Cloud migration strategies
After carefully evaluating and understanding the IT landscape, the most crucial phase of cloud transformation for enterprises is embarking on a migration. Earlier in this chapter, we reviewed the value-complexity matrix, which can help you pick the right workloads for cloud migration. In this section, we will discuss the different cloud migration strategies that enterprises can leverage.
The 6 R’s application migration strategies
In 2010, Gartner published the 5 Rs approach for migrating applications to the cloud – Rehost, Refactor, Revise, Rebuild, and Replace [5]. Since then, several other R migration strategies have been floated, such as AWS’ 6 Rs, Citrix’s 7 Rs, and Infosys’ 8 Rs. However, the core objective is to provide guidance on the various strategies that organizations can leverage while migrating applications to the cloud. Over the years, the cloud migration strategies evolved into what we more commonly...
