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3 Best Practices To Make Cloud Migration Easier

Cloud migration. It’s a term that comes up in most enterprise conversations at least once. While the term represents the practice of moving from on-premises infrastructure to cloud infrastructure, what is meant by “cloud migration” has evolved. Cloud migration is no longer as simple as moving from on-prem servers to AWS EC2. It could include moving to managed databases or API gateways, or maybe you need AWS for some workloads and Azure for others. Perhaps you’re a financial or public sector organization, and you need a private cloud. Or maybe you need to meet special regulatory requirements.

In this article, we’re going to look at three best practices for making cloud migration easier for your enterprise:

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The Cloud Challenge: Choice Paralysis and the Bad Strategy of “On-Premising” the Cloud

The cloud is vast. It is natural that we look at the cloud and understand it through the narrow lens of our previous experiences. This can translate into solutions that underutilize/overutilize one area of the cloud over other areas. Innovative and robust solutions often require the use of the full spectrum.

Most companies are migrating to the cloud because they want to unlock new business opportunities, but many of them stumble because they continue to build solutions that are only suitable for on-premises. Imagine your IT workloads are on servers that sit in the basement of your corporate office. Would moving these servers to the first floor of that office open any new opportunities for your business? Of course not. Lifting and shifting your servers to the cloud might save you money, but it certainly won’t take you any further. The first and most important thing to remember about the cloud is that the cloud is not a place, it is a model. Building for the cloud requires a mindset change, not a location change. 

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On-Prem vs the Cloud: Comparing the Cost of Configuring for High Availability

Any way you look at it, configuring SQL Server for high availability involves the cost of redundant infrastructure. If you need your SQL Server data to be available 99.99% of the time and the infrastructure supporting your database goes offline — for whatever reason — you need backup infrastructure that can take over immediately.

But the costs of deploying a high availability infrastructure on-premises vs. in the cloud are very different and it’s important to understand those differences in order to achieve the high availability assurances you seek at the optimal cost to your organization.