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Difficulty: EasyUnderstand the benefits of and strategies for migration to the AWS Cloud

Veridian Dynamics is planning to migrate its legacy on-premises customer relationship management (CRM) system to the cloud. The company decides to decommission the legacy system and purchase a modern Software as a Service (SaaS) CRM platform from the AWS Marketplace. Which migration strategy does this scenario represent?

  1. A
    Rehosting
  2. RepurchasingAnswer
  3. C
    Replatforming
  4. D
    Refactoring

Answer

Repurchasing
The scenario describes repurchasing, which is a migration strategy where a company decides to replace its existing legacy system by purchasing a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, often from the AWS Marketplace.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the scenario and identify the migration action taken.
The company is replacing its legacy customer relationship management (CRM) software by purchasing a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.
Determining the migration mechanism (replace vs. shift vs. rewrite) is the first step in classifying the migration strategy.
2
Map the action to one of the 6 Rs of migration strategies.
Purchasing a SaaS solution to replace a legacy workload maps to the Repurchasing strategy.
Repurchasing is defined as moving to a different product, typically a SaaS platform.

Key Concept

Repurchasing migration strategy
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