Are you ready to Migrate to the Cloud? What steps are needed? What skills are needed? How fast can we move to the cloud? What are the pitfalls and concerns? All of these are great questions and the concerns of most CIOs or whomever has been tasked with moving to the cloud. Here is one approach to answer these questions. My approach comes from the 6 R’s that Amazon Web Servers (AWS) offers. I will modify them slightly and add an additional R. Here is a picture of my flowchart for the process of migrating to the cloud. I will mention upfront; MISTAKES WILL BE MADE! The best design will not be the first design! The process of continual improvement will need to take place. Get moving! Don’t let “paralysis by analysis” prevent your cloud migration. The more applications that you move to the cloud the more knowledge you will gain, and the designs will get better. ...