Cloud migration market set to boom, but discipline is key

The cloud migration services market is expected to grow from $16.90 billion in 2024 to $70.34 billion by 2030, but the real story is about discipline.When a system holds stored value, “we’ll take a maintenance window” stops being a technical plan and becomes a business decision nobody wants to defend later.Saumya Tyagi, a senior software engineer at Auger and author of Zero-Downtime Database Migrations Patterns for Replatforming Financial-Grade Systems at Scale, has built migrations where reversibility is treated as a baseline rather than a nice-to-have.To understand how teams can replatform financial-grade systems without disrupting customers, we spoke with Tyagi.Downtime Is Not a Window, It’s a Debt“Zero downtime is not a promise you make at the end,” Tyagi said. “It is a constraint you accept at the start. If rollback is not clean and fast, you do not have a migration plan. You have a gamble.”That mindset is spreading because the cost of even a brief outage is rarely limited to the