Lift-and-shift allows organizations to initially establish themselves on a cloud platform while attempting to keep a large component of their environment the same. This migration strategy allows efforts to be focused on the underlying services that have to change, and enables a faster move to the cloud. Lift-and-shift operations also keep costs low by eliminating code rewrites and database object changes.
After lift-and-shift, effort is placed on creating cloud-native solutions which exploit features of the cloud computing model such as:
Global Development
On-Demand Delivery
Pay-Per-Use
Elasticity
Scalability
Refactoring to cloud-native technologies enables developer productivity, business agility, scalability, availability and cost savings.