Cloud Migration Guide: Strategies, Steps & Cost Optimization
How to migrate to the cloud successfully — the 6 R’s, a step-by-step plan, and FinOps practices to keep costs under control.
Cloud migration promises scalability and agility — but done poorly it can blow up costs and reliability. This guide walks through proven strategies, a step-by-step plan, and how to control spend from day one.
The 6 R’s of migration
- Rehost (lift-and-shift)
- Replatform (lift-tinker-and-shift)
- Refactor (re-architect cloud-native)
- Repurchase (move to SaaS)
- Retire (decommission)
- Retain (keep on-prem for now)
A step-by-step plan
Assess and inventory workloads, define target architecture, migrate low-risk workloads first, automate with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD, then optimize. Validate reliability and security at each phase.
Controlling cloud costs (FinOps)
Right-size resources, use autoscaling and reserved/spot capacity, eliminate idle waste, and monitor spend continuously. FinOps discipline routinely cuts cloud bills 20–40% without hurting performance.
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