Cloud Migration Testing

Cloud migration approach and assurance

Cloud migration is a process of moving the digital assets such as data, workloads, IT resources (servers, storage, network etc.) or applications to cloud infrastructure though it is well understood in general “cloud migration” conveys moving from “on-prem” to “cloud”, but it also refer to moving from one cloud to another cloud(s), such as moving AWS to Azure.

Types of cloud deployment model

Public cloud.
Private cloud.
Hybrid cloud.
Multi cloud.

Cloud service models

Software as a Service (SaaS).
Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).

Benefits of migrating to the cloud

Elasticity and scalability.
Cost savings and effectiveness.
Move from Capex to Opex model.
Agility and flexibility.
Performance, reliability and resiliency.
Security and compliance.
Less maintenance and simplification of IT.

Challenges

Managing cost.
Complexity.
Dependencies.
Legacy applications.
Databases.
Stakeholder support.
Building cloud fluency.

Types of strategies

Lift and shift.
Move and improve.
Rip and replace.
Repurchasing.
Retiring.
Retaining.
Cloud to cloud migration.
Reverse cloud migration.

Team structure

Account manager.
Solution architect.
Cloud experts.
Functional expert.
Performance expert.
Automation expert.
Functional engineer.
Performance engineer.
Automation engineer.

How do you plan a cloud migration?

Without a correct strategy, it can burn on the finance and also it would not be having desired benefit.

If you are looking for a guide to cloud migration, below are some fundamentals to consider

What is required to be moved?
Why you are moving?
How you are going to do?

Start with the below checklist for clod migration

Evaluate the “why”.
Plan for what is moving and how.
Migrate applications and data.
Modernize and move ahead.

Tools and Services

Amazon Web Service (AWS)

AWS migration hub.
AWS application delivery services.
AWS server migration service.
AWS database migration service.

Microsoft Azure Service

Azure migrate.
Server assessment and server migration.
Data migration assistant.
Azure data migration service.
Azure data box.
Movere.

Google Cloud Platform(GCP)

Transfer service.
Transfer appliance.
Migrate for anthos.
Migrate for compute engine.
BigQuery data transfer service.

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