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CompTIA Cloud+ CV0-004 · Domain 2: Deployment

Migration strategies: rehost, replatform, refactor, repurchase, retire and retain

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

When an organization moves applications to the cloud, each application gets a migration strategy. The common list, often called the 6 Rs, is part of the Cloud+ vocabulary. Some frameworks add a seventh, relocate, for moving whole virtualized environments to a cloud-hosted version of the same hypervisor platform.

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