Planning to Optimization: How ElastiFlow Simplifies Cloud Migration • ElastiFlow

Overcoming Cloud Migration Challenges

Cloud migration is a critical step for organizations aiming to scale, optimize costs, and become more agile – however, it also introduces significant challenges during this transition. Visibility gaps, security risks, soaring data egress costs, and performance bottlenecks can quickly turn a promising migration into an operational nightmare.

ElastiFlow’s end-to-end observability solution addresses these challenges by providing real-time insights across hybrid and multi-cloud networks. Let's explore the most common cloud migration pain points and how ElastiFlow helps overcome them:

The Top Challenges of Cloud Migration

1. Planning

When planning your cloud migration, you’re going to encounter these questions: How do I select a region to deploy an application? What other systems might need to be moved along with the application? What policy rules need to be set to ensure connectivity?

How ElastiFlow: ElastiFlow simplifies cloud migration planning by providing complete visibility into all connections and dependencies an application or service relies on. We empower teams to accurately map out connectivity requirements, ensuring the correct policies are in place before migration begins. ElastiFlow provides intuitive visualizations to enable teams to compare pre- and post-migration traffic flow, verifying that all critical connections remain intact and applications function as expected in their new cloud environment.

2. Loss of Network Visibility

Traditional on-prem environments offer full control over network traffic, but in the cloud, visibility is often fragmented. Cloud-native tools provide basic monitoring but rarely offer the analysis needed to diagnose performance issues or security risks.

How ElastiFlow Fixes It: ElastiFlow provides a centralized view of network traffic by collecting and normalizing flow data (NetFlow, IPFIX, sFlow) and cloud-specific telemetry to give you an unfiltered look at traffic patterns, behaviors, and anomalies across hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. Easily identify application connections and traffic details by filtering by IP address or service name. Intuitive visualizations show all traffic sources and destinations, complete with port and protocol information.

3. Security and Compliance Risks

Cloud environments introduce an expanding attack surface and new security challenges. Reports from the Cloud Security Alliance show that misconfigurations continue to be the number one vulnerability in the cloud. Security teams need real-time visibility with actionable insights to fuel threat detection and response without having to toggle between disparate solutions and manually correlate data.

How ElastiFlow Fixes It: ElastiFlow enriches netflow data with context specific to your organization and provides real-time threat detection to flag suspicious activity before an alert becomes an event. Immediate insights and visualizations enable teams to detect and resolve misconfigurations or connectivity issues. With ElastiFlow, you can effortlessly enforce security policies and maintain compliance.

4. Performance Bottlenecks and Application Latency

Applications that worked seamlessly on-premises may experience some difficulties in the cloud due to factors like inefficient routing, bandwidth limitations, or noisy neighbors. Teams need to be able to quickly identify what is plaguing the network to ensure a seamless user experience.

How ElastiFlow Fixes It: ElastiFlow provides deep visibility into network traffic to pinpoint congestion, top talkers, inefficient routing, and performance bottlenecks in real time. Identify high-latency paths, bandwidth constraints, and inefficient routing that impact application performance. By proactively detecting and alerting on degraded network performance, ElastiFlow ensures seamless user experiences and maintains optimal application responsiveness.

5. Complexity of Hybrid and Multi-Cloud

The majority of organizations adopt a hybrid or multi-cloud approach to avoid vendor lock-in and optimize workloads. However, managing multiple cloud environments introduces complexity in network monitoring and security enforcement, as each provider has its own tools, metrics, and blind spots.

How ElastiFlow Fixes It: ElastiFlow provides a unified view of network traffic by aggregating and normalizing flow data across the entire network, regardless of where your assets reside. This centralized visibility eliminates inconsistencies and simplifies troubleshooting, enabling IT teams to monitor traffic flows, detect anomalies, and optimize performance without siloed tools. With ElastiFlow, organizations can effectively manage hybrid and multi-cloud environments with greater efficiency, security, and operational clarity.

6. Soaring Data Egress Costs

Data egress costs—the cost of moving data out of the cloud—can be a major and often overlooked expense in cloud migration. These charges vary by provider and can quickly add up, especially for businesses with high outbound traffic. Organizations can get blindsided by unexpectedly large bills from cloud service providers and struggle with a lack of visibility to understand where those costs are coming from.

How ElastiFlow Fixes it: ElastiFlow helps mitigate these costs by providing a clear picture of how traffic moves and the source of traffic spikes, allowing organizations to analyze and optimize data movement. Alerts notify teams of high and anomalous traffic volumes. With real-time insights, organizations can identify inefficient transfers, adjust workloads, and implement cost-saving strategies.

Why ElastiFlow?

From migration planning to post-migration verification, ElastiFlow provides the visibility and insights needed to migrate with confidence. Eliminate guess work, mitigate security risks, and optimize cloud performance with a data-driven approach.

From Planning to Optimization: How ElastiFlow Simplifies Cloud Migration