For new customers who want to migrate from an on-premise environment to Alibaba Cloud.

A checklist before making the plan:

Business Value of migration

How much downtime can we afford and justify to our users?

As IT users we must consider:

• Which applications are always changing?
• What is the size of the database we want to migrate?
• What kind of database do we want to migrate?

Workload analysis

To migrate workloads from on-premise to Alibaba Cloud, users must complete an analysis.

The purpose of this assessment is to get visibility into how long it will take to migrate from on-premise to cloud, as well as what methods you need to use.

• Business Value of migration
• Cost analysis
• Operating Model review
• Manpower skillset review