Cloud migration patterns: a multi-cloud service architecture perspective
Jamshidi, Pooyan, Pahl, ClausORCID: 0000-0002-9049-212X, Chinenyeze, Samuel and Liu, Xiaodong
(2015)
Cloud migration patterns: a multi-cloud service architecture perspective.
In: 10th International Workshop on Engineering Service Oriented Applications - WESOA’14, 3 Nov 2014, Paris, France.
ISBN 978-3-319-22884-6
Many organizations migrate their on-premise software systems to the cloud. However, current coarse-grained cloud migration solutions have made a transparent migration of on-premise applications to the cloud a difficult, sometimes trial-and-error based endeavor. This paper suggests a catalogue of fine-grained service-based cloud architecture migration patterns that target multi-cloud settings and are specified with architectural notations. The proposed migration patterns are based on empirical evi-dence from a number of migration projects, best practices for cloud architectures and a systematic literature review of existing research. The pattern catalogue allows an or-ganization to (1) select appropriate architecture migration patterns based on their ob-jectives, (2) compose them to define a migration plan, and (3) extend them based on the identification of new patterns in new contexts.