The Lift and Shift Illusion: Carrying Legacy Database Debt into Modern Cloud ERPs
Cloud Evolution The Lift and Shift Illusion: Carrying Legacy Database Debt into Modern Cloud ERPs System integrators actively sell the concept of rapid cloud migration via direct infrastructure replication. Yet, moving unoptimized, un-refactored relational data blocks into a web-scale environment introduces massive query latency bottlenecks. The Failure to Modernize Data Schema During Migration General digital transformation brochures celebrate cloud scalability as a cure-all for operational slowness. What they minimize is schema mismatch. When an organization copies an on-premise transactional database model straight into a multi-tenant cloud ERP without normalizing tables or cleaning redundant operational logs, the new system encounters heavy indexing penalties, driving subscription usage costs through the roof without yielding performance gains. 💡 Critical Architecture Policy ...