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I work in an enterprise software ecosystem and on current version (something we call the converged platform), we are getting our SaaS customers upgraded to Aurora from previous SQL DB. It’s just what our DevOps calls a “life and shift upgrade” (whatever the heck that means coz the issues that entails it gives us a hard time)

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Lift and Shift — move an application from one environment to another with minimal architecture changes. The difficulty comes when you have built-in assumptions that can’t be replicated to the new environment. Some good examples would be clusters that rely on floating ips, ARP, interface bonding, SCSI, or multicast.

Over the years cloud providers have added these features but they weren’t always available and definitely not something you would reach for in a cloud native setup.

Lift and shift probably - means to move as is.

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