Short answer
FirstNet keeps downtime low during a cloud migration with replication, staged cutovers, rollback plans and after-hours change windows. Your services stay online while workloads move.
In detail
How a FirstNet migration runs:
- Discovery: FirstNet lists your workloads, maps how they depend on each other and checks readiness, so the move starts from a clear baseline.
- Landing zone design: FirstNet builds secure private, public or hybrid target environments to suit your compliance and performance needs.
- Migration waves: each phased cutover is rehearsed in advance, clearly communicated and backed by a rollback option.
- App modernisation: where it adds value, apps are containerised, refactored or automated.
- After the move: ongoing monitoring, cost governance and continual tuning.
Before wider waves, FirstNet proves the pattern on a small first step that matches your most urgent workload. For example, an Azure landing zone plus a first non-production workload typically takes 4 to 8 weeks.
For FirstNet Private Cloud, a discovery and sizing workshop comes before any migration timeline. FirstNet matches the target hypervisor (VMware vSphere or Microsoft Hyper-V) to your current setup to simplify the move. Complex migrations get a dedicated technical workshop before FirstNet commits to timelines. These include moves with many dependencies, tight downtime windows or regulated workloads.
Source: FirstNet Cloud Migration & Modernization service page →
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