Lower ops costs for both hardware and staff
There's no denying that cloud migration can be a tricky business without expert guidance. But with the right partner, cloud migration doesn't have to be hard.
When you migrate to the cloud, you transition part of your IT resources, often from in-house servers on your premises (so-called “private” infrastructure) in a containerised format to a cloud provider like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or Exoscale.
These providers offer a larger public cloud architecture. But, you can make your IT resources on the cloud as secure and isolated as your private, on-premises setup.
Almost anything on a private, on-premises server can be moved to public cloud infrastructure – whether it’s apps, software, remote desktops, or anything else
You usually end up paying less to maintain your IT resources in the cloud because cloud prices are nearly impossible to beat. This means that even though transferring legacy software and applications to the cloud can be difficult, modernizing legacy apps and transitioning them to the cloud often pays outsized operational dividends.
Once you’re in the cloud, managing your apps as a team becomes straightforward. This is because you’re now able to use a centralizing platform like Divio that combines Cloud Ops and a PaaS. Teams using different stacks and working on different apps would now have a shared hub.
Ideally, your platform choice should make deployment and operations easy and robust. It should also include relevant cloud services, and, to a large extent, make sure that security and compliance are handled for you. This is apart from activity happening inside your application itself.
If you choose Divio, we can also help you with cloud strategy and selection as well as migration planning and execution.
It’s important to remember, there are many ways to handle cloud migration. It isn’t all or nothing. You can migrate all or part of your IT infrastructure.
At Divio, we take special care to give sound advice. We’ll help you strategize about the exact migration and on-cloud mix that’s right for your business and your team.
Talk to all the stakeholders and gather information about specific needs that need to be met, especially for things like security and compliance. This is the most important step to make sure business-critical processes are handled the right way.
It’s a good idea at this point to lay out what your business goals are for a migration and how you will measure your success. Talk with your migration partner about what belongs on the cloud and what has a weaker use case.
Figure out which apps, databases etc. you want to move to the cloud and look for opportunities to cut unnecessary items. Adopt a zero-trust approach to security and begin that transition early.
Make sure your migration partner knows how to handle your proprietary data correctly. There may be unusual or special features of your data or applications that you want them to take special care of. Plan and go through any necessary refactoring and rewriting to get your apps ready for being in the cloud.
With some apps you’ll be able to move them over easily in a single move, others will need to be ramped up over time in waves. But now’s the time when the rubber hits the road.
Now you can reap the benefits of your transition to the cloud. This includes scaling up and down dynamically to meet demand, and proactively evading threats. You’ll also be able to manage and operate all your apps within a single platform, as well as saving big in the long term.