Cloud Migration Challenges: Better to Stay On-Premises

⚠️ Before You Migrate to the Cloud: Key Reasons to Pause 🚫 When Migration Might Not Make Sense You've heavily invested in apps that aren’t cloud-ready Apps won’t benefit from scalability, redundancy, or high availability You're migrating just to be in the cloud —without clear value Lack of clarity on what to migrate (and what to leave behind) 🧠Strategy Gaps to Watch For No defined success criteria for cloud implementation Undefined ROI, performance expectations, or goals Missing plans for lifecycle of non-migratable resources No cost breakdown (short-term, long-term, ongoing) ⚙️ Operational & Compliance Roadblocks Cloud creates latency between on-prem and migrated resources No strategy for dependent services that must remain on-prem Regulatory restrictions or compliance barriers block migration Internal policy requires private cloud or legacy environments ✅ Migration Makes Sense When ... Apps are cloud-ready and hardware is nearing end-of-life Cost-benefit is cl...