Designing an Automation Layer for Large-Scale Enterprise Cloud Migration
Enterprise cloud migration has a dirty secret: we still talk about migration as if the hard part is moving data from A to B.
It isn't.
Data movement matters. Obviously. But in a large enterprise environment, the real pain sits elsewhere. Dependencies nobody documented well. Infrastructure that changes while the migration is still being planned. Security policies that do not translate cleanly between clouds. Networking that behaves differently across providers. Production workloads you cannot just switch off while engineers sort it out.
At that point, migration stops looking like a transfer project.
It starts looking like an automation problem.
After working on large-scale cloud migration and platform automation, I have come to believe the most valuable thing an engineering team builds during a migration is often not the destination environment itself.
It is the automation layer that gets workloads there safely.
Why does the traditional migration playbook break?
Most migration...
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