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Define: "Lift and shift"
What HR thinks it means:
Moving an application or operation from one environment to another without redesigning it.
What it actually means:
"Taking our outdated, broken legacy servers and moving them into AWS so they can be broken and expensive."
Use it in a meeting:
"The brilliant lift and shift strategy just transferred our miserable, broken on-premise architecture into a miserable, $10,000-a-month AWS bill."
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