Cloud Migration best practices -part 1

This blog series will discuss the best practices employed by our technical team when they are engaging into a cloud migration project. These guidelines have been developed over the years, based on hundreds of workload migrated to Azure and GCP.

First mover identification

We’ll look for first movers(workloads that can be moved first) by aggregating the data from the automation inventory tools and from the interviews with app owners. 

Here are a few factors to take in consideration when you are trying to decide what can you move to the cloud first.

  • High business value but not mission critical
  • Not a POC
  • Are not edge cases
  • Can be used to build a knowledge base
  • Are managed by central teams
  • Have supportive app or line of business owner who likes spearheading new and innovative projects
  • High business value but not mission critical
  • Not a POC
  • Are not edge cases
  • Can be used to build a knowledge base
  • Are managed by central teams
  • Have supportive app or line of business owner who likes spearheading new and innovative projects

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