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Migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud is fundamentally different from migrating less critical applications and processes to the cloud. Picking the right cloud hosting provider is among the most important decisions you'll make when planning the migration of your Tier 1 applications. After all, cloud providers that typically focus on developer services can quickly find themselves out of their depth when dealing with production applications.

"The requirements and capabilities that an organization needs when running a production application are very different than one that's catering to developers," says Craig McLellan, cloud architecture author and chief technology officer of Hosting.com.

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Tier 1 applications often stand to benefit the most from the efficiency and scalability offered by a cloud environment:

Consolidation and infrastructure efficiency

Faster provisioning of applications and better configuration management

Universal high-availability services

Automated resource optimization, and dynamic scaling of applications.

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5 Signs Your Cloud Service Provider Can't Handle Tier 1 Apps