Exploring the Challenges of Cloud Migrations During a Global Pandemic

There are many benefits of migrating applications to the cloud, including highly available and elastic compute power, unlimited backup and storage, fully managed services, and overall cost savings. However, there are many challenges that software engineers face when migrating applications to the cloud. Even more challenges during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The focus of this paper is to shed light on the challenges software engineers face performing cloud migrations during a global pandemic. A proposed set of research questions will be used to determine the challenges remote software engineers face, as well as the tools and methodologies used during the cloud migration process. Future work will consist of building a process model by examining the current state of cloud migration approaches as well as new approaches due to a global pandemic.