Kuala Lumpur · serving Malaysia & Thailand
Cloud Migration Services
Aqvantiq is a multi-cloud AI system integrator in Kuala Lumpur that plans and executes cloud migrations for organizations in Malaysia. We move applications, databases and infrastructure to AWS, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Azure and DigitalOcean — from on-premises, from another cloud, or from one region to another — using a phased assess, plan and execute method with a rollback position at every wave.
- Assess · Plan · Execute
- AWS · GCP · Huawei Cloud · Azure · DigitalOcean
- Terraform-built landing zones
- Founder-led, senior engineers only
Cloud migration services, explained
Cloud migration services cover the assessment, planning and execution of moving applications, data and infrastructure onto a cloud platform, or between clouds. A credible engagement produces an inventory and dependency map, a decision per application, a wave plan with cutover runbooks and rollback criteria, and the landing zone the workloads arrive into. The move itself is the last part.
The hardest migration failures are rarely in the cloud infrastructure itself. They come from an undocumented dependency, a cutover window set before anyone measured the data copy, or no agreed point at which to roll back. Assessment exists to remove those three surprises.
How Aqvantiq runs a cloud migration
In three phases: assess, plan, execute. Assessment inventories what you run and how it depends on everything else. Planning turns that into a target design, a wave order and a cutover runbook per wave. Execution builds the landing zone in Terraform, migrates wave by wave, and keeps the old environment available until each wave is verified.
Assess
Find out what you actually run, before anyone promises a date.
- Inventory of servers, databases, integrations and batch jobs.
- Dependency mapping, including the ones that only surface at month end.
- Data volumes, change rates and the network path they must travel.
- A decision per application: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire or retain.
Plan
Turn the assessment into a target design and an order of operations.
- Target landing zone: accounts, network, identity, logging, guardrails.
- Wave plan grouped by dependency, risk and business calendar.
- A cutover runbook per wave with named owners and a verification checklist.
- Rollback criteria, the deadline that triggers them, and a cost model for the target.
Execute
Build it in code, move in waves, keep a way back.
- Landing zone built with Terraform, so the target can be rebuilt and reviewed as a diff.
- Pilot wave with a low-risk application to prove the runbook end to end.
- Replication ahead of cutover, so the switch moves a pointer, not a database.
- Cutover, verification, hypercare — then the old environment shut down deliberately.
We migrate to all five major clouds
AWS, Google Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Azure and DigitalOcean. Aqvantiq is genuinely multi-cloud rather than a single-vendor reseller, so the target is chosen against your workloads, your data residency position and the licences you already hold — not against whichever partner program pays best.
| Cloud | Where it usually fits | What we build there |
|---|---|---|
| AWS | Broadest service catalogue, plus an in-country Malaysia region since August 2024. | Multi-account landing zone, VPC, EKS or ECS, RDS, S3, IAM, cost guardrails. |
| Google Cloud | Data and analytics-heavy estates, BigQuery, teams standardizing on GKE. | Folder and project structure, shared VPC, GKE, BigQuery, Cloud SQL, budgets. |
| Huawei Cloud | When procurement favors Huawei or you already run it — a platform few Malaysian integrators staff, and we do. | VPC and ECS design, CCE for containers, RDS, object storage, day-2 operations. |
| Azure | Microsoft-centric estates. Often a migration origin as much as a target. | Landing zone, AKS, Azure SQL, identity integration, export paths when Azure is the source. |
| DigitalOcean | Smaller teams wanting predictable pricing and less surface area to operate. | Droplets, managed databases, DOKS, all Terraform-managed. |
When the AWS Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region fits
Possibly, if latency to Malaysian users, in-country data residency or cost is driving the decision. AWS opened the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, with three Availability Zones on 21 August 2024, and per FinOps vendor usage.ai, EC2 pricing there runs roughly 13% below Singapore's ap-southeast-1. Check service availability against your architecture before committing.
- Service availability — not every AWS service launches in a new region at once.
- Measured latency from your users' networks, not assumed latency.
- The one-off data transfer out of the current region, which can eat a year of savings.
- Savings Plans and Reserved Instances already bought in Singapore.
- Which region becomes the disaster-recovery secondary, and what it costs to keep warm.
We model the target-state cost against your actual usage first, then treat the region move as a migration in its own right. If the numbers do not justify it, we say so. See cloud architecture consulting for the target design, or managed cloud services for running the result.
Data residency in Malaysia
It is now a standing question in Malaysian procurement. The Ministry of Digital launched the National Cloud Computing Policy on 13 August 2025, built on five pillars including secure data protection and privacy. We design migrations so region choice, data classification and cross-border flows are decided explicitly and written down.
We are engineers, not your legal advisers: your compliance team defines the obligations, and our job is to make the architecture match them and stay auditable. Full guide: cloud compliance in Malaysia — the Cyber Security Act 2024, BNM RMiT, the PDPA and the NCCP.
Keeping downtime low during cutover
By making cutover boring. Data is replicated ahead of time so the switch moves a pointer, not a database. Each wave gets a rehearsal against a copy, a written runbook with named owners and timings, a verification checklist, and a rollback trigger with a deadline. The old environment stays available until verification passes.
Replicate first
Replication runs for days beforehand, so only the final delta moves in the window.
Rehearse
A dry run against a copy proves the runbook and produces a real timing, not an estimate.
Cut over in waves
Low-risk applications first. Each wave teaches the next, and a bad wave stays contained.
Keep a way back
Rollback criteria and a decision deadline agreed before the window opens, not during it.
A worked example of the same method: over 1,000 repositories moved onto one platform in waves of 200 to 300, with the sources that needed rebuilding cut over by delta after their replacement had already been tested — read the case study.
Frequently asked questions
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Ask an engineer What are cloud migration services?
Cloud migration services cover the assessment, planning and execution of moving applications, data and infrastructure onto a cloud platform, or between clouds. A credible engagement produces an inventory and dependency map, a decision per application, a wave plan with cutover runbooks and rollback criteria, and the landing zone the workloads arrive into. The move itself is the last part.
Can you migrate us between clouds, not just from on-premises?
Yes. Cloud-to-cloud migrations are a large share of the work: consolidating two clouds after an acquisition, moving a workload closer to its users, or leaving a platform that no longer fits commercially. Azure is frequently the origin rather than the destination. The method is the same — assess, plan, execute — and the dependency mapping matters more, not less.
How long does a cloud migration take?
Four things drive it: how many applications move, how tangled their dependencies are, how much data has to be replicated, and how much downtime the business will accept. We size after assessment, not before it, and give you a wave plan with dates. Anyone quoting a duration before seeing your dependency map is quoting a hope.
What drives the cost of a migration engagement?
The same four factors that drive the duration, plus how much of the target has to be built rather than reused. Assessment is scoped and priced on its own, so you can buy the findings and the wave plan without committing to the execution. A single application with a clean interface is a short engagement; a legacy estate with a shared database and a mainframe-era batch window is not.
Do you migrate workloads to Huawei Cloud?
Yes. Huawei Cloud is a first-class target for us, alongside AWS, Google Cloud, Azure and DigitalOcean, which is uncommon among Malaysian cloud consultancies. That matters when procurement or an existing estate points at Huawei and every other bidder quietly proposes something else. See our Huawei Cloud services.
Who runs the environment after the migration is done?
Your choice. Some clients take handover with the Terraform repository, runbooks and dashboards we built, and run it themselves. Others keep us on for day-2 operations under managed cloud services. Either way the environment is documented and reproducible before the engagement closes.
What happens to our existing on-premises environment?
Each application gets an explicit decision during assessment: migrate, retire, or retain where it is. After a wave is verified, the source stays available for an agreed soak period, then is shut down deliberately with the licence, support-contract and hardware implications written down first. Nothing is switched off because a spreadsheet said it was done.
How do you handle data residency during a migration?
By deciding it in the design rather than discovering it at go-live. Which region holds which classification of data, where backups and logs land, which services replicate across borders by default, and who holds the encryption keys — all written down before a wave moves. Our Malaysian cloud compliance guide covers the rules that usually drive those answers.
Do you handle migrations for our Thai entity as well?
Yes. Aqvantiq delivers across Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok with the same group of engineers, so a group with entities in both countries runs one migration standard instead of two vendors and two methods. See cloud migration services in Thailand.
Related services
Cloud Architecture Consulting
The target design, landing zone and cost model your migration lands into.
DevOps as a Service
CI/CD, Terraform and Kubernetes, so the new environment stays reproducible.
Managed Cloud Services
Day-2 operations after cutover: monitoring, patching, incidents and cost control.
Application Modernization
For the applications that should be refactored rather than lifted and shifted.
Send us your application list
Even a rough one. We will tell you what an assessment would cover and where the risk usually sits in an estate like yours.