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

A digital publishing company wants to migrate its legacy on-premises email marketing tool to a modern, cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution available in AWS Marketplace. Which migration strategy does this change represent?

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

Answer

Repurchasing
The correct answer is the strategy of moving to a different product, typically a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model. When a company abandons their legacy on-premises tool to adopt a SaaS solution (such as one found in AWS Marketplace), they are utilizing the Repurchasing migration strategy.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the migration requirement described in the scenario.
The company wants to move from an on-premises marketing tool to a ready-made SaaS solution in AWS Marketplace.
Understanding the target state helps match it to one of the 6 Rs of migration.
2
Evaluate the 6 Rs migration strategies against a transition to a SaaS platform.
Replacing a legacy self-managed system with a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform corresponds to the Repurchasing strategy.
Repurchasing is defined as moving to a different product, typically a cloud-hosted commercial software package or SaaS.

Key Concept

AWS Migration Strategies (6 Rs) - Repurchasing
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