# Phase 1: Discovery and assessment
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**Considering migration** **scope of 1 cluster \| 100\+ applications. The following table** **represents the discovery and assesment effort.**


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| Activity | Effort (Hours) | 
| --- |--- |
| Current state infrastructure documentation | 40 | 
| Application inventory and categorization | 60 | 
| Dependency mapping (internal and external) | 80 | 
| Security policy and RBAC review | 40 | 
| Storage and persistent volume assessment | 32 | 
| Network topology analysis | 40 | 
| CI/CD pipeline inventory | 24 | 
| Compliance and regulatory requirement gathering | 24 | 
| Stakeholder interviews (app owners, ops teams) | 40 | 
| Risk assessment and mitigation planning | 32 | 
| Discovery report and sign-off | 16 | 

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS Prescriptive Guidance. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query prescriptive-guidance` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).