CloudzuCloudMigration

CloudzuCloudMigration is a cloud migration framework developed by Cloudzu to help organizations move workloads to cloud environments. It provides a structured process for planning, executing, and optimizing migrations with governance, security, and cost management.

It comprises artifacts and tools such as an application assessment engine, a migration planner, reference architectures, automation templates, and integrated security and compliance modules. The framework supports dependency mapping, data classification, and cloud-ready design patterns to guide workload migration.

CloudzuCloudMigration uses a phased methodology: assess, plan, migrate or transform, and optimize. The assess phase inventories applications and interdependencies; the plan phase defines strategies and sequencing; the migrate phase executes workloads with change control; the optimize phase tunes performance and cost.

Key capabilities include automated dependency and risk assessment, cost forecasting, templated deployment of cloud resources, built-in security baselines, and continuous governance through policy as code. The framework supports hybrid and multi-cloud deployments and provides monitoring dashboards.

Deployment models range from public cloud to multi-cloud and hybrid configurations. It emphasizes interoperability with common cloud providers, networking architectures, and data migration services, and integrates with existing IT operations and configuration management tooling.

Security and compliance are foundational, with features for identity and access management, encryption, key management, audit trails, and regulatory mapping. The framework promotes a risk-based migration approach and includes governance gates to enforce policies across environments.

Adoption considerations include organizational readiness, skill requirements, and initial migration cost. While suitable for many mid-sized to large enterprises, complex legacy applications may require custom modernization work. Benefits typically include reduced time to cloud, improved scalability, and better visibility into cloud spend.