The Cloud-Native Migration Playbook for Legacy Systems

Cloud migration is not a weekend project. For large enterprises running mission-critical workloads on legacy infrastructure, the path to cloud-native requires careful planning, incremental execution, and constant validation. Phase 1: Assess and Prioritise Not every service needs to be refactored. Use a 2x2 matrix of business criticality vs. technical debt to decide what to rewrite, refactor, replatform, or retire.