AWS Migration Consulting

The most common challenges when migrating to AWS include:

• Maintaining high resiliency and availability of your apps, as well as resilient connectivity
• Ensuring that you can store all logs centrally and collect all necessary metrics
• Calculating a budget before the migration and establishing clear financial KPIs
• Identifying AWS services that provide the required level of security
• Moving to AWS while maintaining the user experience and ensuring centralized monitoring and operation

They include:

• Having a clear vision of your goals and a migration plan
• Outlining how operations will change in AWS
• Ensuring security and compliance with industry-specific standards
• Adjusting internal processes to embrace the migration
• Training the staff about AWS (at least the basics)
• Planning future migration needs

And many more. So we advise you to partner up with a certified vendor with experience migrating servers to AWS first.

You can roughly divide it into three phases. First, you have to assess the readiness of your organization to work in the cloud. The most crucial thing at this point is to draft a business model for migration. In the next, mobilization phase, you draw up a migration plan that works with the business model and address the gaps identified in the previous phase. Only then, in the migration and modernization phase, can you start with the design, migration, and validation of each application.

The duration of the migration process differs from case to case, depending on factors like bandwidth, budget limitations, security issues, the type of cloud computing required, and whether your stack includes current or legacy technologies.

The main benefit of AWS migration is that you‘ll no longer need to take care of infrastructure; the cloud provider will manage it. Also, cloud services are less expensive than creating your own infrastructure, and the price of cloud computing continues to decline. With a cloud infrastructure, you pay only for the resources you use, substantially reducing your expenses. Two additional benefits of AWS, compared to local infrastructure, are improved data security and faster app deployment.