Accelerate Your Cloud Migration Journey With Cloud Assessment Technology

Ankur Kumar
Engineered @ Publicis Sapient
4 min readJun 4, 2021

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Context

Cloud migration is the top priority for IT executives as per the survey by leading research firms. Gartner (in their technology trends 2021) and SaaS vendors like Flexera (published 2021 State of Cloud Report) have predicted that COVID-19 has accelerated Cloud migration plans and the key message coming out as:

Accelerated Cloud Migration is the need of the hour and continues to be the top priority as a strategic initiative for 2021 and beyond.

With Cloud Migration as a key priority, the initial stage of the journey starts with the Cloud assessment phase, and many organizations face challenges to accelerate at this early stage itself.

Current State Assessment Challenge

The first step of Cloud migration assessment starts with the current state assessment, and the formulation of the target state (inc. selection of Cloud-native services) happens incrementally. Current state assessment itself is a time-consuming process as most of the organizations do not have updated current state documented for a variety of reasons. Additionally, in order for executives to agree upon a future state for each application by applying a Cloud migration strategy like Amazon 6R cloud migration, the Cloud…

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Ankur Kumar
Engineered @ Publicis Sapient

Engineering lead | Experimentalist & Enabler | Blogs abt Cloud, Software Architecture, Microservices, Data Platforms, Cloud-native, DevOps, Opensource, Caching