Identity-First Cloud Migration: Why Lift-and-Shift Fails
At BitTitan, we’ve seen organizations increasingly struggle with identity complexity as hybrid and multi-cloud environments become the norm. Cloud migration used to be relatively straightforward. Teams would move workloads, validate access, and decommission legacy systems. That model worked when environments were more contained and identities were simpler to manage.
Today, migration looks very different. Organizations operate across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, a model that has become the norm for most enterprises. As they integrate systems after mergers, support distributed workforces, and adopt Zero Trust security models, identity has taken on a central role, governing how users, devices, and applications interact.
Yet many migration strategies still follow a lift-and-shift mindset, focusing on moving data first, and assuming identity will fall into place, even though identity rarely works that way in practice.
Why lift-and-shift breaks down
Traditional migration approaches prioritize workloads such as email, collaboration tools, and file storage, with identity...
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