Cloud migrations made easy: a guide to migrating from AWS to Google Cloud

More and more customers deploy their workloads on Google Cloud. But what if your workloads are sitting in another cloud? Planning, designing, and implementing a migration of your workloads, data, and processes is not an easy task. It gets even harder if you have to meet requirements that have an impact on the migration, such as avoiding downtime (also known as a zero-downtime migration). Moreover, some migrations require a certain amount of refactoring, for example, adapting your workloads to a new environment. This opens up a series of challenges, especially if you’re dealing with third-party or legacy software. You might also need to adapt your deployment and operational processes to work with your new environment.

And what if you don’t want to migrate all your workloads? Even if you’re not moving everything to Google Cloud, adopting a multicloud approach is still a migration. Many organizations choose to keep some workloads in their current cloud provider while moving others to Google Cloud. 

Although managing workloads across multiple clouds has its own challenges, particularly when it comes to workload distribution and inter-cloud connectivity, a well-executed multicloud strategy lets you maintain flexibility, avoid vendor lock-in, and improve system resilience.

To help you in your migration journey, we published a series of reference guides about migrating from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Google Cloud. This series aims to help you design, plan, and implement a migration process from AWS to Google Cloud. It can also help decision makers who are evaluating migration opportunities and want to explore what it looks like to migrate. For example, the series includes guides that cover migration journeys, such as:

From AWS compute services to Google Cloud

• Migrate from Amazon EC2 to Compute Engine

• Migrate VMware VMs to your Google Cloud VMware Engine private cloud

• Migrate from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) to Google Kubernetes Engine

• Migrate from AWS Lambda to Cloud Run

From AWS data storage services to Google Cloud

• Migrate from Amazon S3 to Cloud Storage

From AWS database services to Google Cloud

• Migrate from Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora for MySQL to Cloud SQL for MySQL

• Migrate from Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora for PostgreSQL to Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and AlloyDB for PostgreSQL

• Migrate from Amazon RDS for SQL Server to Cloud SQL for SQL Server

From AWS data analytics services to Google Cloud

• Migrate from Amazon RedShift to BigQuery

From AWS integration services to Google Cloud

• Migrate from AWS Step Functions to Workflows

These guides follow the phases of the Google Cloud migration framework (assess, plan, migrate, optimize) in the context of specific AWS to Google Cloud migration use cases.

This approach helps to avoid big-bang, risky migrations, when working on each migration plan task. For details about completing each task of this migration plan, see the AWS to Google Cloud migration guides. 

What’s next

• Learn how to get started with your migration from AWS to Google Cloud today!

• In case you need any help, Google Cloud offers several resources to help you migrate your workloads, data, and processes at scale.

• Need a more visual guide? Download our new migration guide & checklist. 

Ready to get started?

Ready to learn more? Learn more about migrating to Google Cloud and discover how Google Cloud Consulting can help you learn, build, operate and succeed.

^{Acknowledgements: Alex Cârciu, Cloud Solutions Architect, Xiang Shen, Cloud Solutions Architect}