Cloud Migration Strategy

Explore how migrating to cloud reduces costs by eliminating on-premises infrastructure, while providing robust services and global reach, and why a cloud migration strategy is essential.

Assess on a case-by-case basis whether to migrate to the cloud, weighing feasibility, security, privacy, regulatory factors, organization type, data use, and business goals.

Explore cloud security and its issues, balancing human and technological factors while noting trust, compliance, service level agreements (sla), social engineering, and virtualization as key risk areas.

Identify privacy issues in cloud migration, including data center location, regulatory differences, data breaches, CSP dependency, and data deletion challenges.

The lecture outlines four cloud migration approaches—re-adjusting (lift and shift), platforming, repurchasing, and refactoring or re-architecting—and emphasizes tradeoffs and the need for a feasibility study before migration.

Identify key cloud migration factors, including workforce skills and training needs, migration and ongoing costs, CSP technology capabilities, and security and privacy considerations, to evaluate long-term cost effectiveness.

Present a strategic framework for cloud migration, evaluating organizational feasibility, security, privacy, disaster recovery, risk management, and cost, then selecting CSPs and migration approaches to minimize risk during execution.

Assess whether to move to the cloud as a strategic decision, not just a technical one, and formulate a robust cloud migration framework addressing security, privacy, and other factors.