assessing migration readiness

Migration Readiness Assessment Heatmap (example)#

🟨 Business Case#

• ✅ Key Stakeholder Sign-off
• 🟨 High Level Business Case
• 🟨 Migration Funding Commitment
• 🟨 Specific Migration Workloads Committed
• 🟨 Detailed Business Case

✅ Landing Zone#

• ✅ AWS Master Account/Sub-Accounts
• ✅ Existing Network & Data Center Architecture
• 🟨 Account Design & Configuration

🟨 Operating Model#

• ✅ Current Operational Model
• ✅ Asset Management
• ✅ Service Catalog
• 🟨 Future Requirements
• 🟨 AMI/Patching
• 🟨 Backup
• 🟨 Config Management & Change Management
• 🟨 Cost Management
• 🟨 CI/CD Pipelines
• ❗ Managed Service Provider Identified
• ❗ BCP/DR
• ❗ Cloud Ready Operational Processes & Run Books

🟨 Customer Migration Project Plan#

• 🟨 Determine Delivery Model & Approach
• 🟨 Project Management Capability
• ❗ Migration Plan

🟨 Customer Migration Project Plan#

• 🟨 Server & Infrastructure Discovery Data
• 🟨 Workload Owner Buy-In or Aligment
• ❗ Application Discovery Data
• ❗ Migration Scope Scored & Targeted for Optimisation

🟨 Security & Compliance#

• ✅ 3rd Party Risk
• ✅ Identity &Access Management
• ✅ Infrastructure Security
• ✅ Data Protection
• ✅ Compliance Design
• 🟨 Shared Responsiblity Model Understood
• 🟨 Security RACI
• 🟨 Security Cartography
• 🟨 Cloud Security Readiness Tested
• 🟨 Logging & Monitoring
• ❗ Incident Response

🟨 Skills & COE#

• ✅ Single Threaded Leader
• ✅ Design or Evolve COE
• 🟨 COE Resource Commitment -❗ Expirience Baseline -❗ Organisational Training

❗ Migration Processs & Expirience#

• 🟨 Migration Expirience
• ❗ Identification of Pilot Applications