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Additional considerations

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Additional considerations

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- [Presenter] There are a few other considerations that you should take into account prior to beginning a cloud migration project. And the very first of those considerations, and this one might sound a little bit odd, but the very first consideration is why are you migrating the application in the first place? The reason why I say that it's important to consider the reason why you're migrating the application is because your reason behind the migration may determine various aspects of the migration process. Let me give you an example. Let's suppose for example, that you're running the application on premises right now and you don't necessarily have enough capacity to handle an anticipated workload. Maybe you work for an insurance company and the open enrollment period is coming up, or maybe you work in retail and the holiday shopping season is coming up. For whatever reason, you know that there's about to be a huge demand spike for that application and you just don't have the capacity…

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