14-7: Cloud Migration ROI
The financial reality of moving on-prem data centers to the cloud: Lift & Shift vs. Cloud-Native Refactoring.
🎯 What You'll Learn
- ✓ Model CapEx to OpEx conversions
- ✓ Calculate dual-running migration taxes
- ✓ Measure immediate value delivery limits
The Lift and Shift Trap
When migrating to the cloud, taking 50 monolithic legacy Windows servers from a physical data center and running them on 50 EC2 instances is called "Lift and Shift". It is the fastest migration path, but it fundamentally breaks the cloud economic model.
Because the servers run 24/7 at low utilization, "Lift and Shift" almost always results in a cloud bill that is vastly higher than the original on-prem hardware depreciation costs.
Realizing the "Cloud Premium" requires "Refactoring"—breaking those servers into auto-scaling microservices and serverless functions that scale to zero when not in use. Refactoring is slow and expensive, creating a steep TCO trough.
The 12-to-18-month financial period where the organization pays for both the fading data center and the new cloud environment simultaneously.
The engineering capital invested exclusively to make standard code "Cloud-Native" (containerized, stateless).
Audit the architecture of the last 3 applications migrated to AWS.
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Module Syllabus
Lesson 1: The Lift and Shift Trap
When migrating to the cloud, taking 50 monolithic legacy Windows servers from a physical data center and running them on 50 EC2 instances is called "Lift and Shift". It is the fastest migration path, but it fundamentally breaks the cloud economic model.Because the servers run 24/7 at low utilization, "Lift and Shift" almost always results in a cloud bill that is vastly higher than the original on-prem hardware depreciation costs.Realizing the "Cloud Premium" requires "Refactoring"—breaking those servers into auto-scaling microservices and serverless functions that scale to zero when not in use. Refactoring is slow and expensive, creating a steep TCO trough.
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