Tag: AWS Migration Accelerator Program

AWS Partners are building successful migration and modernization practices to help customers with their workloads, and partners are leveraging AWS Partner Funding programs to sell more projects and grow their AWS businesses. Based on past successes and feedback from AWS Partners, customers, and the AWS field, we have consolidated several migration funding programs into the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). These changes will help fund small and large migrations to AWS across different workloads.

This post explains the challenges faced by customers running SAP ECC environments on premises and how IBM can accelerate their S/4 HANA transformation journey to AWS. The IBM Accelerated Move Centre (AMC) delivers a cost-effective approach to SAP S/4HANA transformations, enabling customers to migrate and modernize, utilize existing investments, reduce costs, and embrace cloud innovations. IBM has nearly 50 years of experience in the industry, and has completed more than 6,500 SAP projects.

We are excited to launch the AWS Mainframe Modernization service, a unique platform for mainframe migration and modernization allowing customers and partners to plan, migrate, modernize, and run their on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed development and execution environment on AWS. The service enables two proven and popular patterns—replatforming and automated refactoring—and has the goal of mitigating the risks and accelerating mainframe-to-cloud projects.

As a global AWS Distributor, Ingram Micro Cloud has a reach of over 1,000 AWS Partners in the AWS Partner Network and supports hundreds of partners from the registered level all the way to Premier Partners in both commercial and the public sector. AWS Distributors like Ingram Micro Cloud work closely with AWS to serve as an extension of the AWS field teams. They are key contributors in enabling partner growth and APN advancement, opportunity acceleration, and speed to market.

Cognizant is providing consulting and execution services for SAP customers to migrate the SAP landscape from on-premises to AWS, with SAP S/4HANA implementation on AWS combining SAP S/4HANA conversion and migration to AWS in a single step using the Cognizant migration factory called SmartMove. This solution provides a risk-free, comprehensive solution to transform customers’ SAP landscape into one that’s intelligent enterprise-ready.

Cloud is on the business transformation agenda for customers all across the world, and CIOs acknowledge how critical it is for them to have partners with the right set of skills to achieve the desired pace of transformation. At AWS, we see our Global System Integrator (GSI) partners offer customers advisory services along with the skilled resources required to take ideas to completion and enable digital transformation regardless of industry.

For more than a decade, customers have run their most strategic workloads on AWS, including SAP, VMware, and Windows, due to AWS’s experience, maturity, reliability, security, and performance. While an increasing amount of customers are migrating their strategic workloads to AWS, the majority of businesses still run these critical workloads on-premises. AWS Partners serve as trusted advisors to many of these customers, supporting their migration and innovation journeys on the AWS Cloud.

In her role leading the Worldwide Public Sector Partners and Programs team at AWS, Sandy Carter gets a firsthand look at the value and impact AWS Partners have on customers all over the world. Learn how AWS Public Sector Partners are helping customers address the needs and challenges they face today, and how the AWS Public Sector Partner Program helps organizations grow their business and focus on mission-based solutions.

Running SAP on the cloud can help customers reduce total cost of ownership, increase agility, and create a competitive advantage out of SAP systems and data. To capitalize on these benefits, organizations need a cloud provider and migration partner that can help them migrate quickly and reliably. Learn how Accenture’s Cloud Migration Factory, Data Lake Accelerator, and Cloud Suite help customers more effectively achieve their SAP strategies on AWS.