A cloud migration assessment determines what moves, when it moves, how hard it is and what it costs. Done right, it prevents costly surprises. This guide covers the complete process.
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Evaluates infrastructure against cloud migration requirements. Produces readiness score per server, identifies blockers, maps migration waves and estimates effort and risk. 2-4 weeks manually or 60 seconds with TCOIQ.
Rehost (lift-and-shift), Replatform (managed PaaS), Refactor (cloud-native), Retire (decommission 10-20%), Retain (keep on-prem). Good assessment assigns the right R to each workload.
OS version, workload type, hosting environment, CPU/RAM spec. Score 0-100: 80+ = Cloud Ready, 60-79 = Needs Assessment, below 60 = Complex Migration.
Wave 1 (Weeks 1-8): Dev/test, monitoring — low risk. Wave 2 (Weeks 9-20): Production app servers. Wave 3 (Weeks 21-28): SAP, databases, complex workloads.
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