Assess current IT infrastructure Define migration goals and requirements Inventory all workloads, applications, and databases Risk assessment and compliance review Identify stakeholders and assign roles

Choose cloud provider & services Decide on migration strategy (lift & shift, refactor, etc.) Plan network architecture & connectivity Data migration planning Security & permissions planning

Provision cloud resources Setup cloud environment Migrate data & applications Validate and test workloads in cloud

Performance optimization Implement monitoring & logging Review & setup cost management User training and knowledge transfer Decommission old systems