Week 9 - Best practices, part 2

According to Stephen Orban of Amazon Web Services, these are best practices to follow during and after Cloud migration.

Migration Stage

1. Start simply. Move a small amount of your environment to the Cloud. See how that runs and then proceed to move more. 
2. Automate as many tasks as possible when you move to the cloud.
3. Embrace the technological change and update your internal processes to reflect that.
4. Use your cloud service provider to do the day-to-day maintenance activities. This will free up your employees to focus on more important things.

Post-Migration Stage

1. Have a monitoring strategy for your applications. This will give you insights into how the environment is running.
2. There are cloud-native monitoring tools. You will want to use them. They will let you see how your applications are performing.
3. Hopefully, in your Cloud Service Provider contract, you got enterprise support. If you did, make sure to use those services. The CSP is a valuable source of IT knowledge and how the cloud works. Make sure to escalate any issues to them.

https://medium.com/aws-enterprise-collection/21-best-practices-for-your-cloud-migration-e406546cb66b#.drbhmg427