Cloud migration is the processing of moving data or completely deploying an organization’s assets into the cloud environment.
Nowadays cloud adaption growth is ultimate, migrating to the cloud is one of the major business in the cloud market.
Some basic steps involved in Cloud Migration:
1.Migration and business planning:
In existing applications, data and architecture, etc are considered
It can be planned for suitable tools in the market for easy to work.
Example: AWS application services, Cloud Physics
2.Server & DB migration
In smaller applications are the order of design and validations process
After getting information migration process can be accelerated.
Example AWS server and DB migration
3. Dependencies and migration strategies:
some applications are dependencies and type of certain migration strategies .
Example : S3 transfer acceleration
4. Cloud-based operations:
Normally cloud-based operations after migration can be resumed.
Example : Cloud Watch
Cloud migration strategies are major:
1.Re-platform
For example: Migrate from WebLogic server to an open source platform Apache Tomcat running on a Virtual machine.
In cloud mostly used AWS Elastic Beanstalk
2.Refactor
In re – factor, applications are redeveloped. It needs to good architecture with target platform for performance, scaling etc.
3.Re-host
In this approach, the infrastructure configuration of the application will be redeployed into new host environment.