NextGov: As agencies are looking to move to the cloud, they should consider starting over whenever possible, rather than trying to lift and shift, several agency cloud experts said.
In a cloud migration, “lift and shift” refers to moving existing systems into a cloud environment, rather than building a new architecture specifically for the new environment. This can range from putting agency servers into a colocation infrastructure-as-a-service model to moving legacy applications into a virtual environment using containers or by tweaking the code.
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