All leading cloud providers have a well defined Cloud Adoption Framework that will help you shape up your cloud migration strategy. Customers would eventually end up with one of the 5 'R's of rationalization - Rehost(Lift&shift) , Refactor, Rearchitect, Rebuild or Replace. Once you have identified the approach , next steps would be planning and execution. However the best plans laid out by a professional services team can be driven off the track by customer specific environment challenges. If you are helping customers with cloud migration, here are few things that you might want to think through again and prepare for before you go all in . 1.Start with stakeholder buy in The first step called out in Azure Cloud Adoption Framework is Strategy or rather the motivation of the organization to move to cloud. Though this would usually be done in the presales phase and might have the buy in of the C-Suite, it is very important that this acceptance trickles down to stakeholde