AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
Category: MIgration Evaluator
Create a data-driven Migration Business Case using AWS Cloud Value Framework
AWS customers realize more than a 5:1 ratio of benefits to investment costs over five years with breakeven on their investment occurring in an average of 10 months (source: “The Business Value of Amazon Web Services”, an IDC whitepaper). This blog aims to help Information Technology (IT) teams calculate this value using the tools needed […]
Anonymizing Sensitive Data of the Migration Evaluator’s Export File
1. Introduction Migration Evaluator is a complimentary migration assessment service that helps customers to create a data-driven directional business case for migrating workloads to AWS. It includes a data collection tool that discovers server workloads running on-premises, along with their utilization patterns. Data from the Migration Evaluator collector needs to be received by the AWS […]
Manage EC2 Launch Templates at scale during rehost migrations with AWS MGN
Many customers rehost their environments to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), and have to prepare future-state configuration for every server they are migrating within each migration wave. When a migration wave includes multiple servers, customers have to manually configure multiple EC2 Launch Templates in the AWS console. For each server migrated using AWS […]
How to drive the discussions around carbon footprint reduction to support modernization and migration to the Cloud?
A Gartner, Inc. survey revealed that 87% of business leaders expect to increase their organization’s investment in sustainability over the next two years. This blog aims to equip Information Technology (IT) teams with the necessary resources to start the conversation with business leaders and prepare a compelling business case that highlights the opportunity for carbon […]
The Importance of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Large-Scale Cloud Migrations
Key performance indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable measurements that help you understand how well you’re performing in specific areas. For example, from an incident management perspective, you may measure the mean time to recovery to understand how long it takes to recover following an incident. Large-scale enterprise migration programs (such as vacating a data center or […]
Automating custom cost and usage tracking for member account owners in the AWS Migration Acceleration Program
This blog post was contributed by Kanishk Mahajan, AWS and Kalpana Roge, McAfee The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a cloud migration program that helps enterprises achieve business benefits by migrating existing workloads to Amazon Web Services. MAP provides consulting support, training, and credits on AWS services to reduce risk, build a strong operational […]