If you’re in the process of migrating workloads to the cloud, chances are this is not your first rodeo. Most of those doing cloud migrations are on their second or third project. Just when you would think we’re becoming more experienced, we’re also seeing an increase in migration failures. Here are the top three problems I see and ways to avoid them:
First: no larger vision beyond the projects. We’re building clouds by using tactical microarchitectures that are typically focused around a short sprint and a few workloads. Thus, we reinvent our cloud architecture each time. Soon we’ll be in cloud complexity hell, with no common services, such as common security, governance, managing, and monitoring.
