  Todays Information Technology world is cloud-centric. Companies are intrigued
to migrate their workload private cloud from on-premise Datacenter to Public
cloud to take advantage of the latest innovations. It drives the business
growth and competitiveness of the organization. At the same time, it is
important for Enterprise Architects to understand the drawbacks and challenges
to migrate the workload to Cloud. This paper aims to identify the key factors
to migrate the workload to the cloud. It also helps an organization to identify
the candidate for cloud migration. An impulsive decision to move to the Cloud
may be detrimental to an organization. Also, I will discuss one case study to
see the benefits and disadvantages of cloud migration. This will help the
organization to maximize its ROI.
