Rehost
Rehost, often referred to as lift-and-shift, is the quickest path to the cloud and, in its purest form, literally means moving a workload exactly as is from its existing location (usually on-premises) to the cloud. This migration pattern is often chosen because it allows for relatively small amounts of upfront analysis work and provides a quick return on investment. There are many tools in the market that support this type of migration, doing block-level replication or image packaging to get the instances to the cloud. In addition, there are tools that allow for database servers to have their data migrated, including schemas, in a similar manner. The drawback of this type of migration is that typically, the speed of migration means ...
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