Application Migration Strategies: “The 6 R’s”

• Rehosting — Known as “lift-and-shift.
• Replatforming — Known as  “lift-tinker-and-shift.
• Repurchasing — Moving to a different product.
• Refactoring / Re-architecting — Re-imagining how the application is architected and developed, typically using cloud-native features.
• Retire — Decommission
• Retain — Usually this means “revisit” or do nothing (for now).