5 Common Pitfalls to Notice and Avoid During Cloud Adoption

Cloud migrations often start with high expectations, foreseeing a modernized business landscape and as a solution to all their problems.

As per research, 61% of respondents considered moving to the cloud to lower IT costs. The other factors are ensuring business continuity and increasing deployment agility and speed.

Reality doesn’t always align with promises, which makes it harder to meet stakeholder expectations. Smoothly migrating to the cloud is a struggle for many organizations. To ensure success, you have to watch out for these four common pitfalls.

Here are common pitfalls to notice and avoid during cloud adoption:

1. Ignoring hidden costs:

Many businesses make the mistake of ignoring or underestimating cloud service costs. You need to have a thorough understanding of billing methods and look for hidden expenses. Otherwise, your organization might struggle to grasp the overall cost and returns of cloud infrastructure.

2. Lack of planning:

Lack of thorough planning before transitioning to cloud can cause big problems. This includes looking for issues at every step, from implementation to using cloud technology.

It is important for your organization to have a deeper understanding of current and future business needs.

Not fully understanding project costs and complexities and lacking control over service selection and costs can lead to higher expenses and less efficient cloud use.

3. Absence of data backup:

Migration to the cloud involves relocating huge amounts of your organization’s important data. This means that you have to be cautious before and during data transfers.

Make sure to back up data across various cloud providers or to keep information on hardware in an on-premises data center. Also, keep in mind that incorrect backup processes might lead to security risks or data loss.

4. Not picking the right cloud solution:

When businesses select cloud services that are not tailored to their unique needs and operational habits, it results in inefficiency.

This leads to an inability to exploit the full potential of the chosen technology and, in some circumstances, system breakdowns.

5. Overloading internal teams:

When migrating workloads to the cloud, organizations tend to choose between outsourcing to a partner and burdening internal teams.

However, both are undesirable. Outsourcing restricts learning possibilities, while overloading internal teams slows down current work.

Rather, consider adding more cloud-savvy members to your team to promote adoption and support processes.

Seek technical help from Microsoft partners for extra support to continue operations.

Final Thoughts:

This blog article outlines five cloud adoption pitfalls you have to be aware of. These can hinder the migration process and the achievement of your organization's objectives.

Do you need help with your cloud adoption strategy? CEI and Fourth Dimension Technologies have helped firms in various sectors move, protect, and modernize their cloud workloads. Please feel free to contact us.