One of the most common concerns when moving to the cloud is cost. Given that cloud allows you to turn IT costs from CAPEX (long-term investments ex. in hardware equipment and software licenses) into OPEX (day-to-day operating expenses), it’s crucial to choose the right service and estimate it properly. In this article, we’ll look at the common pitfalls and discuss how you can avoid them to truly benefit from the cloud’s elasticity.
#1 Following the Lift and Shift Approach
The lift and shift approach means that you are moving an exact copy of your workload to the cloud with as few changes as possible. Even though this pattern may be useful if you want to move to the cloud quickly, it may lead to suboptimal usage of your resources. AWS acknowledged that this is a difficult problem by creating services to make this migration easier (CloudEndure Migration and AWS Server Migration Service). Still, for the best possible resource utilization, it’s best to consider rearchitecting your solution for the cloud.