Guiding your organization through the next technological wave of intelligent work requires a platform built to scale innovation and accelerate cross-functional collaboration. The Atlassian Cloud Platform delivers that future today, with the context-rich Teamwork Graph and embedded AI experiences on an enterprise-grade foundation engineered for security and scale. Atlassian Cloud breaks silos to unlock faster decision-making, operational alignment, and the agility needed to bring high-impact ideas to market.
For our enterprise customers still on Data Center, Atlassian’s FastShift program helps accelerate your cloud upgrade process and champion cloud adoption and success.
FastShift turns your cloud upgrade into a strategic advantage
Your Data Center environment likely powers thousands of users, mission-critical data, intricate permissions, and deep third-party integrations. Upgrading these critical deployments to Atlassian Cloud requires a deliberate strategy to safeguard business continuity while unlocking the connected power and intelligence of the Atlassian Cloud Platform.
Today, Atlassian Cloud can meet the demands of any organizational scale and it’s built on a foundation that is secure by design. Backed by enterprise-grade capabilities, including granular data protection, resilience capabilities, robust regional data residency, and centralized governance, Atlassian Cloud ensures your mission-critical data remains secure and compliant from day one.
To help the largest enterprises take advantage of these cloud capabilities, we created FastShift — a high-touch, curated support model designed to accelerate enterprise cloud transformations. Drawing on years of hands-on migration experience, Atlassian brings the strategies, processes, and technical expertise to help the largest customers move to cloud safely and efficiently. A year after launch, we’ve added refined playbooks and dedicated tooling to further accelerate migrations and support cloud success.
Through a hands-on partnership and shared accountability, we navigate complex data shapes, deep project hierarchies, and critical customizations with minimal disruption. By sharing the heavy lifting, FastShift enables your internal teams to focus on high-impact priorities, such as adopting cloud-native workflows and AI capabilities faster.
Fastshift at a glance
FastShift helps eligible Data Center customers, who need to migrate 1,000 or more users, upgrade to the Cloud at no additional cost. FastShift’s guidance from Atlassian Delivery Managers and Migration Support Engineers helps you get to the cloud sooner and see value from day one.
How FastShift accelerates cloud transformation and success
Leverage Atlassian expertise, at no cost
FastShift provides your organization with access to dedicated Atlassian migration expertise at no additional cost. Delivery Managers and Migration Support Engineers help your organization navigate advanced tooling, marketplace app considerations, and the decisions involved in a large-scale cloud upgrade.
Instead of having your internal teams navigate a cloud upgrade for the first time, you gain access to specialists who routinely manage enterprise migrations across tens of thousands of users and intricate self-managed architectures. This dedicated partnership simplifies your path to Cloud while accelerating time to value.
Accelerate time to value
Working with the FastShift program typically accelerates the journey to cloud by 2-3x, streamlining migration journeys from 12-16 months to roughly 2-6 months. With a dedicated FastShift team keeping decisions moving and surfacing blockers early, your organization frees up valuable team capacity, resources, and energy to focus on more strategic priorities like change management, user adoption, and aligning the upgrade with overall business priorities.
Beyond execution speed, FastShift also prepares organizations to rapidly capitalize on modern ways of working. Within months, FastShift participants can achieve 80-90% cloud adoption rates, helping teams leverage interconnected workflows, intelligent automations, and AI agents powered by the contextual intelligence of the Teamwork Graph.
Shift organization capacity from maintenance to transformation
We’ve seen that cloud upgrades deliver their greatest value when they fundamentally change how an organization operates, extending beyond end-user productivity to redefine how technology teams drive value. When IT teams are no longer tethered to server patching, maintenance, and manual upgrades, their focus pivots from keeping the lights on to accelerating strategic outcomes.
With FastShift guiding the upgrade, admins have support to help them manage edge cases and eliminate post-migration fire drills. That operational breathing room allows them to quickly step into their roles as proactive enablers of governance, security, and automation, giving teams the freedom to innovate safely at scale.
Expedia Group: Turning migration into a foundation for innovation
As Expedia Group scaled its global travel business, its Atlassian environment had grown to include more than 1,000 Jira projects and 12,000 Confluence spaces, alongside a broad mix of tools and customizations.
Managing that environment created more work for admins, made it harder for teams to stay connected, and limited the business’s ability to scale and adapt. After building its business case, Expedia used FastShift to access Atlassian expertise, accelerate its timeline, and establish a stronger foundation for cloud value.
Moving 55% faster than originally expected, Expedia upgraded to cloud in just three months. Since then, Expedia has shifted more attention away from infrastructure maintenance and toward strategic initiatives, automation, governance, and AI-powered capabilities.
The FastShift program was a key turning point for us. During a three-day, onsite workshop, we were able to resolve the technical blockers and nail down the strategy of the migration, which gave us confidence and reduced pre-flight checks from six hours to eight minutes.”
– Himanshu Singh, Engineering Manager at Expedia Group
Beyond Expedia, FastShift has guided similar transformations across a wide range of complex environments, from migrating 140,000+ users at a heavily regulated financial institution with strict data residency mandates to helping a large media company consolidate multiple fragmented Data Center deployments into a single Cloud site after a merger. Rather than shying away from complexity, our team thrives on tackling these puzzles alongside our customers, turning unique challenges into shared wins.
Why FastShift is better than ever
FastShift continues to evolve based on direct customer feedback and experiences supporting enterprise upgrades. We’ve designed recent enhancements to strengthen technical guidance, improve visibility, and assist our largest environments in upgrading with greater confidence.
We’ve expanded the dedicated expertise behind every cloud upgrade. Delivery Managers now play a broader, hands-on role across the entire migration lifecycle, with more guidance across planning, readiness, and execution. We now also have Forward Deployed Engineers available to step in and provide additional expertise in complex migration scenarios.
FastShift participants gain access to enterprise-grade migration tooling and platform enhancements built specifically to handle large-scale complexity. Throughout the journey, the FastShift Portal anchors the entire engagement, providing real-time tracking, resource access, and visibility, making it easier than ever to upgrade to Cloud with confidence.
Build the foundation for what’s next
Leading your organization into this next technological era of intelligent work requires prioritizing new ways of working, strategic alignment, and thoughtful implementation, rather than getting weighed down by the complexity of the move itself. FastShift alleviates that operational headache, partnering with you from initial planning through final cutover and adoption. Together, we help you transform an infrastructure migration into a long-term strategic win by providing the technical expertise, enterprise-grade tooling, and shared delivery accountability.
Ready to accelerate your cloud vision into measurable value? Visit the FastShift website to learn more about the program and its eligibility requirements.
