Cloud Migration Planning & Checklist

So, when you have decided you need to migrate to cloud, that is great! Cloud migration will help take your business, application, and you to the next level. To make sure things go right for your cloud migration, I have created a step-by-step plan and checklist to help you in your cloud migration journey.

Cloud Migration Planning

In previous blog we have discussed various cloud migration strategies and for a successful cloud migration, a step-by-step plan should be adopted to validate everything is working properly. Here ar the points you should take care of while crafting your cloud migration plan.

• Identify the use, requirements, and the architectural concepts of the platform and how to deliver.
• You need to decide what cloud environment model you need to adopt. It can be a hybrid cloud, private cloud, or public cloud and it should be decided considering your current and future roadmap.
• You should go through the security concerns when you are migrating your application and its data, you need to comply with the security policies and planning or data recovery or backup.
• Your migration plan should include project roadmap, project metrics and services. What is going to affect and who will be most affected by making such changes from the migration, all these things should be included.

Once the planning is in place, next is the checklist which will help you track the progress.

Cloud Migration Checklist

A checklist needs to be prepared, so that it can help in tracking all the necessary transitions and we can check if all our tasks are completed or not. To help organizations we have finalized some crucial areas needed to be considered for an effective cloud migration journey.