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Cloud Migration Strategies (6R's) In today’s world every organization wants to harness the potential of cloud computing in order to gain competitive advantages over their peers and competitors. Migrating their existing applications and infrastructure from on-premises environment to cloud environment would be a daunting and problematic task, if a though through well-designed plan is not created for cloud migration activities. To create a well-designed plan, you need to first understand the prescribed cloud migration strategies. In 2011 Gartner analyst Richard Watson  outlined 5 R’s Strategies for Cloud migration. v   Rehost v   Refactor v   Revise v   Rebuild v   Replace In 2016 Steven Orban of AWS renamed some and added a new one. That makes them 6 R’s. These 6 R’s helps you categorizing the cloud migration strategy of your applications and bringing structure into your decision processes. Before jumping into what are 6 R’s it is necessary to understanding the