This report delves into the complexities of cloud migration, specifically focusing on the implementation of a hybrid cloud architecture for Regional Gardens. It begins by categorizing cloud architectures based on service and deployment models, including Platform-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Software-as-a-Service, and public, private, and hybrid cloud deployments. The report emphasizes the advantages and disadvantages of hybrid cloud, including its flexibility and security benefits, while also addressing network complexity and redundancy concerns. A detailed risk assessment is provided, identifying potential challenges in architecture design, security, and strategy development, along with proposed solutions. The report outlines key steps for ensuring information security in a hybrid cloud environment and highlights important factors for business continuity planning (BCP). Furthermore, it includes a checklist for Regional Gardens, covering billing, security management, asset management, resilience, backup, and monitoring. Finally, the report concludes with a step-by-step guide for migrating eMail to the AWS cloud, covering assessment, proof of concept, data migration, application migration, cloud leverage, and optimization phases, to provide a comprehensive overview of the cloud migration process.