Lift and Shift vs. Refactor: Choosing the Right AWS Migration Strategy
The debate over lift and shift versus refactoring is one of the most persistent in cloud migration planning. It’s also frequently framed as a binary choice when it shouldn’t be. Most organizations will do both — the question is which approach applies to which workload, and in what order. Getting this decision wrong is expensive. Over-refactoring adds months to migration timelines and cost that’s difficult to justify.