-by-step checklist of what needs to happen when, supporting instructions, who the owner is for each task, and how long each step will take. You can watch our short video on how to use the template.

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Execute your migration

Run through a test migration, then run your production migration and move your users and data over to Cloud. Once your migration is complete, make sure your admins feel equipped to manage Cloud responsibilities.

Prepare to launch

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Watch a Cloud migration demo

In this short video, we'll give you a foundational understanding of what it means to migrate and how you can get started.

1,000+ users

6+ apps

100+ custom fields

Find a Cloud Specialized Partner strongly recommended

Enlist the help of a trusted Partner to aid your migration to Cloud. Because you have a complex migration, we recommend working with a partner to plan and execute your migration.

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If you don’t choose to work with a partner

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Review your compliance and security requirements

Review Atlassian's cloud trust and compliance resources and decide which deployment is right for you now.

Evaluate Cloud data protection

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Start a Cloud migration trial

Claim an extended free Cloud trial for the remainder of your self-managed license, exclusively available to Server and Data Center customers evaluating a Cloud migration.

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Read the Cloud migration guide

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Read the guide

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Estimate your Cloud costs

Reach out to our migration team to estimate your Atlassian Cloud costs compared to Server and Data Center, and see what operating expenses you can reduce when you migrate to Cloud.

Talk to an expert

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Access the Cloud Migration Assistant

Check that the Cloud Migration Assistants for Jira and Confluence are installed for your Atlassian products.

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Audit your apps and integrations

Determine the apps you'll need and identify alternatives, review security requirements for cloud apps, and understand the migration path for your apps.

Assess your apps

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Identity and user migration

Decide on your user migration strategy and consider your options for managing identify and users in Cloud.

Review user management in Cloud

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Decide on your migration strategy

Review our recommended migration strategies and choose the one that works best for your team. The method you choose will depend on your team’s unique needs for migration.

Choose a migration strategy

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Create a runbook

Use our runbook template to create a step-by-step checklist of what needs to happen when, supporting instructions, who the owner is for each task, and how long each step will take. You can watch our short video on how to use the template.

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Execute your migration

Run through a test migration, then run your production migration and move your users and data over to Cloud. Once your migration is complete, make sure your admins feel equipped to manage Cloud responsibilities.

Prepare to launch

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Watch a Cloud migration demo

In this short video, we'll give you a foundational understanding of what it means to migrate and how you can get started.

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Purchase a Data Center subscription

Start your 30-day, fully functional free trial. Create a new trial license to get started with Data Center, or purchase a subscription.

Get started with Data Center

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Update to the latest version of Server

Upgrading to Data Center from an older version of server can be challenging, so we recommend that you first upgrade your products to that latest Long Term Support (LTS) release if you aren’t already on one.

Learn about updating your Server product

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Convert your Server apps to Data Center

If you have any Server apps installed on your instance, this is where you should upgrade to a Data Center-approved version of each app, where available. If you upgrade your Data Center product license before you upgrade your apps, they may stop working.

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Set up

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Upgrade your product license

Simply go to the admin section of your Server product, and enter your new Data Center license key. You can come back and set up clustering later if you need to.

Learn about converting your product to Data Center

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Decide on a deployment configuration

Data Center can be deployed in two different ways: non-clustered or clustered. Both allow you to leverage enterprise features and capabilities, but each option has different considerations.

Learn about Data Center architecture configuration

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FAQs

How do I create a migration plan? ›

Here are seven essential steps to ensure the success of your data migration plans:
  1. Identify Data Format, Location, and Sensitivity.
  2. Plan Project Size and Scope.
  3. Backup All Data.
  4. Assess Staff and Tools.
  5. Execute the Migration Plan.
  6. Test the Final System.
  7. Follow-Up and Maintenance.
Jan 9, 2024

What are the 5 R's of migration? ›

We'll follow the five approaches in Gartner's “5 Rs” cloud migration strategy model—rehost (lift and shift), refactor, replatform, rebuild and replace—with a special focus on the first three approaches.

What are the 7 common migration strategies? ›

These strategies are refactor, replatform, repurchase, rehost, relocate, retain, and retire. For more information, see the 7 Rs in the glossary. After you complete this initial portfolio analysis, you should have an initial plan for how each application will be migrated.

How do I plan an application migration? ›

Application migration best practices
  1. Assess the application and environment. ...
  2. Create a deployment document. ...
  3. Prepare for data migration. ...
  4. Restore and reconfigure. ...
  5. Automate when possible. ...
  6. Create a test plan.

What is the first step in your migration? ›

Unsurprisingly, the first step in migrating data is to assess the data that you'll be migrating. You'll need a thorough understanding of what you're planning to migrate in order to carry out a successful migration. That means understanding things like: The format of the data.

What are the 6 R's of migration strategy? ›

Amazon Web Services (AWS) adopted this model and extended it to the 6 R's: Re-host, Re-platform, Re-factor/Re-architect, Re-purchase, Retire and Retain.

What are the 6 stages of migration? ›

  • Different issues arise and must be addressed at different phases of migration; the same policy frameworks do not necessarily work at each stage.
  • The phases begin with pre-departure activities and proceed through transit; arrival; stay, circulation, temporary or permanent return and sustainable (re)integration.

What are the 4 parts of migration? ›

4 Types of migration
  • 4.1 Labour migration in the EU. Labour migration represents the movement of individuals from one country to another with the purpose of seeking work or responding to recruitment drives in another country. ...
  • 4.2 Forced migration. ...
  • 4.3 International retirement migration (IRM) ...
  • 4.4 Internal migration.

What are the five migration steps? ›

Five-phase migration process
  • Phase 1: Migration preparation and business planning. ...
  • Phase 2: Portfolio discovery and planning. ...
  • Phases 3 and 4: Designing, migrating, and validating applications. ...
  • Phase 5: Modern operating model.

How do you plan to organize your migration and your living? ›

The best way to organize yourself for an international move
  1. Start by researching the destination country.
  2. Use a checklist to help with organization.
  3. Plan your finances.
  4. Get your documents and paperwork organized.
  5. Secure a visa.
  6. Look into healthcare options.
  7. Find the right international moving company.
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What are the 3 main types of migration? ›

What are the types of migration?
  • Internal migration: moving within a state, country, or continent.
  • External migration: moving to a different state, country, or continent.
  • Emigration: leaving one place to move to another.
  • Immigration: moving into a new place.
  • Return migration: moving back to where you came from.

What are the 3 major migration flows? ›

At a global scale people generally migrate from the developing to the developed world. The three largest flows are from Asia to Europe and North America, and from Latin America. More than most other countries, the United States is a land of immigrants.

How to do a migration plan? ›

7 Steps to Include in your Data Migration Plan
  1. Identify the data format, location, and sensitivity. ...
  2. Planning for the size and scope of the project. ...
  3. Backup all data. ...
  4. Assess staff and migration tool. ...
  5. Execution of the data migration plan. ...
  6. Testing of final system. ...
  7. Follow-up and maintenance of data migration plan.

What are the major components of a migration plan? ›

What are the Key Components of a Data Migration Plan?
  • Clear Objectives and Scope Definition.
  • Data Discovery and Profiling.
  • Data Mapping and Transformation.
  • Data Validation and Testing.
  • Migration Strategy and Execution.
  • Data Archiving and Retention.
  • Post-Migration Support and Monitoring.
Mar 18, 2024

What is a post-migration checklist? ›

The post-migration checklist guides you through the actions necessary to ensure a smooth transition to go live. Reaching this stage means you: Understand how the data migration process works.

How do I create an initial migration? ›

Run the Add-Migration InitialCreate command in Package Manager Console. This creates a migration to create the existing schema. Comment out all code in the Up method of the newly created migration. This will allow us to 'apply' the migration to the local database without trying to recreate all the tables etc.

How do I write a cloud migration plan? ›

What Steps Should You Follow To Create the Best Cloud Migration Plan?
  1. Establish a Project Team. ...
  2. Assess Your Current Environment. ...
  3. Create a Migration Roadmap. ...
  4. Implement Security Measures. ...
  5. Audit for Compliance. ...
  6. Execute the Plan. ...
  7. Monitor Progress. ...
  8. Test and Review.
Oct 16, 2023

What is a migration strategy document? ›

A migration plan is a document that describes how to move your solution architecture from one environment to another, such as from development to production, or from on-premises to cloud.

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