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For years, the cloud migration business case was framed around one comparison: “Will AWS be cheaper than our data center?” That question still matters, but it is no longer where the value is. The 2017-2024 wave of mass migration is largely complete. Most enterprise workloads are already in the cloud - often in a lift-and-shift state: oversized instances, commercial-OS BYOL, on-prem-shaped network designs, and legacy frameworks that block the next step.

Infrastructure assessment tools scan your servers and estimate migration cost based on CPU, memory, and storage. They do not read your application code. Applications that appear migration-ready at the infrastructure layer may contain thousands of lines of code that block cloud adoption. Without code-level visibility, teams cannot make accurate 6R decisions.

Modernization assessments move faster when the structure is already in place. Instead of recreating custom fields, interview questions, and assessment workflows for every customer, you can use a custom field template to standardize how data is collected from the start. This guide shows you how to create a reusable Tidal Accelerator custom field template using Node.js and the Tidal API, so your assessments are easier to repeat, compare, and scale. So you’re starting a modernization practice.

Managing DHCP across distributed networks gets messy fast. Lease activity changes constantly. Naming conventions drift. Infrastructure changes happen independently across locations. Before long, your team no longer has a complete view of what’s happening across the network. What started as a straightforward service becomes a records problem with real operational consequences.