Cloud Migration Strategy – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation
Cloud Migration Strategy
The proportion of IT spending shifting to the cloud is accelerating. With predictions, over 45% of system infrastructure, infrastructure software, application software, and more will move from traditional solutions to the cloud by 2024. Migrating to AWS Cloud makes your organization more innovative by enabling them to experiment and be agile. The ability to move fast and achieve business values quickly for your users is what truly matters for your company’s cloud migration.By migrating your digital assets to the cloud, you can gain better insights from your data, innovate faster, modernize aging infrastructure, scale globally, and restructure organizational models to create better customer experiences. Often, cost reduction is one of the primary drivers of migrating workloads to the cloud. In practice, organizations regularly see the value of migration going well beyond the cost savings from retiring legacy infrastructure.As you have started to discover, there are additional tasks you can perform in addition to migrating workflows to the cloud. What tasks should be performed and when they should be done will depend on the available budget, staff technical expertise, and leadership buy-in.It is hard to create discrete cohorts to classify these tasks since they are more of a continuum. Having said this, and without further ado, let’s attempt to create a classification nonetheless. Keep in mind that this classification is not meant to be dogmatic. You may run into other ways to classify this migration. Additionally, you may be able to mix and match the approaches, depending on your needs. For example, your CRM application may be moved without changing it. But perhaps your accounting software was built in-house, and now you want to use a vendor-enabled solution such as QuickBooks Online.AWS use a three-phase approach that integrates modernization into the migration transition. AWS’s three-phase process, along with the seven migration patterns, helps provide the guiding principles for structuring the cloud migration journey so you can quickly realize continuous, quantifiable business value. Let’s look at this pattern in the three-phase migration process.
