A cloud migration should begin with discovery, not deployment. Moving workloads before understanding dependencies can create avoidable downtime, security issues and unexpected cost.
Inventory applications and workloads
List applications, services, databases, storage and critical scheduled processes.
Map dependencies
Document what each workload depends on: identity providers, databases, network connections, external APIs and internal services.
Review identity and access
Define administrative access, service identities, least-privilege requirements and authentication controls.
Plan data migration
Consider volume, transfer time, encryption, validation and rollback requirements.
Review security controls
Public exposure, secrets, logging, patching and vulnerability management should be part of the target design.
Estimate operating costs
Include compute, storage, traffic, monitoring, backups and managed services rather than looking only at headline infrastructure prices.
Define backups and recovery
Migration is not complete until recovery expectations and backup testing are understood.
Plan observability
Teams need logs, metrics and alerts from the first production deployment.
Create a migration sequence
Move lower-risk workloads first when possible and learn from the process before migrating critical systems.
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