Lift-and-shift versus replatforming migration
WHAT IT TESTS: knowledge of the migration 6 Rs. OUTLINE: rehosting moves apps unchanged for speed and low risk; replatforming makes targeted optimizations for cloud benefits; explain the speed-versus-value trade-off.
WHAT IT TESTS: whether you understand cloud migration strategies and their trade-offs. ANSWER OUTLINE: rehosting (lift and shift) moves applications to the cloud with no or minimal changes, fast and low-risk and ideal for deadlines or large fleets, but it carries over inefficiencies and rarely uses cloud-native features. Replatforming makes a few targeted optimizations, such as swapping a self-managed database for a managed one, gaining some cloud value without a full rewrite, at the cost of more effort and risk.
Read the original → interview
- #cloud-migration
- #lift-and-shift
- #replatforming
- #strategy
- #fundamentals
Get five bites like this every day.
Tezvyn delivers a daily feed of 60-second tech bites with quizzes to lock in what you learn.