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The Cylentrix Cloud Migration Handbook
Strategy, app rationalisation, landing-zone design and FinOps — the engineering playbook our clients use.
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Five chapters. One operating reality.
01 · Strategy before strategy
The migration that fails on day 200 fails because of decisions made on day 20. Application portfolio rationalisation is the first, hardest and most valuable step.
02 · Landing-zone design
Multi-account architecture, networking, identity, encryption, observability, FinOps. The landing zone is the foundation; cutting corners here costs ten times more later.
03 · Application rationalisation
Retire, retain, rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase. The 6Rs only work if applied honestly — and most rationalisation exercises are not honest about retire.
04 · Migration patterns
Big-bang vs phased. Strangler-fig vs lift-and-shift. The right pattern depends on the app, the team and the regulatory shape of the workload.
05 · FinOps and steady state
Cost is an architectural property. The handbook ends with the steady-state operating model — FinOps cadence, architecture review, capacity planning, exit strategy.