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Manage migrations to multiple AWS Accounts using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) and AWS Organizations

Many customers have successfully migrated on-premises or cloud-based applications to AWS using the AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN). Customers commonly migrate their applications to a number of different AWS Accounts that are part of an AWS Organization, in line with the best practices of establishing a multi-account AWS environment. When using AWS MGN, the […]

Accelerating large-scale cloud migrations with repeatable patterns

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers initiate large-scale cloud migrations to achieve specific business outcomes. The reasons for migration include consolidating or vacating data centres, adopting a cloud-first strategy, increasing agility and staff productivity, and reducing the total cost of ownership for IT. Using repeatable patterns for migrating workloads are a great way to jumpstart […]

Using Single Sign-on with Azure Active Directory and Cloud Migration Factory for simplified identity management

In this blog post we’ll look at how to configure the AWS Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) solution to use SAML authentication. We will use an existing identity provider (in this case Azure Active Directory). However, this can be replicated with any IDP that offers SAML authentication. By federating existing logins and accounts with CMF, the […]

Accelerate Your Enterprise On-Premises Migration to AWS Cloud

In this blog post, we will explore the top five guiding principles that you need to address before starting a large-scale migration from on-premises to the AWS cloud. As the AWS Professional Services team, the authors bring their combined experience in leading large migrations involving thousands of applications in datacenter exit projects across Healthcare & Life […]

Migrating and automating patching at scale with AWS Application Migration Service

Since AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) has been positioned as the recommended service for (rehost) migrations to AWS, we have seen an astounding speed of new feature releases, multiple enhancements, and continuous innovation aimed to address customer needs. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a highly automated move and improve (rehost) solution that […]

Creating a near-realtime dashboard on Amazon CloudWatch for a Migration usecase

Monitoring performance metrics of AWS resources is crucial for any business use case running in cloud. AWS Well-Architected Framework best practices recommend customers to setup observability and monitoring for their infrastructure on AWS. But, as AWS usage for customer increases, it gets harder to observe and visualize the data and metrics at scale and identify […]

How to import migrated Amazon EC2 instances into infrastructure code

Modeling Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables you to automate the lifecycle of AWS resources. However, the timing for IaC adoption can vary. AWS customers often move quickly in the beginning by performing block-level replication of their servers to the cloud. This is suitable when hundreds or thousands of servers need to exit their data center […]

Use AWS RAM and AWS MGN to Govern your Migration at scale in AWS

Introduction AWS customers consider Lift & Shift as the first increment of value delivery in their cloud adoption journey. Following this strategy customers will have benefits of speed, cost reduction, business agility, operational resiliency, and staff productivity. As part of the migration plan they will adopt a multi-account strategy to establish their AWS foundation at […]

Accelerate your migration with version 3 of AWS Cloud Migration Factory

Today, we’re launching the third version of the AWS Cloud Migration Factory (CMF), previously called CloudEndure Migration Factory. The AWS CMF is recommended for customers rehosting more than 100 servers to AWS, providing orchestration and automation capabilities to simplify the migration. This release provides further automation to support your medium and large scale AWS migrations. […]

Accelerate your Migration with AWS Application Migration Service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the sunsetting of CloudEndure Migration and AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS), both used primarily for accelerating lift-and-shift (re-host) migrations to AWS. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and accelerates your re-host migrations to AWS. You can quickly migrate your virtual, physical, or cloud-based servers to AWS with minimal […]