The good news: To address the migration challenges, my colleagues and I have developed a new approach to cloud infrastructure portability, cloud cloning. In two articles here, I will [[outline the shortcomings of previous approaches]] and [[explain how cloud cloning solves the above problems]]. The goal is to help firms capture the multicloud promise at last.
To start, below I dive into what’s missing from the three main categories of legacy cloud infrastructure migration offerings: cloud-native tools, infrastructure as code, and governance products. In the companion article, I describe how cloud cloning answers these legacy issues with a wholly new approach.
If you’re migrating to a hyperscaler, the cloud providers’ own migration offerings—such as Azure Migrate, AWS Migration Services, and Google Cloud Migrate—feel like obvious choices. Built specifically for the cloud you’re moving to, these solutions can provide excellent automation for provisioning and migration with templates, snapshots, managed services and more.
