Planning your cloud migration: A 10-step cloud migration checklist
Blog post from New Relic
The text provides a comprehensive guide on successfully migrating enterprise applications to the cloud, highlighting common challenges and lessons learned from past experiences to avoid repeating mistakes. It outlines a 10-step cloud migration checklist, which includes establishing a migration architect role, deciding on the level of cloud integration, choosing between single or multi-cloud strategies, and defining cloud KPIs and performance baselines. The guide further delves into prioritizing migration components, performing necessary refactoring, creating a data-migration plan, and reviewing application resource allocation, emphasizing the importance of securing cloud environments and understanding cloud costs. The text also suggests adopting modern application-building practices, such as using DevOps methods and employing tools like New Relic for monitoring cloud systems to improve application performance and customer experience.