Moving to the cloud without a strategy is like renovating a house without plans. It can get expensive and messy.
Common Migration Mistakes
- Lifting and shifting without optimisation
- Underestimating costs
- Ignoring security implications
- No training for staff
- Migrating everything at once
The 6 Rs of Migration
- Rehost: Lift and shift to cloud as-is
- Replatform: Minor optimisations during migration
- Refactor: Rearchitect for cloud-native
- Repurchase: Move to SaaS alternative
- Retain: Keep on-premise for now
- Retire: Decommission
Planning Your Migration
- Audit your current infrastructure
- Classify applications by migration approach
- Prioritise based on business value and complexity
- Build a phased timeline
- Plan for training and change management
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