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Assess your requirements for cloud

Complete a pre-migration assessment to ensure a smooth journey to cloud.

Cover your bases with the MAGIC 5

After assisting countless teams with their cloud migrations, we’ve identified a few areas that deserve a closer look during assessment. To remember these 5 key topics, we use a mnemonic device: MAGIC.

MAGIC outlines the steps for assessing your team’s needs to identify and mitigate potential friction points and get to cloud faster.

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Elements of a complete cloud assessment

Migration strategy

  • Evaluate your current setup

  • Determine your ideal end state in Cloud

  • Map out your migration timeline

  • Understand your data migration strategy options

Discover strategies

Apps and integrations

  • Complete an automated app assessment with our Cloud Migration Assistants

  • Determine the apps you'll need and identify alternatives

  • Learn how security factors into Cloud apps and app migrations

Assess apps

Growth and scalability

  • Check Cloud user limits

  • Explore Cloud performance

  • Consider data cleanup in your current setup for performance optimization in Cloud

Prep for performance in cloud
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Identity management

  • Implement centralized user management and IAM policies

  • Learn about SSO & SCIM with Atlassian Guard

  • Review cloud IAM best practices

Evaluate user management strategies
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Compliance and security

  • Evaluate Cloud security policies and capabilities

  • Learn how privacy and reliability are built into Cloud

  • Review compliance programs and certifications

Evaluate cloud security

For migrations with higher user counts (over 1000), Atlassian will go through this process with you. Get in touch with our sales team for tailored advice.

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After assessing, learn how to migrate with our guide

Build your migration plan

  • Evaluate Cloud security policies and capabilities

  • Learn how privacy and reliability are built into Cloud

  • Review compliance programs and certifications

Plan with the guide

Determine your Cloud requirements

Audit your current apps

77 out of our top 100 Server apps are available in Cloud, and we’re adding more each week. Use our Cloud Migration Assistants to understand your Server app landscape and app availability in Cloud.

Assess apps

Determine your timeline

With the majority of our investments in Cloud, there’s always more to come. See when we've delivered certain product, security, and compliance features in Cloud and what's up next.

View roadmap

Understand the migration process

Part of your decision involves understanding what steps are involved in the migration process so you can establish your complexity, level of support required, timeline, and resourcing needs.

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Time to value with Atlassian Cloud

37% less than six months, 75% less than three months, 89% less than six months

Calculate your costs in Cloud

The majority of our customers realize the benefits of Cloud fewer than 3 months after migrating. See how much time and money you could save by moving to Cloud.

Estimate costs

Compare Cloud and Data Center

Use our detailed table to compare the fundamentals of Cloud and Data Center, including pricing model, security and compliance, availability, user management, and more.

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Get started

Take our migration assessment to get tailored resources and jumpstart your journey to Cloud.

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