1. Current Cloud Setup: Identify which components are most crucial to your operations. 2. Prepare a Migration Strategy: Plan your approach, carefully whether it involves a "lift and shift" method or making necessary adjustments to fit the new platform. 3. Ensure Backup and Failover Systems: Backsup systems are in place, and have mechanisms ready to automatically switch over to a different environment if problems arise. 4. Implement Monitoring: monitoring for both old and new environments. Use tools like Prometheus, or Cloud-native monitoring services to track performance, latency, and errors. Validate Post-Migration: Once the migration is done, thoroughly check everything to ensure it's working correctly on the new platform.

1. Identify dependencies: Can be done by thorough planning and assessment of existing environment. 2. Migration strategy: If workload is strictly dependent on underlying infrastructure, it would be good to choose a phased or hybrid migration strategy rather than lift and shift. This will minimize service disruption. 3. Backups and failover: Implement automated backups and testing. Depending on the existing infrastructure/hosting setup, SQL agent jobs, point in time restores, etc can be used for backups. Failover will allow you to switch to a secondary 4. Implement monitoring for the old and new workloads

Implementing a phased migration strategy can determine the success of smooth platform transition. Start by doing a thorough assessment to identify dependencies, potential risks, and impact areas. Use blue-green or canary deployments to ensure seamless transition, where the new platform is tested with a subset of users before full deployment. Incorporate auto-scaling, redundancy, and failover mechanisms to handle unexpected issues. Maintain real-time monitoring to detect and address problems early. Ensure data sync between platforms, and have a rollback plan in place for immediate recovery if issues arise.

1) Business justification of this move-Choose migration strategy-Minimum changes to current Apps-Optimize components according to new Enviro 2)Carefully examine compatibility i.e. data loss, Pref thresholds 3)Phased migration-Think ‘Sand Box’-Start with non-critical workload or a pilot project to test process to identify issues 4)Leverage managed DB, serverless platforms & reduce need of manual Config & Mgmt. Avoid errors & potential downtime 5)Pre-Migration critical data backups 6)Encrypted data in transit, at rest during migration 7)Validation of data for accurate & complete transfer 8)Train resources on new platform-Prepare TS Guide for new platform 9) Post Migration review - Transparent communication with Stakeholder-Seek their feedback