Data Migration from Data Center to Atlassian Government Cloud: Your Secure Path Forward

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Stop Managing Servers, Start Serving Citizens: The FedRAMP Cloud Advantage

Data Migration from Data Center to Atlassian Government Cloud: Your Secure Path Forward

Federal agencies can now migrate from Data Center to FedRAMP Moderate authorized Atlassian Government Cloud, achieving 358% ROI while maintaining strict security compliance and reducing server maintenance costs.

The Government Cloud Advantage

Atlassian Government Cloud has achieved FedRAMP Moderate Authorization, representing a massive milestone in supporting U.S. public sector customers. This secure, compliant platform enables U.S. federal, state, and local government entities, as well as their industry partners, to confidently adopt Atlassian Government Cloud, benefiting from seamless agency-wide collaboration, enhanced access to data-driven insights, and streamlined administrative processes.

Unlike commercial cloud offerings, Atlassian Government Cloud is a cloud option hosted in a separate environment reserved for U.S. government agencies and their industry partners, ensuring your sensitive data remains isolated and compliant with federal requirements.

Why Migrate Now?

Cost Optimization: According to Forrester research, teams on average receive a 358% ROI by migrating to Cloud. This also enables government agencies currently using Atlassian Data Center to migrate to Atlassian Government Cloud, accessing the latest innovations in cloud technology while reducing server maintenance costs.

Enhanced Security: Atlassian Cloud for Government ensures compliance with National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53 security controls and uses AES-256 encryption for data at rest and TLS 1.2+ encryption for data in transit.

Future-Ready Infrastructure: Atlassian is actively pursuing FedRAMP High and DoD IL5 compliance, further strengthening its commitment to supporting the needs of federal agencies.

Migration Process: The MAGIC Framework

Atlassian's proven MAGIC framework outlines the steps for assessing your server or Data Center instances to identify and mitigate potential friction points and get to cloud faster:

• Assess (Weeks 1-2): Evaluate current landscape, including apps, customizations, and data size
• Prepare (Weeks 3-4): Activate your free Cloud migration trial that matches your current self-managed user tier (up to 20,000 users)
• Test (Weeks 5-6): Execute staging migration using Cloud Migration Assistants for Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
• Launch (Week 7): Production migration with minimal downtime

The Solution Partner Advantage

Switching from self-hosting to the Cloud usually only happens once in an organization's lifetime, making expertise critical. Atlassian's network of Cloud Specialized Solution Partners caters to your organization's specific migration needs, vetted by strict program requirements measuring competency, capability, and customer satisfaction. Solution Partners can provide valuable insights on the Critical Path forward for your migration.

Strategic Assessment: Solution Partners assess your organization's environment to find the best migration strategy for your needs, creating a migration timeline that suits your needs and goals, meets your security requirements, and ensures you won't experience downtime.

Risk Mitigation: Before executing the data migration, Solution Partners test the proposed strategy in a staging environment (Sandbox), mapping all possible issues and their respective fixes.

Ongoing Success: The journey doesn't end when your migration goes live. Solution Partners offer ongoing support, train your teams, and help you improve workload efficiency and scale down the road.

Timeline Expectations

Migration timelines are typically closer to 3 months for 1,000 users, 6 months for 1,000-5,000 users, and 9 months or more for 5,000+ users. For customers migrating 1,001+ users, Atlassian offers additional technical support through the FastShift program and pricing discounts to ensure a smooth experience.

Your mission-critical work deserves mission-ready technology. The path from Data Center (DC) to Atlassian Government Cloud (AGC) isn't just about infrastructure, it's about empowering your teams to serve citizens better while maintaining the highest security standards.