NCSC cloud anti-pattern #4: Don’t build an ‘on-prem’ solution in the cloud – Fedr8

NCSC cloud anti-pattern #4: Don’t build an ‘on-prem’ solution in the cloud 7th May 2020 Lifting-and-shifting (Rehosting) is perceived as the easiest, Occam’s Razor method of migrating applications from on-premises to the cloud. Rehost is the defacto standard migration method for large-scale migrations where time is of the essence. “Let’s get it done and finesse […]

Kelsey Hightower: Why modernizing at the infrastructure layer is half the problem – Fedr8

Lifting-and-shifting virtual machines from on-premises to a cloud can treat the application as a fragile black-box. To make this black-box operational in the cloud without adapting it means you have to change the environment — the cloud — to fit the black-box. This is great news for vendors like VMware because they specialise in “normalizing […]

Comic Relief achieved 16x value with application-centric migration instead of infrastructure-centric

Comic Relief changed their infrastructure-centric AWS bill from £83k per month to £5k per month. Their 16x cost reduction was achieved by refactoring their application to exploit the cloud. But not everyone is refactoring their applications. Rehost is the most common cloud migration strategy (40%) of the 6Rs. Also known as Lift-and-Shift, is a bottom-up infrastructure-centric […]