In this chapter, you learned how the cloud is becoming the most popular mainstream application hosting and development environment for enterprises. At the beginning of this chapter, you learned about cloud thinking and how it's related to solution architecture design. Since more organizations are looking to move into the cloud, this chapter focused on various cloud migration strategies, techniques, and steps.

You learned about various cloud strategies, as per the nature of workload and migration priorities. Migration strategies include the ability to rehost and replatform your application for Lift and Shift and takes the cloud-native approach by refactoring and rearchitecting your application to take advantage of cloud-native capabilities. You may find some unused inventory during application discovery and retire it. If you choose to not migrate a certain workload then retain the application as is on-premises.

Then, you learned about the steps involved in cloud migration...