Although cloud computing has been around for more than a decade, teams usually struggle when it comes to cloud migration in Abu Dhabi or cloud migration in SA. Though most of the teams improvise and learn from their failure to succeed in subsequent attempts, the process will become easier if one follows these steps:

Establish the role of the migration-architect: This role is responsible to complete and plan all aspects of the migration with the core responsibility being designing strategies, defining cloud requirements, determining migration priorities, and producing switchover mechanisms. This role is critical for the success of the project.

Choose your cloud integration level: This can be of two types, shallow cloud integration or deep cloud integration. A shallow integration makes limited or even no changes to the servers to run the application as they do not use services unique to the cloud. The deep cloud integration uses dynamic load balancing and auto-scaling to use the serverless capabilities of computing.

Choose one or multi-cloud: This depends on whether you want your application to run on a single environment or you want it to run on multiple cloud providers. Single cloud integration is simpler than a multi-cloud but has the downside if the vendor faces any problems down the line. A single cloud will also negatively impact your ability to negotiate effectively.

Establish cloud KPIs: Setting your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) will help you measure the performance through suitable metrics as per your expectations. The best KPIs should be able to provide information on the in-process migration and provide insights into problems that may be lurking inside your application. These will also help you create a timeline for a successful migration.

Establish performance baselines: A baseline will help you measure the current performance and its future acceptable performance. It will also help diagnose any problems as they arise.

Prioritize components for migration: Depending upon the needs of your organization, you may want to migrate everything in one-go or component by component. Both options have their pros and cons and one should evaluate the requirement against each of these options before committing to the method.

Perform refactoring: This step refers to any work that you may have to do on your services or application before migration to make them work efficiently and effectively on the cloud.

Create a migration plan: This is the trickiest part of the entire operation as the location of your data can impact the performance of the application significantly. One may choose between a bi-directional syncing, an on-premise database, or vendor-based cloud migration. Pay close attention to the plan before you start migration is the difference between a successful migration or a failure.

Switch-over production: The complexity and the architecture of your application in terms of their datastores will answer this question for your migration work. Some organizations prefer the migration to happen in a single shot while others opt for smaller chunks, test them, and then move more items.

Review application resource allocation: Once everything is on the cloud, one needs to consider resource optimization. Any cloud migration in Abu Dhabi optimizes for dynamic allocation of resources. Teams also need to have a plan for distributing resources to the migrated application. Most cloud migration in SA vendors will also allocate additional resources to an application virtually at a moment’s notice if your application supports dynamic scaling.