Moving from your own data center to a public cloud can be a daunting task. It can get confusing – Where to start? How to come up with a plan for the movement?
The trick is to identify non-critical components of your tech stack to experiment and gain confidence. Once you are familiar with the nuances of operating in the cloud, you can make the big bang move.
One approach is to start with replicating your QA/development/staging environments in the cloud; this gives you a realistic picture of what it will take to move your actual production setup to the cloud.
Another approach is to move offline data processing workloads to the cloud. Data processing thrives on elastic capacity, and the cloud is amenable to workloads like this.
Also, start creating slaves of your production databases in the cloud; this will give you the valuable experience of running a datastore on fickle cloud servers. Operating persistent datastores in a transient environment like the cloud can be challenging. Plan for this and gain experience before you trust your production data to the cloud.
Once you have done the above, you would have enough foresight to plan your complete migration to the cloud.
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