Cloud migration can help businesses improve scalability, performance, security, and infrastructure efficiency. However, moving applications, databases, and workloads from on-premises environments to the cloud comes with one major concern: downtime.
Even a short service interruption can affect customer experience, revenue, productivity, and business reputation. This is why organisations planning a migration need a strategy that keeps critical applications available throughout the transition.
With careful planning, automated deployment, data synchronisation, testing, and a controlled cutover strategy, businesses can significantly reduce migration-related downtime and achieve a near-zero-downtime cloud migration.
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