Migrating to the Cloud: An Overview of Process and Strategy

This blog provides an overview of cloud migration, covering key benefits, risks, and choices across storage types, service models, and deployment styles, and compares approaches such as lift-and-shift, refactoring, and cloud-native redesign. It emphasizes the shared responsibility model, security and compliance considerations (including use of CIS Hardened Images), and common reasons migrations fail—highlighting the importance of careful data classification and protection, right-sizing, and phased adoption to achieve resiliency, agility, and cost efficiency.