How do I migrate Shopify Plus to Magento on AWS Toronto?
Migrating from Shopify Plus to Magento 2 on AWS Toronto is a typical 6-10 week project. The phases:
- Audit (week 1), export the Shopify catalog, customer base, order history, theme assets, and current apps. Map each Shopify app to a Magento equivalent (or built-in feature)
- AWS setup (week 1-2), provision ca-central-1 with multi-AZ, RDS MySQL 8.0, ElastiCache Redis, OpenSearch, S3 for media, CloudFront CDN. Latency target < 20ms for ON / QC users
- Magento install + theme (week 2-5), we typically recommend Hyvä for the new theme (Lighthouse 95+, EN/FR storeview). Replicate the Shopify look or upgrade the design
- Data migration (week 5-6), products, customers (with re-hashing of passwords on first login), orders (read-only history), URL redirects (Shopify slug → Magento URL key)
- Payment + shipping + tax wiring (week 6-7), Stripe / Moneris / Interac, Canada Post, Vertex per-province tax
- UAT (week 7-8), full regression + load test
- Cutover (week 8-9), DNS flip, blue-green deploy, Shopify stays as read-only fallback for 30 days
- Stabilise (week 9-10), bug fixes, post-launch performance tune, SEO recovery monitoring
Total cost typically USD $15-40k depending on data volume and customisations. Shopify monthly fees disappear, AWS hosting runs ~$300-800/mo for mid-market.