Illustrative cloud environment
Understand the platform
AWS offers cloud infrastructure and managed services. The first decision is what your workload needs: move it with limited changes, adapt it to a managed service, or redesign selected components.
What the main services mean
Compute
Run an application on virtual servers or assess another supported hosting model.
Object storage
Store files and objects with defined permissions, lifecycle and recovery requirements.
Managed databases
Assess database compatibility, features, connections and recovery before moving.
Networking and access
Define private networks, connectivity, resource permissions and administrator access.
Monitoring and costs
Agree logs, alert ownership, budgets and recurring cost review.
Migration approach
Assess
Inventory workloads and review technical readiness and business objectives.
Mobilise
Prepare the environment, skills, operating model and a pilot migration.
Migrate and modernise
Move agreed workload groups, validate them and apply scoped improvements.
Handover
Document operational access, backup, monitoring and escalation arrangements.
When to assess this platform
Assess AWS when your application and operational requirements align with its infrastructure and managed services. A platform name alone is not a migration strategy.
Before we propose a migration
We need workload owners, an inventory, resource usage, dependencies, data volumes, licence requirements and acceptable downtime. The region, security responsibilities and recurring budget are agreed before implementation.
What the assessment should produce
- Workload inventory and fit assessment
- Target environment and responsibility map
- Migration waves, validation and rollback criteria
- Provider cost assumptions and implementation scope
- Handover, monitoring and recovery ownership
Official platform resources
Read the official migration guidance and use the provider pricing calculator for current configuration-specific estimates.
Platform names identify environments for assessment. Partnership, certification and project delivery scope are not implied.