Discussions of cloud migration tend to focus mostly on how to redesign applications to take full advantage of cloud services, then move the applications into the cloud.
A topic that receives less attention is how to migrate data into the cloud. That’s a shame, because data migration into the cloud is one of the most complex – and, in some cases, fraught – components of a cloud migration. There are many ways to get data into the cloud, and many considerations to weigh in planning the right data migration strategy.
