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Cloud Readiness Assessment

Is your organization ready to move to the cloud — and to run there?

The five things a migration fails on — a reason and an owner, knowing the estate, being able to run it, keeping it defensible, and the people and money to sustain it — as fifteen plain-language questions. Vendor-neutral, scored on screen, with a branded PDF report to keep.

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  • About 5 minutes
  • Vendor-neutral
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Before you start

Your level, five-dimension profile and recommendations appear on screen the moment you finish — no email, and the branded PDF report is yours to keep.

  1. 01Strategy & Business Case
  2. 02Applications & Data
  3. 03Platform & Operations
  4. 04Security & Compliance
  5. 05Team, Process & Cost
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Written by DigiWagon’s delivery practiceScored with the published DigiWagon Cloud Readiness FrameworkISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001 certifiedWork we’ve delivered

Who this is for

The flow

How it works

  1. 01Answer quick multiple-choice questions about how your estate is planned, built, secured and paid for today — options, not essays — with an optional industry lens.
  2. 02Get your readiness level and a five-dimension profile, scored against the published rubric, with the first three moves that would change it.
  3. 03Keep the branded PDF report, copy a link to share the result with your team, and send it through if a migration is on your roadmap.
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Every result is one level and five dimension scores — an example profile.

The framework

Five dimensions, scored in the open

Every answer carries zero to three points by the maturity it describes. Three questions per dimension give a dimension score out of nine; the five together map to one of four readiness levels. The rubric is published because a score you can't inspect isn't worth acting on.

0–3 per answer3 questions per dimensiondimension score out of 95 dimensionsyour result out of 45

All five dimensions weigh equally in v1 — deliberately, until real-world results earn differentiated weights. Framework v1 · September 2026.

Full methodology

The five dimensions

01

Strategy & Business Case

Whether the move has a stated reason, a scope and an owner — the outcomes each workload is supposed to deliver, which systems go first, and who is accountable for the program.

Why this matters

Migrations that start from a contract renewal or a vague instruction to modernize stall in month four, when the first hard trade-off has no owner to make it. A business case per workload is what turns 'move to the cloud' into decisions a team can execute.

  1. Why is your organization moving to the cloud?
  2. Do you know which workloads move first, and why?
  3. Who owns the cloud program?
02

Applications & Data

How well you understand the estate you are moving: every application and its dependencies, where the data lives and how much of it, and how fit each system is for the cloud as it stands.

Why this matters

The application you forgot to inventory is the one that breaks the cut-over, and data gravity — volumes, residency rules, the systems that must stay in sync — decides the cost and the timeline more than any compute choice. Knowing the estate is most of the work.

  1. Do you have a current inventory of applications and their dependencies?
  2. How well do you know your data — where it lives, how much, and where it is allowed to be?
  3. How cloud-fit are the applications as they stand?
03

Platform & Operations

Whether you can run what you move: environments as code, automated deployment with rollback, and the observability to know what is happening before a customer tells you.

Why this matters

The cloud's advantages are operational — elasticity, repeatability, fast recovery — and none of them arrive with a lift-and-shift onto hand-built servers. A landing zone, infrastructure as code and a delivery pipeline are what make the new estate cheaper to run than the old one.

  1. How are environments created and changed today?
  2. How does software reach production?
  3. How would you know something is wrong in production?
04

Security & Compliance

Whether identity, data protection and the compliance obligations that apply to you are designed into the target — not bolted on after the first audit question.

Why this matters

Cloud incidents are overwhelmingly configuration and identity failures, not provider failures, and regulated data — payment, health, personal — carries residency and control obligations that must be settled before a region is chosen. Security decided late is security redone.

  1. How is access to systems and data controlled?
  2. Do you know which regulations and data-protection duties apply to the data you are moving?
  3. How would security run in the cloud estate?
05

Team, Process & Cost

Whether the people, the operating model and the money are ready: cloud skills on the team, a way of working that fits shared responsibility, and a view of what the estate will cost once it runs.

Why this matters

The cloud bill is the surprise most migrations end on, and it is a governance failure, not a pricing one — untagged resources, environments nobody switches off, an operating model that never changed. Skills and cost governance decide whether the cloud pays back after year one.

  1. What cloud skills does the team have today?
  2. Do you know what the cloud estate will cost to run?
  3. How will the way you operate change with the move?

What your score means

Grounded0–13 of 45

The estate is not yet known well enough to move safely, and the move has no owner, no sequence and no cost model — which is the normal starting point, not a failing grade. The order of work is clear: an inventory, a business case per workload and a named owner come first, and each one closes several gaps at once.

Preparing14–24 of 45

Real foundations exist — some of the estate is mapped, some practices are automated, someone cares about the bill — but the pieces do not yet hold together, and migrations fail exactly at the joins: the dependency nobody drew, the environment built by hand, the regulation discovered mid-move. Finish each dimension's recommendation before the first wave.

Ready to Move25–35 of 45

You could start the first wave now. The remaining distance is between 'we have it' and 'it is universal': infrastructure as code for every environment, least privilege everywhere, a cost model per workload with governance switched on. Pick a first wave that proves the platform, and let the roadmap learn from it.

Cloud-Native36–45 of 45

This is the posture a migration partner hopes to inherit, and it compounds: waves land predictably, the estate stays cheaper to run than the one it replaced, and new products start on the platform instead of retrofitting to it. The work now is keeping it true through change — every new workload arrives inside the guardrails.

FAQ

About this assessment

Short answers to what people ask before they take it — including whether it picks a provider for you (it does not) and what to do with a low score.

01What is a cloud readiness assessment?

A cloud readiness assessment is a structured way to judge how prepared an organization is to move its applications and data to the cloud and run them there well. It looks at the strategy and business case, the application and data estate, platform operations, security and compliance, and the team and cost governance the move will need.

02Who should take this assessment?

Anyone responsible for a move to the cloud or for deciding whether to make one: CTOs and heads of engineering, IT and infrastructure leaders, product owners whose systems are candidates for migration, and founders weighing a data-center exit. The questions are in plain language — you need working knowledge of your systems, not certifications.

03Does the assessment recommend AWS, Azure or Google Cloud?

No. The assessment is vendor-neutral by design — it measures readiness, not provider choice, and no option names a platform as the right answer. Which provider fits depends on your existing skills, data residency requirements, licensing and workload shape, and that is a decision the assessment prepares you for rather than makes.

04What does the assessment cover?

Five dimensions with three questions each: strategy and business case, applications and data, platform and operations, security and compliance, and team, process and cost. Together they cover the five reasons migrations stall — no owner, an unknown estate, hand-built infrastructure, security decided late, and a cloud bill nobody governs.

05Do I need to share my email address to see the results?

No. Your level, the five-dimension profile and every recommendation appear on screen the moment you finish, the branded PDF report generates locally in your browser, and a copy-link option encodes your answers in the address bar so you can share the result with your team — nothing is stored on our side.

06What should we do after a low score?

Start with the dimension that scored lowest — its recommendation names the first concrete step, and the highest-leverage moves are usually an application inventory, a business case per workload and a named program owner. If a migration or a modernization is on your roadmap, send your results through and we will walk the gaps with you.

Planning a move to the cloud?

Send your results through and we'll walk the gaps with you — the inventory, the landing zone, the pipeline, the cost model — in a working session against your actual estate. Migration and modernization engineering that leaves you running the platform, not renting our attention.

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