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While a lot of organizations made the move to the cloud during the digital transformation boom over the past few years, many remain at a crossroads. They realize the powerful benefits of the public cloud and want to make the move, but they are so worried about the impact migrating complex, mission-critical workloads could have on business operations that they have yet to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this dilemma hits home, know that you\u2019re not alone\u2014and your concerns are understandable. Moving workloads that essentially run your business is a daunting prospect. But, it doesn\u2019t have to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In fact, it\u2019s entirely possible to develop a plan that ensures minimal risk and migration success. To demonstrate how and alleviate migration concerns, we recently participated in a webinar with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and our customer EDF UK<\/a>, one of the largest providers of power to U.K. businesses, that focused on executing successful a Oracle on AWS migration. In this blog post, we\u2019ll share highlights from that conversation, including reasons companies want to move to the cloud, common migration concerns, strategies for a successful migration, and a real-world Oracle-to-AWS migration example from EDF UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Companies can procrastinate for only so long before they come to a fork in the road that forces them to make a business-changing decision: continue to invest in on-premises technology or migrate enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and accompanying workloads to the public cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On our recent webinar, \u201cOracle on AWS: How to Successfully Migrate Mission-Critical Workloads,\u201d <\/a>Tom Camarro, VP of Solution Architecture at Navisite, part of Accenture, discussed a few common scenarios that put companies at this crossroads:<\/p>\n\n\n\n