• App to App dependency (Internal and External) needs protocol transformation for cloud deployment
• COTS products current license is not supported for cloud deployment
• Gaps in Application grouping and Sequencing also known as Wave Plan and Detailed Migration Plan for each wave
• IP based configurations that sometime even hard coded in the application code
• Application platform components clustering protocol not supported in the cloud
• App to Infrastructure dependency needs architecture transformation for cloud deployment
• Application platform components and underlying middleware & operating systems has direct binding with the server hardware platform
• Application system architecture needs to be revised for matching the current performance baseline
• User functionality and experience impacts by network latency sometime needs to be addressed by re-design of the application architecture
• Transformation of proprietary implementation of Load Balancers and Security Controls in WAF, Firewall, IPS/IDS etc.
• Transformation of services/systems deployment life cycle management tools and processes such as monitoring, backup and recovery, automation (config, build, patch and deploy), ITIL etc.

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