Define: "Lift and shift" in Business
Multi-headcount capital waste
"Moving your on-premOn-PremThat dusty server rack in the closet that nobody has the password to anymore. disaster directly to the cloudThe CloudSomeone else's computer that we are now paying a 400% premium to use.. Prepare for your AWS bill to quadruple."
Moving an application or operation from one environment to another without redesigning it.
What does "Lift and shift" actually mean?
"Taking our outdated, broken legacy servers and moving them into AWS so they can be broken and expensive."
"For phase one, we will simply lift and shift the application to the new cloud environment."
"The brilliant lift and shift strategy just transferred our miserable, broken on-premise architecture into a miserable, $10,000-a-month AWS bill."
By The Chief Waste Officer
18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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