Cutover Plan: Proven Rollback Steps to Avoid Cloud Risk
A cutover plan is the hour-by-hour script for moving a live service to the cloud, plus the conditions under which you stop and go back. This guide covers the cutover strategies and when each applies, how to build a runbook people can follow at three in the morning, setting RTO and RPO and sizing the window, the three-pass data sync and the point of no return, the rollback plan in the detail it deserves, go/no-go criteria and the T-minus schedule, rehearsing the reverse path, cutover day roles, hypercare and decommissioning, and the mistakes that turn a twelve-hour window into a thirty-hour one.
