Playbooks
Migration playbooks
The deep, senior-level strategy guides, the 6 Rs, a phase-by-phase roadmap, choosing between lift-and-shift and refactoring, and cutting over with zero downtime. Start here if you are planning the whole move.
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Cloud Migration Strategy: The 6 Rs, and How to Pick One per Application
Rehost, replatform, repurchase, refactor, retire, retain, what each migration strategy costs, when it applies, and how to assign one to every app.
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A Step-by-Step Cloud Migration Roadmap (with Checklists)
A phase-by-phase cloud migration roadmap, assess, plan, pilot, migrate, optimize, with a checklist for each phase and realistic timelines.
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Lift-and-Shift vs Replatform vs Refactor: The Real Tradeoffs
The three ways to move an app to the cloud, compared on cost, risk, and time-to-value, plus a decision framework and worked numbers for each path.
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How to Migrate to the Cloud with Zero Downtime
Blue-green environments, database replication, DNS traffic shifting, and rollback, the four techniques that let you migrate without taking users offline.