Cloud & DevOpsMarch 2024 • 7 min read

The Complete Guide to Cloud Migration: Strategies, Pitfalls & ROI

A roadmap for migrating legacy workloads to AWS, Azure or GCP without surprise bills or operational disruption.

Migrating enterprise workloads from on-premises data centers to the cloud is a fundamental transformation that unlocks agility, scalability, and disaster resilience when executed methodically.

The 6 R's Migration Framework: Evaluate each legacy system against the six proven migration strategies: Rehost (lift and shift), Replatform (lift and reshape), Repurchase (drop and shop), Refactor (re-architect), Retain, or Retire.

Security and Infrastructure as Code: Enforce governance and compliance from day one using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/OpenTofu) with pre-configured security guardrails, VPC peering, and encryption-at-rest standards.

FinOps and Cost Predictability: Avoid unexpected cloud bills by establishing automated resource tagging, anomaly detection alerts, reserved instance commitments, and scheduled environment shutdowns for non-production environments.

Byline: Agora Global Engineering Team. Replace with a named author and role when available.
Published: March 2024
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