Cloud Adoption and Migration Practices

1. Consider Software as a Service before making the commitment to run an application at all
2. Consider the public cloud first for all new applications
3. Prefer the most abstracted service delivery model that meets the application's needs
4. Within a service delivery model, prefer managed services over those that we operate, especially for lower level components of an application
5. The preferred cloud provider for the Division of IT is AWS
6. Consider carefully the circumstances under which it makes sense to run a workload on premises
7. Don't duplicate a commodity service available at a greater economy of scale
8. Avoid creating the perception that on-premises services are "free"
9. Consider technical debt and operation and maintenance obligations when comparing an on-premises implementation to the public cloud