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An organization has completely migrated all their infrastructure to the cloud to benefit from its agility. Now they want to innovate faster and achieve a higher return on investment. What should the…

The correct answer is B. Modernize their applications. A 'lift-and-shift' migration moves infrastructure to the cloud but leaves applications in their original form - you get some cost and agility benefits, but not the full value of the cloud. Modernizing applications (re-architecting for microservices, serverless, managed…

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Question

An organization has completely migrated all their infrastructure to the cloud to benefit from its agility. Now they want to innovate faster and achieve a higher return on investment. What should the organization do?

Options

  • AManually provision all cloud infrastructure for increased control.
  • BModernize their applications.
  • CLower their service level objective (SLO).
  • DMove to a hybrid architecture with some of their infrastructure on-premises.

How the community answered

(33 responses)
  • A
    3% (1)
  • B
    94% (31)
  • D
    3% (1)

Explanation

A 'lift-and-shift' migration moves infrastructure to the cloud but leaves applications in their original form - you get some cost and agility benefits, but not the full value of the cloud. Modernizing applications (re-architecting for microservices, serverless, managed databases, CI/CD pipelines, etc.) unlocks the real ROI: faster releases, auto-scaling, reduced operational burden, and the ability to use advanced cloud-native services like AI/ML. Option A (manually provisioning) is the opposite of agility and efficiency. Option C (lowering SLOs) would hurt the product, not help ROI. Option D (moving back to hybrid/on-premises) reverses the migration and reintroduces the overhead they just escaped.

Topics

#Cloud Adoption Strategy#Application Modernization#Business Value of Cloud#Cloud Maturity Model

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