Cloud
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How to move a live platform to AWS without downtime
A step-by-step plan for moving a live application from Azure or your own servers to AWS with no downtime, from the first audit to the cutover and after.
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Louie Heaton
Founder of Hatcha. Spent years building and running live services at AWS before starting Hatcha in 2022.
I spent years building and running the systems behind live services at AWS, where going down was never an option. I learned that reliable software isn’t about heroics. It’s about decisions made early: how things are hosted, how changes are released, how problems are spotted and how quickly you can recover.
I started Hatcha in 2022 to bring that standard of engineering to businesses that can’t justify, or don’t want, their own technical team. When you work with Hatcha, you work with me and a small team of senior engineers, not account managers.
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