Business Solution · Cloud migration & modernization planning

Plan cloud migration around real hosting dependencies.

Model environments, infrastructure, and migrates_to relationships alongside your applications. Scapius renders hosting and lineage views that show what still depends on legacy infrastructure before you sequence each move.

Why this is hard today

Migrating core platforms to the cloud often stalls or causes operational disruption because teams cannot clearly see which services, databases, and network zones still depend on legacy infrastructure.

Hosting matrix view displaying application deployment across AWS cloud and legacy mainframe environments.

Hosting matrix view mapping applications to AWS cloud infrastructure and on-premises datacenter nodes.Enlarge

Why the hosting matrix brings clarity

Compute visibility

Delineate modern cloud Kubernetes clusters from legacy on-premises infrastructure.

Hosting relationships

Know exactly where each service runs and which infrastructure nodes support it.

Perimeter oversight

Flag internet-facing boundaries and exposed endpoints across infrastructure zones.

Full-stack technology footprint

Cross-layer lineage

Trace business goals down through microservices to the underlying cloud compute pods.

Integration contracts

Document interface protocols, ports, and service bindings in the model graph.

Shared infrastructure

Uncover hidden shared components to prevent cascading outages during migration waves.

Cross-layer lineage tracing strategic growth targets through processes down to cloud Kubernetes clusters.Enlarge

Decisions enabled

Decisions informed by this model

Direct model queries replace subjective opinions with objective architecture evidence for leadership discussions.

Migration blueprint

Gives migration teams a validated blueprint of legacy infrastructure and target cloud environments.

Transition adapters

Ensures all upstream and downstream service dependencies have documented transition adapters.

Verifiable roadmaps

Communicates migration progress and decommission dates to steering committees with verifiable roadmaps.

Key review question

“What legacy services still lack a planned cloud migration target or retirement date?”

How your architects maintain it

Defined as clear, structured text

Architects define environments, compute infrastructure, and explicit migrates_to relationships. When you add a new microservice to cloud infrastructure, query-based views update automatically without manual redrawing.

technology/environments.ea

DSL

infrastructure inf_ibm_z16 "IBM z16 Mainframe" {
    time "Eliminate"
    cost {
        amount 650000
        unit year
    }
    relationships {
        this hosts system_core_banking "Hosts legacy transactional ledger system"
        this migrates_to env_aws_prod "Planned migration to AWS cloud core by 2027"
    }
}