Cutover Guided Cloud Migration Starter Package

Cutover is an exceptional collaborative platform that has enabled me and my team members to work together seamlessly while building comprehensive, organized, and easy-to-follow runbooks. Its intuitive structure has improved coordination, visibility, and accountability across all our stakeholders, making complex operational and disaster recovery activities significantly easier to manage. Over the years, Cutover has consistently demonstrated its value as the leading solution for disaster recovery planning and execution, providing a centralized, real-time workspace that helps my team members stay aligned and execute critical recovery activities with confidence.

One of Cutover's greatest strengths is the ability to provide visibility into execution and outcomes, allowing us to review results, analyze performance, and identify areas for improvement following each exercise or event. This continuous feedback loop has helped us enhance our procedures, increase efficiency, and strengthen our overall operational readiness.

By combining collaboration, organization, accountability, and post-execution insights, Cutover has become an invaluable tool for our disaster recovery and operational planning efforts. It has significantly improved our ability to execute complex activities with confidence while driving continuous process improvement across our organization.

Cutover has positively impacted my organization through its collaboration capabilities, workflow management, and operational transparency. It has transformed the way our organization builds and manages comprehensive runbooks, streamlining the entire process from assigning appropriate resources and responsibility to aligning tasks with the overall execution timeline, ensuring that all activities are properly coordinated and that my teams clearly understand their roles throughout the process.

One of the strengths of using Cutover in my organization is the ability to provide visibility into execution and outcomes. The platform has allowed us to review results, analyze performance, and identify areas for improvement following each exercise or event. This continuous feedback loop has helped us enhance our procedures, increase efficiency, and strengthen our overall operational readiness.

The best features Cutover offers are collaboration, organization, accountability, and post-execution insights. I also value the intuitive user-friendly interface, real-time workspace, and the centralized capability of runbooks.

The runbooks feature helps my team by enabling us to create runbooks while collaborating together in different projects, making complex operational and disaster recovery activities significantly easier to manage.

The centralized real-time workspace in Cutover helps my team members stay aligned and execute critical recovery activities with confidence.

Although there is not much to dislike about Cutover over the years, I honestly see that it has proven to be a superior product, but the self-service integration capabilities have not always been as turnkey as expected.

Currently, there are limitations around managing multiple self-hosted data source integrations. Administrative capabilities such as user impersonation and emulating user actions would significantly improve troubleshooting, support, and user experience management for the platform administrators.

For non-technical users, the learning curve can be a bit steep, but thanks to customer support, they are able to guide them and walk them through.

I have been using Cutover for the past four years.

Cutover is very stable, as we have experienced no downtime, and the performance has always been very reliable.

Cutover has been able to scale well as my organization grows drastically, particularly in managing complex operations, multiple teams, and business-critical workflows seamlessly.

For me, customer support has been very beneficial, especially during the learning curve, as they provided all the guidance we needed and were very responsive and knowledgeable.

I would rate customer support a nine out of ten.

We switched from Jira.

The reason we switched from PagerDuty to Cutover is that it offers a more structured approach to workflow orchestration, process standardization, and real-time operational visibility.

We valued Cutover's ability to help our teams coordinate activities, manage dependencies, and follow repeatable processes, which made it an attractive option for my organization, especially because we were seeking to improve efficiency and reduce operational complexity at that time.

For my case, it was very easy to deploy Cutover in our AWS environment with the guidance of customer support throughout the setup and configuration process.

My experience with the configuration process was very smooth, and I would say we never ran into any issues because customer support was readily available. The platform provided a structured approach to setting up workflows and defining processes, as well as aligning solutions with our organization's business requirements.

Cutover has delivered a very positive return on investment by improving our operational efficiency, reducing manual coordination, and streamlining complex business processes in my organization. The main benefits for us include fewer manual handoffs, more consistent processes, and reduced risk of costly operational delays.

My experience with the metering and billing was positive, as the licensing arrangements and commercial terms were clearly communicated, making everything manageable.

I value the transparency in pricing, and I would say it is very manageable.

Before choosing Cutover, we evaluated Veeam Data Platform and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

I would rate Cutover a five out of five, as it has been an exceptional platform.

I chose a five for my rating because over the years, Cutover has consistently demonstrated its value as a leading solution for disaster recovery planning and execution.

I am very confident in Cutover's approach to AI governance and security, particularly when it comes to protecting our sensitive data and our customer's data, maintaining transparency, and supporting compliance requirements.

My experience with Cutover's AI capabilities has been very positive, and it has met our expectations. It has particularly supported complex enterprise operations, workflow coordination, and critical process management very easily, helping my team organize information, improve visibility, and make more informed decisions.

Cutover supports enterprise workflows that operate alongside AWS-based environments, which has been very helpful in helping my team coordinate activities and maintain visibility across complex technology operations.

My advice for others looking into using Cutover is that it is a great tool, and I highly recommend it because it has been very useful in managing consistency and repeatability. We are able to expand our operations and introduce additional workflows because it is very scalable. It has improved collaboration between my team members while also reducing the manual effort involved in coordinating complex activities. Therefore, any organization seeking to enhance accountability, coordination, and team collaboration should consider Cutover.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

Flexibility and ability to support a wide variety of recovery procedures through both manual and automated execution steps. The user interface is intuitive, while still providing advanced functionality for experienced practitioners. Integration capabilities enable automation opportunities and connectivity with other enterprise systems. Additionally, the Connect application has proven to be stable and reliable, with timely software updates that regularly deliver quality-of-life improvements and enhanced functionality

What do you dislike about the product?

Self-service integration capabilities have not always been as turnkey as expected, current limitations around managing multiple self-hosted data source integrations, administrative capabilities such as user impersonation ("emulate user") would significantly improve troubleshooting, support, and user experience management for platform administrators, provide customers' dashboards or calculate organization-specific metrics; however, additional API endpoints, reporting datasets, bulk export capabilities, or data warehouse-friendly access patterns

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Architect a resilient enterprise recovery and change management platform for Centene, leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD pipelines, and automation platforms to enable scalable, repeatable, and standardized execution while improving operational recovery outcomes and organizational resilience

What do you like best about the product?

Cutover is an exceptionally collaborative platform that enables teams to work together seamlessly while building comprehensive, organized, and easy-to-follow runbooks. Its intuitive structure improves coordination, visibility, and accountability across all stakeholders, making complex operational and disaster recovery activities significantly easier to manage.

Over the years, Cutover has consistently demonstrated its value as a leading solution for disaster recovery planning and execution. The platform provides a centralized, real-time workspace that helps teams stay aligned and execute critical recovery activities with confidence. Compared to other disaster recovery runbook platforms, Cutover stands out through its collaboration capabilities, workflow management, and operational transparency.

For organizations seeking a reliable and efficient platform to support disaster recovery testing, recovery events, and large-scale operational changes, Cutover has proven to be a superior solution that drives consistency, reduces risk, and enhances overall execution quality.

What do you dislike about the product?

There is not much I dislike of cutover over the years I can honestly say that it has proven to be a superior product.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cutover has transformed the way our organization builds and manages comprehensive runbooks. The platform streamlines the entire process, from assigning the appropriate resources and responsibilities to aligning tasks within the overall execution timeline. This structured approach ensures that all activities are properly coordinated and that teams clearly understand their roles throughout the process.

One of Cutover's greatest strengths is its ability to provide visibility into execution and outcomes. The platform allows us to review results, analyze performance, and identify areas for improvement following each exercise or event. This continuous feedback loop has helped us enhance our procedures, increase efficiency, and strengthen our overall operational readiness.

By combining collaboration, organization, accountability, and post-execution insights, Cutover has become an invaluable tool for our disaster recovery and operational planning efforts. It has significantly improved our ability to execute complex activities with confidence while driving continuous process improvement across the organization.

What do you like best about the product?

I found that Cutover worked hard to truly understand the challenges we were facing, helped us clarify what “excellent” looked like, and then partnered closely with our teams to meet those targets.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not applicable. I would work with them again.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cutover addressed the manual execution risk embedded in our resilience runbooks. By integrating with Ansible and our internal APIs, we achieved a 30% reduction in recovery time during our PoC — reducing both operational risk and the burden on our engineering teams during high-pressure recovery events

I have been using Cutover for over five years. The main use case for Cutover is shifting between tools and the data center. Cutover is a complex base which we executed for shifting between data centers. We performed a very manual process for migration and some setup for AWS workload, keeping business continuity as the priority. We created a connector between the private data center and AWS cloud, and we started shifting the workload in real time in the production environment, starting from one percent to reach 100% of the cutover, and then we shut down all the inventory or servers which were running in the AWS.

Cutover has positively impacted my organization by largely reducing cycle time. Cutover improved my organization's cycles by making things more efficient in terms of compressing the cutover timelines. We achieved around 30% time savings and efficiency after using Cutover.

The best feature Cutover offers is probably the guidance of the strategy. When I mention strategy, I am referring to Cutover's planning part, which includes timelines and responsibilities of POCs, logging the risk with each piece of task, and also monitoring in real time.

As of now, I believe that if an offline survey were provided, I could think of improvements for Cutover. I do not have anything regarding needed improvements or any other suggestions for Cutover at this time.

I have been working in my current field for over three years.

Cutover helped make that process smoother compared to the manual way we did it before by providing automation and predicting the impact. At the same time, we had a prediction mechanism which was very helpful.

I chose nine as my rating for Cutover because it did largely fetch all the aspects.

I purchased Cutover through the AWS Marketplace. My advice for others looking into using Cutover is to adopt it at the initial time of the migration plan rather than putting it in at the last moment to fill the gaps. I gave Cutover a rating of 9 out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

What do you like best about the product?

Very flexible in it's ability to support technical and business workflows, feature rich interface.

What do you dislike about the product?

Interface can feel quite 'click heavy' and not the smoothest or most intuitive when adding in lots of manual steps.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Addressing the lack of co-ordination in multi team activities like DR and business migrations.

What do you like best about the product?

Very well designed making for easy user access and understanding, and great visualisation when presenting Runbook status to others.

What do you dislike about the product?

Could make things easier to have an option for aligning task ID in Cutover to task ID in Excel.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Main benefit and use case for us is visibility of tasks. Prevents task from slipping/ being forgotten about and is an objective way of communicating progress

What do you like best about the product?

Cutover has an excellent customer support service. it provides real time updates and tracking processing. it also has a clear user interface and guidance on its workflow page.

What do you dislike about the product?

nothing major other than some modification in regards to setup for a better workflow

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

it allows stakeholders and users to merge resources and does make auditing easy for detailed analysis and ensures improvement for recovery.

What do you like best about the product?

it provides real time visibility for production technology transitions

What do you dislike about the product?

Complex for new users. and definitly need some trainings

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Help us patch servers with minimal down time and no data lost