Cloud Migration

Definitions

1. The process of moving applications, data, and operational workflows from on-premises or other hosting models into cloud infrastructure and services. Cloud migration is not just a lift-and-shift exercise; it usually involves changing networking, storage, observability, deployment, and reliability assumptions along the way.

   In plain English: Moving systems and data into cloud environments.

   Example: "The cloud migration only stabilized after the team redesigned stateful file handling instead of trying to move the old shared-disk assumptions unchanged."

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