From our experience, most migrations happen in phases to minimize risk and speed up time-to-production. The most common approach is to lift-and-shift (aka re-host) an application and its data with as few changes as possible. Once on AWS or Azure, you will unlock almost limitless possibilities to modernize, refactor or rearchitect application elements, leveraging cloud services and optimizations that provide the most significant benefits.
Service is performed in following steps:
- assess current application workloads, integrations, connections in and out of the application and its data
- select migration strategy/tools (containerization always considered) and prepare migration plan
- prepare AWS or Azure infrastructure, test configurations
- manual or automated lift-and-shift migration and testing
- prepare recommendations for further application modernization, containerization and rearchitecture to get most AWS or Azure cloud benefits
Results
By starting with lift-and-shift migration your business will get following benefits:
- quick solution for application performance or issues on legacy on-premises infrastructure
- horizontal scalability and performance optimization potential - easier to modernize and rearchitect application elements, leveraging cloud services and optimizations that providethe most significant benefits
- better availability and faster response for your application users globally
- extend support for your end-of-life Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008 on Azure
