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Cloud migration planning

Cloud migration planning

- To ensure an effective and successful migration to the cloud, you need to create a detailed plan. The time you invest working up a plan and defining needed resources will provide savings in the later portions of the project, and you know that you will learn as you go. For most, this will be your first time navigating a cloud migration, so don't be afraid to make mistakes and forgive those who do. These seven ways to move applications to the cloud are a great guide for planning your migration, also known as the 7 Rs. Replace means that were replacing the software with a SaaS solution. Reuse means that we're dividing up the application as sets of services and then leveraging those services for other applications. Refactor means that we're altering the applications to be more cloud native and thus, more efficient. Replatform means that we're placing the application on a different cloud platform than the traditional system of origin. Rehost means that we're lifting and shifting, which…

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