Release note — migration family, 2026-10-21

What the migration family covers at first release, the cross-cloud source support it leads with, the two mechanics it deliberately does not describe, and what is known to be missing.

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Migration family — first release

This is the family the hub was commissioned for: the owner's stated use case is *"research parity across hosting to make it simpler to estimate, architect, and complete migration work from one to another."*

Added

DocumentWhat it carries
reference/migration/migration-center.mdthe assessment platform, three collection methods, six outputs and what an estimate does with each
reference/migration/migrate-to-virtual-machines.mdthe sources including AWS and Azure, and the host/target project split
reference/migration/database-migration-service.mdthe four homogeneous and four heterogeneous paths
reference/migration/storage-transfer-service.mdthe sources, scheduled against event-driven, the agents, the 1 TiB threshold
reference/migration/errors.mdeight rows, none of which is a bug in a migration service
guides/migration/assess-before-you-move.mdthe seven measurements that make an estimate defensible
guides/parity/migration.mdthe tooling counterparts, and the cost no tool on any cloud covers

The headline facts

  1. AWS and Azure are first-class sources for Migrate to Virtual Machines, and for Storage Transfer Service,

and Migration Center explicitly covers "other cloud environments". The cross-cloud path is first-party, not improvised.

  1. Oracle and SQL Server have documented paths onto PostgreSQL (Cloud SQL and AlloyDB). "Migrate" and

"leave the commercial licence" can be one project.

  1. Source-side egress is the line no tool on any cloud covers, and on a large estate it can exceed a year

of the destination's storage bill. Every document in this family says so.

What this release deliberately does not describe

  • The Migrate to Virtual Machines replication and test-clone mechanics. The architecture page read does not

detail them in the content read, and they are exactly what a cut-over window depends on. Nothing is asserted.

  • Database Migration Service's change-data-capture specifics. "Ongoing replication" is stated; replication

lag and DDL handling are not. A cut-over window estimated without reading those pages is a guess.

  • Storage Transfer Service's delete-after-transfer and overwrite behaviours. Not detailed on the overview,

and both are destructive-adjacent. The error catalogue says to verify on a small prefix first.

  • The supported-databases engine and version list. It is a living list and quoting it would rot.

Known missing

  • Migrate for Anthos / app-to-container migration.
  • Transfer Appliance and offline transfer.
  • Backup and DR Service.
  • VMware Engine.
  • Cut-over runbooks and rollback procedures — the highest-value thing this family could add next.

Read this document as markdown — the same bytes an agent receives.