AWS Migration Hub
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What is AWS Migration Hub
AWS Migration Hub is an AWS service that provides a central place to track and manage application migration progress into AWS. It aggregates status and metadata from supported AWS migration tools and partner solutions to help teams coordinate waves, monitor tasks, and report on migration execution. It is primarily used by cloud migration program teams, cloud architects, and operations teams running multi-application migrations. The service focuses on migration visibility and orchestration rather than performing data transfer itself.
Centralized migration tracking
AWS Migration Hub consolidates migration status across multiple applications and migration tools into a single console. This helps teams standardize reporting and reduce manual status collection during large migration programs. It supports grouping and tracking by application, which aligns to common wave-based migration planning. The result is clearer execution visibility than using individual tool dashboards alone.
Native AWS service integration
The service integrates with AWS migration services and can ingest progress signals from supported tooling used for server and application moves. This reduces the need to build custom dashboards for AWS-target migrations. It also aligns with AWS identity, permissions, and account structures, which simplifies access control for AWS-centric teams. For organizations standardizing on AWS, this can streamline operational adoption.
Program-level reporting support
Migration Hub is designed for portfolio-level oversight, helping stakeholders track multiple migrations concurrently. It supports views that help identify blockers and stalled tasks across applications. This is useful for PMO-style governance and for coordinating technical teams during cutovers. It complements point tools that focus on moving specific workloads or datasets.
Limited non-AWS portability
AWS Migration Hub is oriented around migrations into AWS and AWS account constructs. Organizations pursuing multi-cloud targets or non-AWS landing zones may find the service less applicable as a central system of record. In those cases, teams often need additional tooling for cross-cloud governance. This can reduce its usefulness for heterogeneous environments.
Not a data movement tool
Migration Hub does not itself transfer data, replicate storage, or execute content migrations. Teams still need separate services or third-party tools for file, database, or SaaS content movement and transformation. This separation can add integration and operational overhead. Buyers expecting an end-to-end migration engine may need to assemble multiple components.
Visibility depends on connectors
The completeness and granularity of tracking depends on which migration tools are used and what signals they provide to Migration Hub. If a workload is migrated with unsupported methods or custom scripts, teams may need to implement additional integration to maintain consistent reporting. This can lead to uneven status fidelity across applications. As a result, governance benefits vary by toolchain standardization.
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (with a permanently free core service for discovery/planning/tracking)
Free tier/trial:
- Migration Hub core (collecting/storing discovery data, planning and tracking a migration) — free to use (no charge).
- Refactor Spaces: 2,160 free environment hours per month for 90 days (time-limited free trial). Refactor Spaces also includes 500,000 free API requests per month (permanent free tier).
Example costs / published rates (Refactor Spaces):
- Environments: $0.028 per environment-hour (equivalent to $20 per month per environment if run continuously).
- API requests: $0.000002 per request (e.g., 1,000,000 requests = $2).
Other notes / additional charges:
- Refactor Spaces has no upfront costs or minimum fees; you pay for environment hours and API requests as used.
- You will also incur charges for any AWS services provisioned by Refactor Spaces (EC2, EBS, Transit Gateway, API Gateway, Network Load Balancer, etc.) according to those services' pricing.
- AWS recommends using the AWS Pricing Calculator and contacting AWS for personalized quotes.
Seller details
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, USA
2006
Subsidiary
https://aws.amazon.com/
https://x.com/awscloud
https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon-web-services/
