Cloud Portability is the ability to transfer or re-realize applications, data, configurations, workloads, or infrastructure intent between cloud environments while preserving defined characteristics.
The transferred or re-realized subject may include:
The characteristics preserved during transfer or re-realization may include:
Cloud Portability may require:
Cloud Portability differs from interoperability:
Cloud Portability also differs from migration:
portability that enables an application, workload, data set, configuration, or infrastructure specification to be transferred or re-realized between cloud environments while preserving defined characteristics
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Cloud Portability does not require identical implementations across cloud environments.
A portable realization may use different:
The applicable requirements determine which characteristics must remain equivalent after transfer or re-realization.
Cloud Portability may be limited by:
Cloud Portability does not by itself establish that migration is automated, cost-free, lossless, or possible without modification.
A platform-independent Infrastructure Blueprint is realized on two cloud providers by mapping its compute, storage, networking, identity, and monitoring requirements to each provider's services. Each resulting Infrastructure Environment satisfies the same defined Acceptance Criteria even though the Platform Specific Information differs.
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