Layer 01
Applications & data
Identify business owners, data handling, retention, validation, and portability needs.
Coordinate withAgency and application owners
Hosting and cloud
Cloud Services
Connect workload needs with a practical cloud plan, from dependencies and migration through day-to-day operations and clear responsibilities.
Cloud Services in practice
Know who owns each layer.
Moving a workload changes where it runs. It also changes the questions about identity, configuration, recovery, cost, and support.
Layer 02
Identity & configuration
Assign access decisions, configuration, logging, backup, and change authority.
Coordinate withSecurity and technical teams
Layer 03
Connectivity & platform
Confirm provider dependencies, network paths, licensing, and the selected hosting model.
Coordinate withProvider and delivery teams
Layer 04
Operations & recovery
Name support owners, review costs, and define how recovery will be tested.
Coordinate withOperating and service owners
These are planning areas. The final responsibility split follows the chosen service and agency requirements.
Project details
Plan the move and the day after.
Bring the current environment, intended outcome, and known constraints into the first conversation.
01Understand the workload+
Record application dependencies, users, data, identity, connectivity, and operational constraints before selecting a migration sequence.
02Make cutover reversible+
Define validation, communication, approval, and rollback steps. Agree on who decides whether the workload is ready for its new operating environment.
03Keep an exit path+
Plan data return, records, replacement dependencies, access removal, and ongoing costs. Assign those decisions alongside the migration plan.
Common questions
Plan with fewer assumptions.
Use these questions to prepare the next conversation about cloud services.
When should a cloud provider be selected?
Start with workload requirements, agency policies, the procurement path, and operating responsibilities. Use those inputs to evaluate the proposed provider and service model.
What belongs in a responsibility model?
Assign identity, data, configuration, patching, logging, backup, recovery, monitoring, incidents, support, cost, and change decisions.
Why plan the exit early?
Data return, portability, records, access removal, retention, replacement dependencies, charges, and continuity are easier to govern before migration.
Start a conversation
Bring the requirement. Shape the next step.
Start with your sites, systems, timing, and the work you need to coordinate.
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