Challenges

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Miss Conception

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Challenges and Miss Conception
v Migrating Legacy Applications to the Cloud
Most legacy applications are not cloud ready or not architected to scale horizontally. To deploy
application in cloud, we need special way of coding. Refer to 12 factor apps.

v Misguided Expectations
Wrong perception that Cloud will always reduce cost

v Misinformed about Cloud Security

Very few corporations know enough about the security requirements in the cloud necessary to
architect for it. Some aspects of security is not managed by providers.

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v Underestimating the Impacts of Organizational Change
Change goes way beyond IT

v Skills Shortage
Cloud may requires a lot of skillsets.

v Misunderstanding Customer Requirements

IT requirement vs Business need

v Unexpected Costs
pay-as-you-go model greatly reduces the cost only holds true if the application is architected and managed
in a way that optimizes the use of cloud services.

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v Outages and Out-of-Business Scenarios
Cloud may fail, need backup plan to mitigate the risk

v Selecting a Favorite Vendor, Not an Appropriate Vendor

Need IaaS but use PaaS vendor

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