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Every stalled migration we've rescued has shipped. The five-gate framework is why.

Migrations finish on infrastructure terms. Workloads moved. Then they fail on business terms because no business value shipped with them. Our five-gate framework (Discovery, Schedule, Migrate, Modernize, Operate) treats both as the contract.

When the framework is on the SOW, the migration finishes when the SOW says it will.
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The Core Insight

Migrations stall in five predictable places. The framework names each one and gates around it.

Discovery comes in half-done. Schedule slips. Migration ships regressions. Modernization never starts. Operate inherits the old practices. The framework gates each one before the next phase opens.

40%
Migrations Stall

Forty percent of enterprise migrations stall before reaching the modernize phase. Workloads move; value doesn't.

Industry data 2025
12mo
Average Overrun

Twelve months is the median overrun on migrations that started without a five-gate framework. The framework is what catches drift early.

Armakuni rescues
100%
Rescues Shipped

Every stalled migration Armakuni has been brought in to rescue has shipped. The framework is what closes the gates.

Armakuni record
The Reframe

A migration plan tells you what to move. The framework tells you when business value can move with it.

Five gates, each with explicit exit criteria. Discovery scopes the right workloads. Schedule includes business milestones, not just lift dates. Migration ships behind canaries. Modernization starts on day one. Operate inherits the practices.

The framework is infrastructure you keep. Discovery artifacts, MAP funding paperwork, canary patterns, runbooks, modernize backlog. Deployed into your AWS Organisations under your IAM, your governance, your audit trail. When the migration ends, your team has the playbook for the next one.

The Five-Gate Framework

Five gates that keep value flowing.|No gate, no advance to the next phase.

The framework is how Armakuni runs migrations and how Armakuni rescues them. Five gates. Each one has explicit exit criteria. Workloads move only when value can move with them.

Map every value stream
Plan to value milestones
Ship behind canary patterns
Modernize starts on day one
Operate inherits the practices
Gate 01 · Discover

Map every value stream

Most discoveries map applications. Armakuni discoveries map value streams. What revenue does this workload support? What customer outcome? What regulator is watching? Workloads without value get retired, not migrated.

Gate 02 · Schedule

Plan to value milestones

Schedule is the contract. Each phase ends with a value milestone, not a workload milestone. "Cutover the trading platform" is a workload event. "Trading desk hits new latency target" is a value event. We schedule the latter.

Gate 03 · Migrate

Ship behind canary patterns

No big-bang cutovers. Every workload migrates behind a canary pattern: traffic shadowing, percentage cutover, automated rollback on observability signal. The framework says no advance until the canary is green.

Gate 04 · Modernize

Modernize starts on day one

Most migrations defer modernization until after the migration. Armakuni modernizes during the migration. Quality gates, observability, AK Way practices land on the workload as it moves. The post-migration modernize phase becomes a refinement, not a rebuild.

Gate 05 · Operate

Operate inherits the practices

The handover is the framework. Runbooks, dashboards, IaC, on-call rotation, post-mortem templates. Optionally a Managed Services retainer continues the practices. Either way, the operate phase doesn't revert to old habits.

What the Framework Uses

Six AWS services do the heavy lifting. Your team learns the ones they didn't already know on the way in.

The framework wires AWS migration primitives you are already paying for into a single governed flow. MAP funding paperwork handled. No new runtime. No new vendor.

AWS MGN
AWS MGN

Application Migration Service for lift-and-shift workloads. Continuous replication, sub-minute cutover.

Lift-and-shift
AWS DMS
AWS DMS

Database Migration Service for heterogeneous and homogeneous database migrations. Continuous replication, schema conversion.

Database migration
AWS Migration Hub
AWS Migration Hub

Single pane of glass across MGN, DMS, Application Discovery. Discovery artifacts and migration progress in one place.

Migration tracking
AWS Schema Conversion Tool
AWS Schema Conversion Tool

Automated schema conversion. Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 to Aurora, RDS, Redshift. Conversion-flag reports for the rest.

Schema conversion
AWS MAP
AWS MAP

Migration Acceleration Program. Co-investment funding handled by Armakuni. CFO sees the co-invest before kickoff.

MAP funding
CloudWatch + X-Ray
CloudWatch + X-Ray

Observability instrumentation lands in week one. Canary patterns reference the same dashboards as production.

Observability
What customers say
Leading Canadian InsurTech SaaS platform
AWS MAP Assess to production
Case study
Amy Zupon, ceo at Leading insurance broker management system provider in Canada
GM and VP, Leading insurance broker management system provider in Canada
Leading insurance broker management system provider in Canada · Dimitrios Argitis

It was very easy to be engaged. I was very impressed because I felt like we were moving forward with very good discussions, very smart people, and a lot of empathy and care. Of course, I'm also putting forward people whose expectations I'm trying to manage and how they see this. So yeah, I would agree, wonderful team for sure.

Marketing automation platform for e-commerce and restaurant brands
Event-driven SMS modernised on AWS
Case study
Wais Asefi, ceo at SMS campaign automation platform for e-commerce and restaurant brands
What shipped
SMS campaign automation platform for e-commerce and restaurant brands · Communications platform

Event-driven SMS campaign automation, MCP integration layer, and AI-powered recommendations migrated onto AWS with the orchestration layer running inside the customer account and a full audit trail across every agent call.

99.99% availability for Fortune 500 partners
Case study
What shipped
CarSaver · Automotive

99.99% system availability achieved across promotional traffic patterns that previously caused outages, so Fortune 500 partner campaigns convert at the rate the marketing spend was sized for and CarSaver can commit to availability commitments in enterprise contracts

A U.S. healthcare technology company delivering clinical data analytics and data-driven insights for providers and hospitals
8-week HIPAA migration, fully funded
Case study
What shipped
A U.S. healthcare technology company delivering clinical data analytics and data-driven insights for providers and hospitals · Healthcare Technology

In eight weeks, A U.S. healthcare technology company delivering clinical data analytics and data-driven insights for providers and hospitals went from depending on a vendor-managed data center to owning and governing its infrastructure on AWS. A migration that had to run across two live AWS accounts without touching clinical data delivery was completed without a single missed pipeline. The analytics stack that ran on expensive proprietary tools is being replaced by one A U.S. healthcare technology company delivering clinical data analytics and data-driven insights for providers and hospitals owns outright.

A U.S. SaaS platform for the AV/IT field services industry
99.9% uptime on Amazon ECS
Case study
What shipped
A U.S. multi-tenant SaaS platform for the AV/IT field services industry · Software

60-80% reduction in task management time across field operations, replacing paper-based capture and re-entry with a workflow that closes jobs at the point of work and pushes data into the platform within seconds

The Payoff · Migration Phase Timeline

Eight months from discovery to operate. The first business outcome ships at week eight.

Median outcomes across recent Migration engagements where the framework was the contract and modernize started on day one.

Week 4
Discovery complete
Value streams mapped, MAP filed
Week 8
First wave migrated
Canary green, rollback tested
Week 16
Modernize visible
Quality gates, observability live on migrated workloads
Month 8
Operate handed over
Framework playbook transferred. Optional retainer continues.
How We Run Migrations

Two engagement shapes.|Pick the one that matches where you are.

Full migration · 6-12 months · MAP eligible

AK Way Migration

Five-gate framework run end-to-end. Armakuni handles Discovery, Schedule, Migrate, Modernize, Operate. MAP funding paperwork included. Modernize starts on day one. Handover lands the framework playbook with your team.

Output: workloads migrated and modernized, plus the framework playbook transferred to your team.

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AK Way Migration: five-gate framework Discovery to Operate

What AK Way Migration delivers

MAP funding handled. Co-investment paperwork filed by Armakuni. CFO sees the co-invest before kickoff.
Modernize on day one. Quality gates, observability, AK Way practices land on workloads as they move.
Framework playbook transferred. Discovery artifacts, canary patterns, runbooks. Your team runs the next migration.
Migration rescue · 8-16 weeks

Migration Rescue

For migrations that have stalled. Armakuni assesses where the framework broke (which gate didn't close), proposes a rescue plan, and runs the missing gates. Every stalled migration we've been brought in to rescue has shipped.

Output: a stalled migration unstuck, with the framework retroactively applied.

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Migration Rescue: diagnose the missing gate and ship the stalled migration

What Migration Rescue delivers

Gate-by-gate diagnosis. We map your migration to the five gates and identify which ones never closed.
Rescue plan, not restart. We don't throw out the work done. We close the missing gates and resume.
Path to operate. Rescues end with the operate handover, same as full migrations. Framework playbook transferred.
Workshops · Map your migration to the framework

Two workshops, half day each.|See where your migration is on the framework.

Migration Discovery Workshop
Migration Discovery Workshop

Half-day workshop where we map your application portfolio to value streams, identify migration shape per workload, and produce a Discovery artifact you can take to your CFO. MAP eligibility assessed.

Half dayFree
HALF DAYFREEDISCOVERY ARTIFACT INCLUDED
Migration Rescue Workshop
Migration Rescue Workshop

Half-day workshop for teams whose migration has stalled. We map your migration to the five gates, identify which ones never closed, and propose a rescue plan. Walk away with a sized rescue engagement.

Half dayFree
HALF DAYFREEFOR STALLED MIGRATIONS
Where the Framework Lands

Migration lands first where workloads have to move on the regulator's calendar and the CFO needs to see business outcomes shipping every quarter.

BFSI
→
Core banking · Payments · Capital markets
BFSI

Thirty-year COBOL cores, monthly regulator cycles, and an AI roadmap the CTO already signed. The orchestration layer keeps every AI action audit-ready for the PRA, FCA, and SEC.

 Healthcare
→
Payers · Providers · Life sciences
Healthcare

PHI cannot leave the account. Guardrails and SCPs keep every Bedrock call inside HIPAA boundaries. Armakuni pods have shipped against claims, scheduling, and EHR-adjacent systems without a single cross-account spill.

 Retail
→
Omnichannel · Supply chain · Marketplaces
Retail

Peak-season refactors where a bad deploy costs a weekend of revenue. Canary gates inside Step Functions hold agents to the same release calendar your SREs already run.

 Manufacturing
→
MES · ERP adjacencies · OT-IT bridges
Manufacturing

Systems where a bad change takes a production line offline. Inspector and Config drift checks run before any Armakuni-deployed agent touches a service that talks to the shop floor.

 Telco
→
BSS · OSS · Network platform
Telco

Billing stacks that cannot go dark. We target the adjacencies first, leave the core for last, and keep the whole carrier graph visible in CloudWatch the entire time.
Recent Results

Migrations that finished on schedule.|Three customers. Specific outcomes.

Leading insurance broker management system provider in Canada cleared AWS MAP Assess on a 25-year-old VB6/Citrix platform with AI-powered PDF-to-JSON extraction in the production migration plan.

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A U.S. healthcare technology company delivering clinical data analytics and data-driven insights for providers and hospitals ran a full-stack cloud migration: infrastructure, multi-account ECS, and database migration in one engagement.

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Pixis migrated and modernized an AI marketing platform onto AWS with containerised services and security baked in.

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CarSaver modernised a multi-tenant platform with container orchestration and auto-scaling built for promotional peak load.

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ATG modernised a live auction platform at global scale with microservices and multi-tenant deployments on AWS.

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A U.S. multi-tenant SaaS platform for the AV/IT field services industry modernised an AV/IT field service platform to paperless operations with container reliability across regions.

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Case studies
Case Studies

Real outcomes, real customers

Award-winning LMS provider for enterprises and mid-size organizations, the identity platform, One of the largest cinema networks in the U.S., SMS campaign automation platform for e-commerce and restaurant brands. Specific numbers. Named stakeholders.

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Industries
Industries

Where this lands by sector

BFSI, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, telco. Constraints by industry. Response by orchestration.

All industries →
Insights
Insights

How we think about modernization

Engineering essays, AK Way deep-dives, AWS Premier Partner specializations.

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AWS Premier Tier Services Partner

Named on the SOW. Specialized where it matters.

Active AWS competencies and service-delivery designations behind migration programs.

AWS
Premier
GenAI
Comp.
Migration
Comp.
DevOps
Comp.
Well-Arch.
Partner
EKS
Delivery
Lambda
Delivery
CFN
Delivery
+30 more
Migration and Modernization DevOps Consulting Competency Amazon EKS Delivery AWS Lambda Delivery AWS CloudFormation Delivery
Common questions

What CIOs ask before booking a Discovery Sprint.

How long is a typical engagement?
AK Way Migration is a six-to-twelve-month engagement run as a single program with all five gates (Discovery, Schedule, Migrate, Modernize, Operate). MAP funding paperwork is handled inside the engagement. Migration Rescue is an eight-to-sixteen-week sprint that diagnoses where a stalled migration broke and ships the missing gates.
What does the team shape look like?
Migration pods run six to ten people across the five gates: solution architect, MGN/DMS engineers for the cutover, an SCT specialist for schema work, a modernization engineer who lands the modernize-as-you-migrate work, and an AK Way practice owner who runs the gate ceremonies. Sized to workload count and complexity, not bench utilization.
Do we need to already be on AWS?
No: the source can be on-premise, another cloud, or a hybrid estate. AWS MGN handles the replication, DMS the databases, SCT the schema rewrites, and Migration Hub gives the program-level view. The target lands inside your AWS account under your IAM from day one.
How does pricing work?
AK Way Migration is fixed scope per workload and MAP-eligible. AWS Migration Acceleration Program funding typically offsets a meaningful share of engagement cost, and we hold the AWS Migration & Modernization Competency so the assessment paperwork is part of the engagement, not extra.
What does success look like?
Workloads migrated and modernized in the same engagement, MAP funding applied, observability dashboards (CloudWatch + X-Ray) live in the target environment from gate two onwards, and the five-gate playbook transferred to your team on Operate handover. Every stalled migration we've been brought in to rescue has shipped.
Discovery

Book a Discovery Sprint.|Two weeks to a sized migration plan.

Two-week scoped Discovery: we map your application portfolio to value streams, file your MAP eligibility, identify migration shape per workload, and propose a sized full migration or rescue engagement.

For your CTO/COO
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For your engineering lead
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Your first conversation is with the solution architect who would run the engagement.