Illustrative cloud environment
Understand the platform
Google Cloud provides infrastructure, application and data services. Use a workload assessment to decide what can move directly and what needs changes, with data access and operational ownership agreed from the start.
What the main services mean
Compute and application hosting
Evaluate virtual servers or supported managed hosting according to the application architecture.
Storage
Plan file and object storage with access, retention and transfer requirements.
Databases
Review supported engines, application connections and migration compatibility.
Data analytics
Consider reporting and analytical processing separately from the transactional application.
Access and operations
Agree resource permissions, monitoring, recovery and recurring cost review.
Migration approach
Discover
Document servers, applications, data and dependencies.
Assess
Migration Center supports infrastructure assessment, planning and cost estimation.
Choose a strategy
Consider rehosting, adapting the platform or redesigning components according to the workload.
Pilot and move
Validate connectivity and data with a pilot, then migrate agreed groups.
Review operations
Confirm ownership, backup and monitoring after the transition.
When to assess this platform
Assess Google Cloud when its hosting and data services suit your requirements. Review skills, integrations, data location and costs before choosing.
Before we propose a migration
We need workload owners, an inventory, resource usage, dependencies, data volumes, licence requirements and acceptable downtime. The region, security responsibilities and recurring budget are agreed before implementation.
What the assessment should produce
- Workload inventory and fit assessment
- Target environment and responsibility map
- Migration waves, validation and rollback criteria
- Provider cost assumptions and implementation scope
- Handover, monitoring and recovery ownership
Official platform resources
Read the official migration guidance and use the provider pricing calculator for current configuration-specific estimates.
Platform names identify environments for assessment. Partnership, certification and project delivery scope are not implied.