What is this report about?
This document is a sample portfolio assessment report for developing an actionable cloud migration roadmap for a portfolio of 20 applications that recommends the best candidates for PaaS, containers, IaaS, retirement, and more. The analysis was completed in three days by analyzing the source code and completing a few survey questions for each application.
What will you find inside this report?
- An overall assessment of the cloud readiness, open source risks, and health for each application (including multi-cloud readiness)
- A prioritized list of applications to migrate to the cloud segmented by PaaS, Containers, IaaS, and other options
- Specific recommendations on how to migrate each application to cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and IBM Cloud
- Specific recommendations on the open source risks, software resiliency, and technical debt issues that should be addressed before migration
What can you do with this report?
- Use this report as a template (or cloud assessment checklist) for your own application cloud readiness assessments and smarter portfolio rationalization
- Use it as a Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, or Google Cloud readiness assessment tool including 5Rs for cloud recommendations
- Get specific recommendations on how to containerize or refactor applications for cloud
- Develop a cloud migration roadmap for segmenting and prioritizing applications based on various technical and business criteria
- Use it to dramatically speed up the decision-making process for migrating applications to the cloud
- Understand the cloud readiness assessment questions you should answer as part of your cloud readiness assessment methodology