Cloud Migration: A Low-Risk Assessment and Migration Methodology

Cloud migration is more than copying servers to a new provider. Inventory applications, databases, integrations, and dependencies, classify business criticality, calculate total cost, and identify compliance and data residency requirements.

Choose the right strategy per system: rehost for speed, replatform for managed services, or refactor for cloud scalability. Migrate in waves, test performance, security, and recovery, and prepare a rollback plan. After migration, monitor cost, availability, latency, and resource utilization.