When planning their cloud migration journey what is crucial for virtually all organizations to perform?

SASE framework deployment is a network security architecture decision that is relevant only to organizations adopting a specific security model, not a universal prerequisite for all cloud migrations.

Optimizing the WAN environment may benefit organizations with significant on-premises connectivity needs, but many cloud-first or SaaS-heavy migrations require no WAN changes at all.

An infrastructure assessment is universally required because it inventories existing workloads, identifies application dependencies, evaluates compatibility with cloud services, and reveals security or compliance gaps - all of which directly inform migration strategy, cost projections, and sequencing for virtually every organization regardless of size or industry.

RPO and RTO calculations are important disaster recovery planning activities, but they come after the infrastructure assessment establishes what systems exist and what their criticality is.