AuthorZERO-D TeamEditorial reviewZERO-D TeamUpdated
A safe cloud migration combines application knowledge, automated infrastructure, security controls and an operating model for day two.
Understand dependencies and risk
Inventory, criticality, integrations and recovery requirements guide the migration strategy.
Automate infrastructure
Infrastructure as code and pipelines make environments reproducible and auditable.
Plan operations and costs
Responsibilities, alerts, security, capacity and financial governance should be defined before go-live.
Questions about cloud, devops & security
Which workloads should move first?
Start with bounded workloads that provide learning without exposing critical operations.
How can cloud cost be controlled?
Use ownership, tagging, budgets, alerts and architecture reviews from the beginning.
What must be tested before cutover?
Security, performance, recovery, observability, data integrity and rollback procedures.