Cloud readiness check for a controlled migration
Assess applications, data, security, operations, and migration planning from maturity level 1 to 4. Results remain local and can be exported as TXT.
Free maturity check
Assess cloud readiness across five connected domains
Cloud capability is not a yes-or-no property of an application. It emerges from known dependencies, controlled data, verifiable security, automatable operations, and a realistic migration approach. The check exposes these perspectives separately and summarizes them as one maturity level with concrete priorities. Every answer remains in the browser.
Domain 1 of 5: Applications
Assess cloud readiness across five domains
The assessment runs entirely in your browser.
Understand applications and data before selecting a platform
An application inventory should contain more than a name, server, and responsible person. Record users, business processes, runtime patterns, data flows, interfaces, licenses, and recovery expectations. These relationships reveal whether a system can move independently or needs to form a migration wave with connected components.
Do not judge architecture through fashionable terminology. A stable monolith may be a sensible candidate for unchanged relocation. Another service may need decoupling because local file systems, fixed network addresses, or stateful sessions constrain operation. Professional cloud migration with an evidence-based target state evaluates those options per application.
Data needs classification, accountable owners, and quality rules. Clarify location, sensitivity, retention, deletion, residency, and permitted transfers. Otherwise migration copies duplicates, unclear permissions, and historic ownership problems together with the useful information.
Evidence for the technical baseline
- Inventory: Applications, versions, owners, and criticality are fully recorded.
- Dependencies: Interfaces, jobs, certificates, and network paths are traceable.
- Load: Normal use, peaks, growth, and relevant response times are known.
- Data: Sensitivity, authoritative sources, quality, and retention are decided.
- Recovery: Recovery objectives have business justification and practical tests.
Missing evidence does not make migration impossible. It defines preparation work. A limited pilot should investigate the largest unresolved assumption and deliver measurable learning for later waves.
Plan security, operations, and migration as one system
Cloud security begins with identity and ownership. Define roles through least privilege, separate administrative accounts, and automate the permission lifecycle. Encryption requires key ownership and recovery procedures. Logs should reveal relevant events without collecting sensitive content unnecessarily.
A dependable operating model includes reproducible deployment, observability, backup, incident response, capacity, and cost controls. Managed services reduce selected technical tasks but do not remove accountability. Teams must understand which outcomes the provider guarantees and which configuration, data quality, or recovery activities remain with them.
Migration should proceed in waves with explicit scope, acceptance, and fallback. Before transition, test a data sample, performance, permissions, monitoring, and support. Each wave needs stabilization and measurable criteria for retiring old resources. Legacy modernization may be appropriate when relocation alone would preserve technical constraints and operating cost.
The TXT assessment prioritizes the weakest domains. Add an owner, expected evidence, and target date to every step. “Improve security” then becomes a testable action covering role design, MFA, key rotation, and alerting. The result can become a roadmap without prematurely selecting a platform.
Economics comes from measurable value rather than cloud adoption itself. Compare operations, changeability, outage exposure, and internal capacity over a useful period. Avoid both a blanket cloud mandate and keeping the current estate without renewed scrutiny.
Include exit and reversibility in the target design. Document data export, configuration ownership, infrastructure definitions, and recovery outside the primary environment. This does not assume failure; it preserves operational choice and strengthens incident preparedness.
Cloud engineering Made in Germany from Leer
Groenewold IT Solutions supports discovery, modernization, and migration from Leer in East Frisia. Made in Germany means controllable architecture, documented security choices, and stable operations. Use our project check for your cloud roadmap to refine the local maturity assessment.
Cloud readiness check FAQ
What does the cloud readiness check assess?
It assesses applications, data, security, operations, and migration on a transparent scale from 1 to 4. The result includes an overall maturity level and three prioritized next steps.
Does the result automatically recommend a particular cloud?
No. The tool evaluates prerequisites, not a provider. Target platform, operating model, and migration path must be selected through requirements, privacy, architecture, and economics.
Does a high maturity level mean immediate migration?
No. Mature organizations still evaluate business value, risk, and dependencies per application. Some systems deliberately remain, are modernized, or move only in part.
Are infrastructure details stored?
No. Answers, maturity calculation, and TXT download run entirely in the browser. No details are transmitted to a server.