Rehosting ("Lift and Shift") Cloud Migration Services

Accelerate cloud adoption by moving your applications without the need for redesign. AIM helps you plan and execute rehosting migrations that reduce risk, improve performance, and maintain business continuity. Our proven approach ensures a fast, secure transition that lays the groundwork for future modernization.

Accelerate your cloud journey with rapid, risk-aware rehosting strategies.

As enterprises seek agility and cost-efficiency, rehosting—commonly known as "lift and shift"—offers a pragmatic first step in the cloud migration journey. At AIM Technologies, we help organizations rapidly migrate applications to the cloud with minimal disruption, enabling faster time-to-value while laying the foundation for future optimization.

What Is Rehosting?

Rehosting involves moving workloads from on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments—such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud—without significant changes to the application architecture. This approach is often the fastest and most cost-effective way to exit legacy data centers, meet compliance deadlines, or respond to market pressures.
While a rehosted environment may not immediately leverage all cloud-native capabilities, it provides a stable platform that enables phased modernization.

When to Choose Lift and Shift

Rehosting is ideal for:
  • Urgent data center exits or lease expirations
  • Tight project timelines or limited skilled cloud resources
  • Stable legacy systems that perform well but need modern hosting
  • Dependencies with minimal architectural complexity
  • Transitional workloads en route to modernization
Our clients often choose lift and shift when immediate migration is the priority, but long-term cloud optimization is still the goal.

AIM’s Rehosting Capabilities

At AIM Technologies, our cloud architects and engineers provide a structured, reliable rehosting service that helps organizations achieve migration success quickly and confidently:

Cloud Readiness Assessment

We begin with a thorough evaluation of your IT estate, identifying dependencies, risks, and optimal migration groupings. This ensures each application is mapped to the most suitable migration strategy.

Cloud Landing Zone Design

Our team designs and builds secure, scalable landing zones tailored to your governance, compliance, and operational needs. This ensures consistency and readiness across your cloud environment.

Application Migration

Using proven frameworks and tools, we execute rehost migrations with minimal downtime. Applications are migrated as-is, preserving core functionality while moving into a scalable infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) model.

Post-Migration Optimization Planning

Rehosting is only the beginning. We design a roadmap for iterative optimization—enabling you to evolve toward platform-as-a-service (PaaS) models, implement automation, and eventually modernize into cloud-native architectures.

Why AIM?

Vendor-Neutral Expertise

We support all major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).

Repeatable, Scalable Process

Our migration factory model ensures consistency and quality across migration waves.

Integrated Support Services

From DevOps enablement to application monitoring, we deliver full lifecycle services post-migration.

Cost and Risk Management:

We help you avoid common cloud pitfalls by building realistic business cases, estimating TCO, and planning for long-term efficiency.

Beyond Lift and Shift: Prepare to Optimize

A common mistake in rehosting is "lift and forget"—migrating workloads but never following through with cloud optimization. At AIM, we structure migrations with the explicit intention of evolving your infrastructure to fully leverage cloud elasticity, automation, and cost controls. Our services include:

• Application refactoring assessments

• PaaS adoption roadmaps

• Performance tuning and automation

• Managed services for continuous improvement

Ready to Migrate?

Whether you’re driven by cost, compliance, or agility, AIM Technologies provides a dependable path to the cloud. Let’s lift your workloads—and shift your business forward.

Contact us today to schedule a readiness assessment or learn more about our rehosting and cloud migration services.

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