The promise of cloud migration is reduced costs and increased agility. The reality? Many organizations see their costs increase after migration. Here are the seven most common reasons — and how to avoid them.
Moving on-premises workloads to equivalently-sized cloud instances almost always results in over-provisioning. On-premises servers are typically utilized at 10–20% — you don’t need the same capacity in the cloud.
Data transfer between regions, availability zones, and to the internet adds up fast. Architecture decisions made during migration have lasting cost implications.
Reserved capacity should be part of your migration plan from day one, not an afterthought. Waiting until after migration leaves money on the table.
