The demand for HIPAA-compliant cloud services remains exceptionally strong in 2025. Healthcare institutions increasingly recognize the necessity of migrating to secure, scalable, and technologically advanced cloud environments. This trend, which saw significant acceleration in the early 2020s, continues as organizations strive to enhance patient care delivery and operational efficiency through modern technology.

Migrating production workloads with Protected Health Information (PHI) adds extra dimensions of complexity, requiring the entire process to uphold strict security requirements with minimal downtime.

No Cloud Migration project is the same, and Atlantic.Net understands that migrating your production and development environments can be daunting for any IT department. Atlantic.Net’s experienced migration specialists work with you to create a customized migration strategy.

The Atlantic Cloud Platform (ACP) has seen significant growth and technological advancement, and Atlantic.Net offers a variety of cloud hosting products, including HIPAA hosting, with managed services to simplify migrations.

We will be involved as much (or as little) as you need. The migration process typically takes 2-6 weeks, with preplanning work occurring on weekdays and migration cutover available 24/7/365.

Assess, Migrate & Optimize

The Cloud Migration service is split into three stages, with the assessment stage typically involving a detailed risk analysis. This step is key when handling PHI and involves identifying what PHI data is stored and processed on your systems.

The Migration team will scope the existing platform, identify restrictive compliance requirements like data locality regulations, and focus on securing PHI as per HIPAA requirements, ensuring migrations are into secure and compliant environments. A migration approach, such as “lift and shift” or “greenfield re-architecting,” will be decided, ensuring we always use the latest cloud capabilities.

Client consultation is key, alongside reviews of licensing costs, networking, dependencies, server sizing, scaling, and DR options.

Migration Tiers

Atlantic.Net offers a tiered structure to its cloud migration services: Standard, Advanced, and Enterprise. With all three tiers, we commit to getting you into ACP with minimal disruption.

  • Standard Migration includes migrating defined data directories from your current system. The data migration will be completed by the Atlantic.Net’s Security Operations Center (SOC). This service is typically used by clients moving from legacy systems and can include cPanel, file server share, and Plesk migrations.
  • Advanced Migration service assigns a dedicated engineer who will assist with planning, reviewing compatibility, setting up systems that fall under Atlantic.Net’s scope of support for Managed Services, migrating all specified data, and verifying the new environment works correctly per the migration plan.
  • Enterprise Migrations includes everything from the Standard and Advanced migration services, with the added feature of performing complete bare metal restores (BMR) or Physical to Virtual migrations (P2V). Our highly skilled Professional Services teams work with your organization, utilizing specialist software for pre-seeding and user testing to minimize configuration changes and downtime.

Migration Success Program

Atlantic.Net offers a Migration Success Program. This program provides a migration credit if a customer brings a new environment to Atlantic.Net and meets a minimum revenue requirement.

Further details regarding specific eligibility criteria, the nature of the credits for different service tiers, and how the program might apply are typically discussed during the consultation process with Atlantic.Net.

We encourage you to discuss the Migration Success Program with our specialists during your consultation to explore how your project could benefit from available incentives.

Ready to Find Out More?

Atlantic.Net stands ready to help you attain fast compliance with a range of certifications (such as SOC 2 and SOC 3, and for their hosting environments, HIPAA and HITECH). Atlantic.Net offers HIPAA hosting services.

Migrations leverage these secure environments, ensuring Protected Health Information (PHI) is handled with the necessary safeguards throughout your transition. For faster application deployment, free IT architecture design, and assessment, visit us at www.atlantic.net, call USA: 866-618-DATA (3282), International: +1-408-335-0825, or email us at [email protected].

Partner with Atlantic.Net for a meticulously planned and expertly executed migration, ensuring your healthcare workloads are transitioned to a secure, compliant, and optimized cloud environment.