You may deploy your application using containers or VMware appliances in your on-premise data center. You can move such workloads to the cloud using the accelerate migrations strategy known as relocate. Relocate helps you move hundreds of applications in days. You can quickly relocate applications based on VMware and container technologies to the cloud with minimal effort and complexity.

The relocation strategy does not require much upfront developer investment or an expensive test schedule since it provides the agility and automation you expect from the cloud. You need to determine existing configurations and use VMotion or Docker to relocate your servers to the cloud. VMotion is known for live migration. It's a VMware technology that enables a virtual instance to be moved from one physical host server to another without any interruption in the service. 

Customers typically use the relocating technique for the following reasons:

• Workloads have been deployed in the container 
• Applications have been deployed in VMware appliances 

VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS not only migrates applications, but it migrates thousands of virtual machines, live from individual application to your entire data centers. While migrating your application to the cloud, you may want to take the opportunity to rebuild and rearchitect your entire application to make it more cloud-native. The cloud-native approach allows you to use the full capability of the cloud. Let's learn more about the cloud-native approach.