Advantages to Lift and Shift

Lift-and-shift is a popular approach to migrating applications and workloads to public cloud resources as it has several benefits. It offers the fastest migration route, is cost effective, involves minimal planning and can help reduce risk.

The lift-and-shift model allows you to quickly lift your workloads from the current environment and shift them onto cloud resources, thus minimizing setup and implementation time.

Furthermore, there are no code revisions or optimization required so the upfront costs of this approach tend to be lower than with other migration models. In addition, lift-and-shift enables you to migrate an app without making significant changes so the potential risk of migrating an application is lessened.

However, long term costs should be taken into consideration since all environments have different complexities which could leave gaps for optimization if lift-and-shift is chosen.

Learn how lift and shift can advance your path to app modernization: Lift and Shift: A Holistic Approach to Application Modernization