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Service: prescriptive-guidance · 2026-07-10 · Documentation low

File: prescriptive-guidance/latest/large-migration-guide/phases.md

Summary

Updated navigation links, simplified section headings, corrected image paths, replaced apostrophes, consolidated content about migration phases/workstreams, and added markdown formatting for workstream names.

Security assessment

Changes are editorial improvements including link updates, grammatical corrections, content restructuring, and formatting enhancements. No security vulnerabilities, security features, or security-specific terminology are mentioned or modified in the diff.

Diff

diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/large-migration-guide/phases.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/large-migration-guide/phases.md
index 961f2ebd8..4e6250aad 100644
--- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/large-migration-guide/phases.md
+++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/large-migration-guide/phases.md
@@ -5 +5 @@
-[Documentation](/index.html)[AWS Prescriptive Guidance](https://aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/)[Guide for AWS large migrations](welcome.html)
+[Documentation](/index.html)[AWS Prescriptive Guidance](https://aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/)[Guide for AWS large migrations](introduction.html)
@@ -17 +17 @@ AWS segments the large migration process into three sequential phases:
-  3. Migrate and modernize phase of a large migration project – You use your strategy, plan, and the best practices to migrate and modernize. In this phase, migration is divided into two stages, initialize and implement.
+  3. Migrate and modernize phase – You use your strategy, plan, and the best practices to migrate and modernize. In this phase, migration is divided into two stages, initialize and implement. 
@@ -26 +26 @@ The following figure shows the three phases of a large migration: assess, mobili
-![""](/images/prescriptive-guidance/latest/large-migration-guide/images/stages.png)
+![](/images/prescriptive-guidance/latest/large-migration-guide/images/guide-img/a7434c46-8e52-4896-84b2-cc91433b5072/images/7105cf2e-2968-4996-a504-5dc697f07ce6.png)
@@ -32 +32 @@ Even though this document set for large migration is focused on the migrate phas
-This is the start of your large-migration journey. In this phase, you build your business case for the large migration. You assess your organization’s readiness for cloud transformation, take an initial look at your portfolio, and confirm that the key stakeholders in your organization are aligned.
+This is the start of your large-migration journey. In this phase, you build your business case for the large migration. You assess your organization's readiness for cloud transformation, take an initial look at your portfolio, and confirm that the key stakeholders in your organization are aligned.
@@ -42 +42 @@ For more information about the mobilize phase, see [Mobilize your organization t
-## Migrate and modernize phase of a large migration project
+## Migrate and modernize phase
@@ -46,10 +46 @@ After the mobilize phase, your organization should have a solid foundation and b
-Just like a manufacturing factory, when you build a migration factory, you must initialize and calibrate it, define the standard operating procedures, measure the factory’s performance, and continually improve the process and tools. In a large migration, initialization is a critical first stage. Running and improving the factory is the second stage, implementation, which migrates your servers at scale in batches known as waves. You organize your resources into workstreams, which are focused on accomplishing one aspect of the large migration.
-
-This section consists of the following topics:
-
-  * About workstreams
-
-  * About the initialize and implement stages
-
-
-
+Just like a manufacturing factory, when you build a migration factory, you must initialize and calibrate it, define the standard operating procedures, measure the factory's performance, and continually improve the process and tools. In a large migration, initialization is a critical first stage. Running and improving the factory is the second stage, implementation, which migrates your servers at scale in batches known as _waves_. You organize your resources into workstreams, which are focused on accomplishing one aspect of the large migration.
@@ -63 +54 @@ The following are the four core workstreams, and you can create additional, supp
-  * Foundation workstream – This workstream is focused on preparing the people and platform for the large migration.
+  * **Foundation workstream** – This workstream is focused on preparing the people and platform for the large migration.
@@ -65 +56 @@ The following are the four core workstreams, and you can create additional, supp
-  * Project governance workstream – This workstream manages the overall migration project, facilitates communication, and focuses on completing the project within budget and on time.
+  * **Project governance workstream** – This workstream manages the overall migration project, facilitates communication, and focuses on completing the project within budget and on time.
@@ -67 +58 @@ The following are the four core workstreams, and you can create additional, supp
-  * Portfolio workstream – The teams in this workstream collect metadata to support the migration, prioritize applications, and perform wave planning.
+  * **Portfolio workstream** – The teams in this workstream collect metadata to support the migration, prioritize applications, and perform wave planning.
@@ -69 +60 @@ The following are the four core workstreams, and you can create additional, supp
-  * Migration workstream – Using the wave plan and collected metadata from the portfolio workstream, the teams in this workstream migrate and cutover the applications and servers.
+  * **Migration workstream** – Using the wave plan and collected metadata from the portfolio workstream, the teams in this workstream migrate and cutover the applications and servers.
@@ -80 +71 @@ Migrate and modernize is the third and final phase of your migration journey. Ge
-  * Stage 1: Initialize a large migration – You prepare your platform and people for a large migration. For example, you review the landing zone design and verify that it has enough bandwidth to support the scale, and you design and implement a training plan. In this stage, based on your organization’s policies and processes, you also define the standard operating procedures (or _runbooks_) for the large migration. The runbooks and automations simplify and accelerate implementation of the large migration in stage 2.
+  * **Stage 1: Initialize a large migration** – You prepare your platform and people for a large migration. For example, you review the landing zone design and verify that it has enough bandwidth to support the scale, and you design and implement a training plan. In this stage, based on your organization's policies and processes, you also define the standard operating procedures (or _runbooks_) for the large migration. The runbooks and automations simplify and accelerate implementation of the large migration in stage 2.
@@ -82 +73 @@ Migrate and modernize is the third and final phase of your migration journey. Ge
-  * Stage 2: Implement a large migration – In this stage, you migrate servers at scale by using the runbooks defined in stage 1. You manage the migration factory with project governance tools, monitor the migration with a health-check matrix, and continuously improve the runbooks in order to increase the velocity of the migration.
+  * **Stage 2: Implement a large migration** – In this stage, you migrate servers at scale by using the runbooks defined in stage 1. You manage the migration factory with project governance tools, monitor the migration with a health-check matrix, and continuously improve the runbooks in order to increase the velocity of the migration.
@@ -110 +101 @@ Introduction
-Stage 1: Initializing
+Stage 1: Initializing a large migration