> You don't even have to be that big -- at one point Azure offered to provide full time engineers to help reddit move from AWS and that was many years ago when reddit was a lot smaller.
I know HN dislikes sales folks (me, too), but they're often a decent, relatively quick gateway to getting a fair amount of work of this sort done for free, if it's part of getting you onto some kind of recurring billing situation and you have more than a paltry amount of money on the table. Like, you don't have to be a fortune 500 to get this kind of service.
Providers that suck at this also usually have trash support, when you eventually need to use it, so asking for this kind of high-touch onboarding assistance up-front even if you don't strictly need it can also help sort wheat from chaff.
I know HN dislikes sales folks (me, too), but they're often a decent, relatively quick gateway to getting a fair amount of work of this sort done for free, if it's part of getting you onto some kind of recurring billing situation and you have more than a paltry amount of money on the table. Like, you don't have to be a fortune 500 to get this kind of service.
Providers that suck at this also usually have trash support, when you eventually need to use it, so asking for this kind of high-touch onboarding assistance up-front even if you don't strictly need it can also help sort wheat from chaff.