{"id":5791,"date":"2020-05-11T12:38:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T11:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lcloud.pl\/?p=5791"},"modified":"2020-08-31T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:38:47","slug":"lift-shift-and-benefit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lcloud.pl\/en\/lift-shift-and-benefit\/","title":{"rendered":"“Lift, shift and benefit!” – how to migrate to the cloud thanks to the Lift & Shift method"},"content":{"rendered":"

We don’t need to convince anyone to migrate their infrastructure to cloud. The opportunities that it brings are not only a reduction in infrastructure costs, but also the ability to quickly respond to market needs, while ensuring a high level of security and optimization of the environment. Migration to the cloud can be an agile and effective process. If you are facing a challenge that has forced you to implement the immediate adaptation to emerging changes, we will willingly show you how to do it to achieve the best results. The speed and nimbleness of the migration process depends mainly on proper preparation. That is why it is important to identify the resources we have, as well as to analyze and set goals that we want to achieve through migration to the cloud. Also, it’s worth using the <\/span>Cloud Adoption Framework<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span> developed by AWS, which is the basis of the most important and best practices to facilitate this process.<\/span><\/h4>\n

In today’s post we will focus on the fastest option, which is one of 3 variants recommended by AWS. Lift and Shift<\/span> <\/em>is one of the most popular methods of migration to the cloud and is often the first step in the cloud adoption process. Remember that this is not the only option you can choose. Depending on your needs – you can create an environment from scratch or thoroughly redesign it. We can also take advantage of the existing on-premise infrastructure, combined with the power of cloud computing in a hybrid solution.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lift and Shift <\/em><\/span>is a scenario allowing the migration of existing infrastructure to cloud. In practice, this means “lifting and moving” the existing environment from physical servers to the cloud. AWS Cloud provides solutions that provide greater flexibility, performance and scalability, while increasing the level of security.<\/span><\/p>\n

The challenge may be not only the need to maintain the functionality of the application, but often inclueds huge amounts of data that need to be properly stored and processed. Amazon Web Services is excellent at providing data storage and storage management services that are key to Lift and Shift<\/span>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Amazon<\/a> EFS<\/a> <\/span>is a fully managed service that facilitates configuration, scaling and optimization of file storage costs in the AWS cloud. This is a network drive that can be accessed from many servers and computers (using the NFSv4 protocol). The fee is charged only for the size of the reserved network drive expressed in GB.
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\"\"Amazon EBS<\/span><\/a> is an easy-to-use block storage service designed to be used in conjunction with the Amazon EC2 service, both for heavy workloads and intensive transactions on any scale. It has a wide range of applications – for solutions such as relational and nonrelational databases, corporate applications, containerized applications, analytical engines of large data sets, file systems. Similar to Amazon EFS, the fee is charged for the size of the reserved disk expressed in GB.<\/span><\/p>\n

The benefits we achieve by using the Lift and Shift <\/em><\/span>scenario<\/span><\/span>:<\/span><\/p>\n