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Cloud migration and repatriation: choose by workload
A decision framework for placing workloads across AWS, Azure, private cloud, and on-premises environments.
Cloud is an operating model
Placement decisions should reflect business change rate, data gravity, latency, regulatory controls, platform dependencies, and the organization’s ability to operate each environment—not a blanket preference for one destination.
Assess the complete lifecycle
A convincing unit-cost comparison can become misleading when migration, resilience, skills, licensing, security operations, and future change are omitted.
- Business criticality and recovery objectives
- Data movement and latency
- Modernization opportunity
- Operational ownership and skill depth
Keep movement reversible
Portable delivery patterns, tested backups, infrastructure as code, and explicit dependency maps reduce the cost of future placement decisions. Reversibility is a form of risk management.