The “First” Cloud Migration — Items to Think Through

Cloud Migration is getting ubiquitous now a days. Every Enterprise is attempting to move their workload to Cloud because of — Fast Innovation, Digital Transformation (Yeah, Covid-19 is highly responsible for this now), Scalability, On-Premise Data Center getting closed (yeah, this one is also common now a days 😅 ), Cost, and many more reasons. Many of them have mastered the Art of Migration, but for Enterprises who are doing it for the 1st time, they need to think through quite a few things.

There are multiple articles available to highlight the Migration Strategies. One of them published by AWS is — https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/6-strategies-for-migrating-applications-to-the-cloud/. Do take a look at this and other similar articles.

Going a bit off the track — I generally ask this one question to the Application Team who is planning to migrate the workload to Cloud— Is the Workload to be Migrated is Cloud Ready !!!

The answer to this question helps the team to freeze on the Migration Strategy to execute (Remember the 6 R’s, sorry its 7 R’s now !!!), thought to put here to set some ground. Well the intent of this question is — would your current Application Architecture help you reap the benefits offered by the Cloud? Does it meet all the standards required in terms of Security, Compliance, etc. for your application to be hosted in Public Cloud? Is the current Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) acceptable? If yes, lucky…