Overview
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Review the key design considerations for any migration strategy—whether you're migrating to Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, or Google Cloud Platform.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Planning a cloud migration
- What you should know
- Identify migration goals
- Types of migrations
- Cost considerations
- The five phases of migration
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Infrastructure and logical considerations
- Which applications should be rehosted?
- Performance considerations
- Estimating costs
- Is it better to migrate or rebuild?
- What is replatforming?
- Advantages of replatforming
- Some potential issues with replatforming
- Identifying good candidates for replatforming
- Why transition to SaaS?
- The advantages of a SaaS migration
- Potential disadvantages of SasS migration
- Important considerations
- The case for application refactoring
- Modernizing a refactored application
- Why retiring an application may be the best option
- Identifying applications that can be retired
- Are your goals still relevant?
- Building a plan of attack
- Considerations for IT pros
- Why it is fine to leave some applications alone?
- Where should I begin?
- Next steps
