AWS Migration Acceleration Program for VMware

VMware workloads have long been a cornerstone of many enterprise IT environments. However, as business needs evolve, many organizations are currently evaluating how best to run these workloads – whether to migrate to the cloud or to remain on-premises.

A move to AWS offers benefits that empower organizations to streamline operations, enhance agility, and drive innovation while reducing technical debt. The cloud’s scalable and elastic resources allows businesses to provision compute power on demand to meet dynamic workload requirements. This flexibility not only optimizes resource utilization but also translates to cost savings, as organizations pay only for the resources they consume.

For organizations seeking to unlock these benefits while migrating and modernizing their VMware-based workloads, we are thrilled to announce that the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) has been expanded to further support VMware workload migrations. MAP is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program that uses AWS’s experience in migrating hundreds of thousands of enterprise workloads to accelerate and simplify migration to the cloud. With the expansion of MAP, AWS provides access to tools, frameworks, resources, and training specific to migrating VMware workloads to AWS.

MAP has helped customers like Guardian Life migrate over 90 applications across 1,200 instances in 18 months, News Corp consolidate 56 data centers down to 6 and move 75% of their infrastructure to the cloud, and Newsweek reduce overall monthly operating costs by 75%. These are just a few examples of how MAP has helped customers realize increased cost savings (1.5X), staff productivity (5.7X), business agility (4.3X), and operational resilience (1.7X) compared to migrations without MAP.

Whether you’re looking to rehost existing VMware-based workloads on AWS, replatform on fully managed AWS services, or completely re-architect your applications using modern cloud services, AWS MAP provides the guidance and expertise you need to navigate the journey successfully. With MAP, organizations can leverage proven methodologies and best practices to build a strong AWS cloud foundation, accelerate initiatives, and reduce risk and costs.

In summary, MAP together with AWS certified migration partners provide:

• No-cost Optimization and Licensing Assessments (OLA) to identify opportunities to right-size resources and reduce licensing spend. AWS Finance benchmark data identified that customers who used OLA benefited from a 36% reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO).
• AWS provided licenses of AWS validated tools from Cast, Cloudamize, CloudHedge, Concierto, Device42, Matilda Cloud, MontyCloud, RiverMeadow, and Trianz, and other select partners for qualified migrations.
• AWS investments, in the form AWS service credits or partner investments, intended to help customers offset one-time migration expenses for qualified migrations.
• Proven methodologies, frameworks, tools, best practices, and expertise.
• Over 500 training courses including Migrating VMware Workloads to AWS and Migration Foundations Readiness Path to build cloud skills and ready IT teams.

We are ready to help

We are ready to support your journey to the cloud with the most comprehensive capabilities, tools, programs, and expertise, including an unmatched breadth of services, training, and resources. Whether you’re looking to optimize costs, enhance scalability, or unlock new innovation opportunities, start now by requesting a complimentary Migration Assessment.

Additionally, explore our complimentary training modules, Migrating VMware Workloads to AWS and Migration Foundations Readiness Path, to learn best practices and see how it’s done.

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