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.
Here are a few of the application related questions/details that can be asked/identified during the planning phase of the cloud migration:
| Application owner |
| Brief description |
| Application type |
| Hosted location (Private, Public, On-prem) |
| Hosted model (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) |
| Required compliance |
| Required SLA |
| Application monitoring |
| Maintenance window allowed |
| Maintenance window length |
| Maintenance window schedule start |
| Change management process and lead time |
| Change freeze window(s) |
| Application business priority |
| Offline business impact |
| Maximum allowed offline time |
| Migration risk |
| Rollback plan |
| Cutover strategy and executer |
| Recovery time objective |
| Recovery point objective |
| Backup requirements |
| Party responsible for backups |
| GCP backup plan |
| Disaster recovery plan |
| Host name |
| Components (DB, caching, proxy, LB, etc) |
| External dependencies |
| Required licenses |
| Shared services |
| External download data size and frequency |
| External upload data size and frequency |
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