Lift and shift is a strategy for migrating legacy applications to the cloud,
taking them offline first before uploading them to the cloud. Once
uploaded, a lift and shift approach can make use of infrastructure as a
service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) or software as a service (SaaS).
With an innovative lift-and-shift approach, data first needs to be uploaded
into cloud storage before it can be used by developers running future
features for their new cloud-based application. Once everything has been
uploaded, a lift-and-shift approach can then be used again to add new
features for users both efficiently and effectively.