Dear John

Thank you for posting the question. To share, Pega Cloud as well is powered on AWS. With Pega Cloud you will get the fastest time to value - https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/calling-web-services-between-two-pega-cloud-applications

That said, following are few of the top items to consider -

a. Determine how many environments are required - Development, staging, testing, production etc ?

b. Conduct a thorough Gap Analysis - moving to Cloud needs you to review your application integration, data management, DR, security, authorization and other key items

c. Review monitoring capabilities on offer on Cloud vs. what is needed by you and how to set it up ?

d. Discuss and agree on a project plan  - consider time to go-live, SDLC,

e. Review Cloud capacity on offer and related cost, so as to size your environments

f. Availability and SLA's

g. Self-services on offer

h. Support experience - 24x7 or during business hours etc.

Please let us know if there are any further questions.

Specific to Pega Cloud, if you are interested please get in touch with your Pega Account Executive.

Thanks,

Yesh