We know moving to the cloud may seem more costly than expected. Around 56% of IT decision-makers are facing challenges in maximizing long-term cloud cost savings (according to a Capita survey). We described 6 issues to consider that may have an impact on your cloud migration project budget.

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2. Vendor lock-in
Do your ‘homework’
Figure out your cloud migration goals, assess your current
IT situation, determine necessary cloud components
Make an ‘exit’ plan to quit
it’s an important step to protect your company in
case your ‘plan A’ goes adrift
Maximize the portability of data
Avoid proprietary formatting and make sure that your cloud
vendor provides a way to extract data without difficulty
Implement DevOps tools
Take data-driven decisions for further business
development
There are situations where the cost of changing a vendor is
so high that the customer is stuck with the original vendor.
Some tips to mitigate vendor lock-in risks are as follows:

3. Overprovisioning
Provisioning is equipping cloud instances with
everything it needs to run IT services, while
overprovisioning is buying more of something than
you need and paying for power you don’t use.
To avoid this expensive mistake, size up your servers
correctly. Set up a baseline of how much power you
use and start from there, monitoring and sizing up the
resources. Secondly, terminate idle instances. To lower
the cost of your monthly cloud bill, don’t leave
underutilized servers switched on.

4. Fragmented approach
Sometimes companies view migration from the
bottom up when each department manages it in a
vacuum. Such a strategy impedes the
transformational process and causes the
duplication of effort.
To lessen the struggle with individual departments
pulling time and resources in opposite directions,
you need to unify your cloud migration strategy.

5. Lift-and-shift approach
The lift-and-shift approach doesn’t work as you
expect it to with applications that are not
cloud-friendly. Moreover, without code
optimization, configuration, or refactoring there’s
little chance to maximize long-term cloud cost
savings.
Without identifying the critical features of the
application before the migration it’ll be impossible
to take full advantage of cloud implementation.

6. Support issues
If something goes wrong with your applications in
the cloud, you can’t expect that your problem will
be resolved in no time. Having to wait for the issue
to be resolved takes its toll in terms of and inability
to serve end-users.
As long as customers can’t control infrastructure,
they have to be really careful about choosing a
trusted cloud vendor that is capable of providing
the level of support you need.

7. Lack of extra skills
Project management
Planning and tracking, organizing and
overseeing a lot of moving parts
Business knowledge
Understanding core business processes and being
able to explain them to programmers
Understanding legal implications
Having knowledge of rules and regulations around
cloud providers
It's not only your staff’s tech knowledge that can save you
money while carrying out cloud migration. Such
non-technical skills are of equal importance as:

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