Selecting Existing Workloads and Processes to Migrate

Migrating enterprise workloads to the cloud remains one of the most common business cases for most organizations today.

This chapter will discuss some of the common reasons why customers choose to migrate their workloads to the cloud and provide an overview of some of the essential steps required to execute a successful migration. You will also be exploring some commonly adopted migration strategies, along with their pros and cons, and examining the AWS methodology for migrating workloads using the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) programs. Finally, the chapter will conclude with some key best practices to keep in mind before performing any large-scale migrations to the cloud.

The following main topics will be covered in this chapter:

• The need to migrate workloads to the cloud
• Steps for a successful cloud migration
• Migration strategies and their associated pros...