Selection of Pilot Applications

While selecting applications for a pilot cloud migration, consider whether the following conditions for this process are met in a holistic manner:

• Willingness for cloud migration: Different business departments have different willingness to migrate their businesses to the cloud. Preferentially select those who are highly motivated to migrate their businesses to the cloud, have sufficient workforce and time, and actively participate in the migration.
• Business importance: Based on the existing applications and businesses of the enterprises, select those with high importance but low impact on normal operations for pilot cloud migrations.
• Cloud migration benefits: Select applications for which cloud migration benefits can be easily quantified, such as reducing costs, improving availability, and quickly deploying businesses. Use these applications as pilots to show the benefits of cloud migration.
• Implementation difficulty: Select some applications with low implementation difficulty as pilots based on the implementation capability of the IT departments of enterprises.
• Impact on businesses: Consider how a migration affects other business processes and data flows to prevent disrupting normal operations.
• Security: Consider data security and compliance with related laws and regulations to avoid security risks or violations of related laws and regulations.
• Testability: Pilot cloud migrations can be used to verify migration solutions, identify potential problems, and continuously test and optimize methods to ensure successful cloud migration. Applications with high testability can be selected to fully verify the solutions and pave the way for subsequent large-scale cloud migrations.