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Why Move to Cloud?
The key to taking this path is asking yourself why and what parts of the cloud to take advantage of. At this revision of this article, I'm doing a brain dump and then going to boil ti down.
Advantage | Categroy | Comment | Devil's Advocate View |
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Remove Hardware Dependencies | |||
Can Expand and Contract | |||
Infrastructure as a Service | |||
Cheaper | Cost | I'm not quite convinced this is true. | |
Path to Cloud
Here is high level path and approach to Cloud taking the Bonsai Framework approach.
Technical Narrative | Functionality | Description | Business Values | Technical Value | More Details |
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Make Transportable - Zero Foot Print |
| Uniformity. | |||
Cookie Cutter | Infrastructure as Code using Scripts | Fast delivery of environments. | Code as Infrastructure. | ||
Prove On the Cloud | Reduce risk. | ||||
Run on the Cloud | Save Money with Pay as you Go. Instant capacity. Go virtual with no more hardware. | ||||
Add Salt | Monitoring and Alerting | ||||
Cleanup Automation | |||||
Backups | |||||
Security | Security Hardening | ||||
Build from Recipe | CiCD | ||||
Insurance | Disaster Recovery | ||||