US Patent 11637896 Migrating applications to a cloud-computing environment

A system and methods for migrating applications to a cloud-computing environment. In some examples, the method includes determining an application configuration for an application executed in a storage system generating, for one or more volumes associated with the application, one or more volume tags indicating the application configuration; replicating the one or more volumes to a cloud-computing environment, and generating, in the cloud-computing environment, based on the one or more volume tags, the application configuration for the application.