AWS Cloud Migration Services

Thanks to migrating to the AWS cloud, you can reduce operational costs, avoid capital costs, and get the required level of scalability and reliability for your applications.

Moving to AWS allows organizations to innovate and adopt new technologies faster by doing more experiments and prototyping, and by utilizing modern, elastic, and cost-effective cloud environments.

An increased level of security protection and enhanced operational efficiency are the other advantages of having your business in the cloud.
Transition to AWS is a long-term winning strategy allowing businesses to leverage the multiple benefits of cloud economics.

Prior to migration, you need to understand the benefits of having your business in the cloud. Then, outline how your business will operate in a cloud and what business outcomes you want to achieve.

After that, AWS migration consulting experts analyze your current infrastructure, suggest the optimal AWS cloud migration strategy, and compose a detailed migration plan.

Then, your apps, data, and workflows are gradually migrated to AWS by the team of DevOps and cloud engineers.

As your applications start operating in the cloud, the old on-premises resources are being gradually switched off.

Even though every project is unique, the Migration to AWS could be divided into 6 fundamental steps:

Evaluation phase to understand the current IT setup, align expectations, collect business requirements, and outline business outcomes.

Planning phase to choose an optimal migration strategy, understand the scope of work, and produce a specific migration roadmap.

Prototyping phase to verify the chosen migration approach, minimize risks, and get a better visibility of the post-migration business value.

Migration phase is when the apps, data, and workloads are transferred to the cloud, and operations are configured according to the business requirements.

Testing phase ensures security, reliability, and compliance of the whole cloud environment including migrated apps and data.

Operation phase is when the migration project is completed. The business apps, databases, and cloud services together with operations and workloads are working smoothly.

Choosing the Migration Strategy is a key decision which impacts the scope of work, timelines, and budgets:

Rehost also known as a “lift-and-shift” approach is migrating AS IS, when the migration is done without implementing any cloud optimizations. It works well when the migration should be done quickly.

Relocate strategy is used when the apps, data, and operations need to be transferred to a cloud environment without any modifications. For instance, the relocate scenario is used to move the existing cloud infrastructures to another AWS Region or AWS account.

Replatform strategy works well when there is no need to change the application logic and architecture. However, the tangible benefits of using the Replatform approach are getting from switching on-premises databases and application servers to fully managed AWS cloud services and/or platforms.

Refactor strategy is chosen when it is required to re-architect the existing applications in order to add new features and meet business needs in scale and reliability. Refactor scenario can be the most beneficial strategy as it expects to use modern technology and cloud-native features.