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title: "Cloud Migration — Definition & Engineering Context"
description: "Cloud migration is the strategic process of moving an organization's digital assets, legacy database systems, servers, and business applications from on-premises hardware or legacy datacenters into a modern cloud hosting infrastructure."
canonical: https://erpstack.io/glossary/cloud-migration
markdown_url: https://erpstack.io/glossary/cloud-migration.md
publisher: ERPStack
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# Cloud Migration

> **Definition:** Cloud migration is the strategic process of moving an organization's digital assets, legacy database systems, servers, and business applications from on-premises hardware or legacy datacenters into a modern cloud hosting infrastructure.

## In depth

Migrating legacy systems to the cloud is a critical step in modernizing business operations. Many corporations run on old, physical servers located in their offices, which are expensive to maintain, vulnerable to physical damage, and difficult to scale. A cloud migration project involves data extraction, application modernization, and VPC network setup.

## How ERPStack applies this

We design and execute cloud migration pipelines, migrating legacy database systems to AWS or Vercel. We configure secure, private database subnets and implement auto-scaling server configurations to lower your running costs.

## Related reading

- [Resource Planning & ERP](https://erpstack.io/glossary/erp)
- [Technical Debt](https://erpstack.io/glossary/tech-debt)