Right Cloud Decision Tool (draft)

Sensitivity

• Stakeholders have not raised concerns regarding the sensitivity of the data.
• Stakeholders view the sensitivity of the data to be high.

Financial

• Budget is available to support an Operational Expense Model; the costs will rise and fall with the consumption of resources.
• Budget is available to support a Capital Expense Model; ability to plan for periodic investments in ever greening infrastructure and innovation.

Legacy

• Application can operate in a cloud environment and the required virtualized or dedicated hardware is available in a cloud environment.
• Application needs to operate in a non-cloud environment and required highly specialized, dedicated, hardware.

Commoditized

• Application can operate on the standardized offerings and SLAs of public cloud.
• Application requires customized offering and SLAs.

Location

• Application is not susceptible to latency issues that may arise due to traffic moving through an additional circuit.
• Application is susceptible to latency issues that may arise due to traffic moving through an additional circuit.

Connectivity

• Application does not have voluminous transactions with an on-premises database or application.
• Application has voluminous transactions with an on-premises database or application.

Speed

• Rapid access to services is desired. Are the required services available on-demand?
• Can tolerate the time required to implement the services that may not currently be available on-demand.

Longevity The applications is expected to meet a

• Short-term need
• Long-term need

Elasticity With time, the resource requirements of the application will

• Remain stable
• Grow or shrink

Innovation

• Project will want to take advantage of new technology trends as they become available to the market.
• Application does not want to take advantage of new technology trends and will remain static.
• No new technology is required.

DevOps

• Desire rapid access to a suite of tools to support application development as platform services without making a capital investment.
• Willing to invest to deploy application development tools to support project.