Stage 1 – Planning

Migration starts with planning the target environment that you are going to build to meet your requirements. Planning involves looking at a set of focus areas, each of which will require careful consideration:

These focus areas will help you make decisions that will form the migration strategy. They also help you achieve your migration goals by reducing the migration complexity and costs.  

During the planning stage, it's also critical to assess your current environment and identify pain points that you want to address as part of this migration. These pain points can be around performance, security, reliability, speed of delivery, cost, or ease of operations. As you review the focus areas, consider what improvements you can make as part of the migration.