Akamai Identity Cloud shuts down on December 31, 2027, and most teams are asked to put a migration number in their budget well before they know what they are actually moving. In this 20-minute teardown, Next Reason — Akamai's designated migration Center of Excellence — joins Auth0 to unpack the hidden data relationships, third-party hooks, and schema complexities that move migration estimates more than anything else.
What you will learn in 20 minutes
The hidden architecture — what actually drives the real cost and timeline of leaving Akamai Identity Cloud.
User impact — how to identify social-only and MFA users who risk lock-out during cutover.
Destination readiness — how Auth0 accommodates complex legacy schemas without forcing app rewrites.
Defensible budgeting — the questions to ask your own environment before committing to a budget line item.
Planning an AIC migration?
Next Reason provides identity services and is Akamai's designated Center of Excellence for customer identity migrations. Get in touch at nextreason.com/contact.
Presenters
Mason Mobley, Sr. Regional Marketing Specialist at Okta, and Jeshtha Kambli, Senior Solution Engineer at Okta, with Haley Lovett, Principal Solutions Architect at Next Reason.
