Choosing a cloud migration partner is one of the most consequential technology decisions an enterprise makes. Get it right, and you accelerate your digital transformation. Get it wrong, and you’re stuck with technical debt for years.
## Local Expertise Matters
Nigeria’s infrastructure has unique characteristics—intermittent connectivity, power challenges, regulatory requirements. Your partner needs to have solved these problems before, not learn on your project.
## Look Beyond the Migration
Migration is just the beginning. What happens after? Does your partner offer managed services? Can they optimize costs? Will they be there when something breaks at 2 AM?
## Technical Depth vs. Vendor Relationships
Some partners are really just resellers with a thin technical veneer. Others have deep engineering capabilities. Ask about their architecture review process and incident response procedures.
## Reference Checks
Talk to their existing customers. Not the logos on their website—actual people who’ve been through a migration with them. Ask what went wrong and how the partner handled it.
## The Questions to Ask
– How many Nigerian enterprise migrations have you completed?
– What’s your approach to data sovereignty and NDPR compliance?
– Can you describe your post-migration support model?
– What happens if we want to move to a different cloud provider later?