Workload migrations are rarely as simple as flipping a switch. For most IT and security teams, moving to the cloud means managing a massive surge in telemetry data while trying to avoid visibility gaps and security risks. When you are in the middle of a migration, the last thing you need is a blind spot in your logs, metrics, traces, and events.
Common obstacles to migrations
The biggest risk during a migration is not the move itself. It is losing sight of what is happening in your environment during the transition. Without a way to shape and route data in real time, organizations typically hit three walls:
The visibility black hole: Data often ends up trapped in silos. If your security tools cannot see the new cloud workloads and your operations tools are still looking at the old ones, you have a massive blind spot.
Operational friction: Trying to force legacy data formats into modern cloud-based solutions is a recipe for broken dashboards and failed alerts.
The cost of everything everywhere: Shipping all of your raw telemetry to every new destination is expensive and noisy. It buries the actual signals you need to ensure the migration is successful.
Cribl’s approach to cloud migrations
Cribl is an AWS ISV Workload Migration Program (WMP) partner that helps you navigate uncertainty during cloud migrations and beyond. Cribl helps you modernize workloads by giving you choice, flexibility, and control over telemetry data as you move to AWS. Cribl ensures your data stays accessible and actionable throughout the entire transition. By using Cribl Stream, you can decouple sources from destinations to manage data flow as your environment evolves. Collect data from any on-premises or cloud source, transform the data, and route it to the right AWS hosted services without being locked into one vendor. This gives you the control to validate and optimize your data before, during, and after your move to the cloud. For federal agencies or organizations with federal mandates for SaaS workloads, teams can leverage Cribl.Cloud Government, which provides an environment specifically built for those workloads.
Benefits of working with a WMP partner
WMP partners provide tools, best practices, and funding to support workload migrations quickly. Through the WMP, Cribl and AWS have partnered to simplify and secure your migration from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud, offering:
A proven migration process that mitigates risk
Faster time to value through rapid cloud adoption
Reduced migration costs with AWS funding
Post-migration optimized cloud security and operations
The 3 stage blueprint for a low-risk migration
Successful migrations using Cribl and AWS follow a phased approach to ensure operational continuity and data integrity.
1. Pre-migration: Prepare and prioritize
Before workloads move, teams need a clear understanding of what data matters most and where it should go. Cribl enables teams to prioritize the telemetry data most important to their organization, normalize it for consistency, enrich it with additional context, and establish routing rules that support both existing environments and AWS. This preparation reduces blind spots and sets a strong foundation before any cutover occurs.
2. During the migration: Decouple and validate
As workloads transition to AWS, maintaining visibility is essential. With Cribl, teams can send copies of data to AWS hosted solutions while legacy systems remain active, validate that monitoring and security signals are intact, and test changes incrementally. This approach minimizes risk and avoids disruptive all-at-once transitions.
3. Post-migration: Optimize for efficiency
Once workloads are running on AWS, Cribl continues to help teams manage change. Low-value or duplicate data can be filtered out, important data can be routed to the right AWS hosted services, and data flows can evolve as environments scale. This ongoing flexibility helps teams control costs and maintain operational awareness as cloud usage grows.
Real results from the field
Here is how two organizations moved past the migration headaches and modernized their approach to telemetry management.
Autodesk used Cribl Stream to reduce duplicate log ingestion by 166%. They achieved over 93% of their data optimization targets and completed their cutover in less than half a day.
Accenture Federal Services supported a large US civilian agency by using live data previews to reduce friction. They executed a cloud sprint from planning to rollout in just three or four months while maintaining uninterrupted visibility.
Reaching your modernization goals
The goal of any migration is an environment that is more agile, secure, and cost-effective. By using Cribl and AWS together, you can stop getting caught in the complexity of the data pipeline and start focusing on long-term modernization. Whether you are migrating a single workload or an entire architecture, this approach ensures your data remains accessible and actionable every step of the way. Curious to learn more? See this solution brief, and infographic.
Want to take the next step in your migration journey? Get started with Cribl on AWS Marketplace or schedule a custom demo with Cribl.
