Validation and prediction of cloud readiness

A computer-readable storage medium bearing computer-executable instructions which, when executed on a computing system comprising at least a processor, carry out a method for validation and prediction of cloud readiness, the method comprising:

• identifying a sample of components from a cloud infrastructure, wherein at least one of a hardware update or a software update is applied to the sample to generate a treated sample and the treated sample is of a statistically sufficient scale and a relevant cloud-level diversity, and wherein the treated sample comprises at least one of a hardware configuration or a software configuration of the components with the at least one of the hardware update or the software update applied;
• identifying a control sample of components from the cloud infrastructure, wherein the control sample is statistically comparable to the treated sample, and wherein the control sample comprises at least one a hardware configuration or a software configurations of the components without the at least one of the hardware update or the software update applied;
• executing a set of workloads on the treated sample and the control sample;
• and
• predicting an impact of the at least one of the hardware update or the software update on a user experience based on a comparison of telemetry captured during execution of the set of workloads on the treated sample and the control sample.