Automating the Great Escape: Cloud Migration Pipelines with an AI Copilot in the Loop

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:00:00 -0500

Every datacenter exit starts the same way: someone opens a spreadsheet with 1,400 rows, and someone else says “we’ll just lift and shift.” Eighteen months later, half the estate is still on-prem and the spreadsheet has become sentient.

This is a field report from a migration that didn’t go that way — 140 production workloads moved in 11 months, zero rollback events. The difference wasn’t heroics. It was treating the migration as a factory, not a project, and putting an AI copilot inside the loop where humans were the bottleneck.

Infrastructure-as-Code on Corrupted Glitch

Automating the Great Escape: Cloud Migration Pipelines with an AI Copilot in the Loop