Best Practices For Migrating Between Public Clouds
CIO, Thursday, April 17th, 2025
No cloud lasts forever. Yours is no different. Learn the tough truths and essential tactics for migrating between public cloud platforms.
Historically, cloud migration usually meant moving on-premises workloads to a public cloud, like Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. And because so many businesses were keen to get out of the on-prem infrastructure management business by moving to public cloud, there were plenty of guides and tools to help with an on-prem to public cloud migration.
But now that about half of enterprises have workloads in the public cloud, moving applications and data from on-prem server rooms or private data centers into a public cloud environment is no longer the crux of many cloud migration strategies. Instead, businesses are facing a new challenge: How to move workloads from one public cloud to another.