We're in the process of migrating on-prem apps to cloud. Any best practices to share for cloud integration patterns?

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Director of IT in Software3 years ago

You can start with lift and shift where you identify VMs/Physical servers or databases that can be moved "as is" so you migrate them fairly easy/quickly and achieve quick wins. Leave the applications that require refactoring last as they are more complex and require multiple phases/teams to be included. in the migration. 

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Director ERP Management in Travel and Hospitality3 years ago

Your migration plan would slightly depend on which public cloud you are using but a common pattern would be to migrate a VM or app to test environment and find out the dependencies before hitting the production move.

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no title3 years ago

All major cloud vendors provide solid (but of course generalized) guidance. To use Azure as an example, follow Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) for establishing base infrastructure, governance, and other foundational components; and Well-Architected Framework (WAF) for applications and services design patterns.

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