Migrations

Question 1

Describe the different types of ways companies can move to the cloud and when you’d use each.

Answer 1

Lift and shift - migrating your application from the source to the target environment with little to no modification or refactoring. You’d use this when your application can operate as-is in the target environment or there’s no business need to change.

Improve and move - refactoring your workload to leverage cloud-native technology. You’d use this if the current architecture or infrastructure for your app isn’t supported in the target environment, or if a considerable amount of work needs to be done to migrate the app.

Rip and replace -