AWS Classroom Series – 29/June/2021

Application Migration Strategies

• Organizations build/use applications. To Run these applications, we need servers.

• Our Organizations might use Physical Servers/ Virtual Machines to run applications

• When organizations want to use cloud they have two high level strategies

  • Cloud Migration
  • Cloud Native

• Consider some application running on-premises

• Cloud Migration:

  • Advantage:
    • Quickest Way to move to cloud
  • Disadvantage:
    • You will not be getting all advantages of cloud

• Cloud Native

  • Advantage:
    • Effective usage of cloud services
  • Disadvantage:
    • This takes time.

• To Perform Cloud Migration, AWS has an approach 6 R’s of Application Migration

  • Re-host
  • Re-platform
  • Re-factor
  • Re-purchase
  • Retire
  • Retain