Migrate with AWS

The most complete solutions to efficiently migrate to AWS and see business results faster

With over a million active customers and a global cloud presence, AWS has experience in helping organizations of all sizes migrate workloads to the cloud.

Enterprises such as GE, the Coca-Cola Company, BP, Enel, Samsung, NewsCorp, and Twenty-First Century Fox have successfully migrated their on-premises workloads to AWS. They benefited from IT cost savings, improvements in productivity, business agility, and operational resilience.

You can migrate any workload – applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers – and even entire data centers from an on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other public cloud to AWS. Every step along the way, you can leverage AWS’s years of experience to build your organizational, operational, and technical capabilities, so that you can gain business benefits faster.

Fundamentals of Cloud Migration Success (1:00)

Accelerate your migration and modernization plans

This eBook provides prescriptive guidance for every step of your cloud migration and modernization journey.

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Why migrate to the AWS Cloud?

Organizations who migrated to AWS from on-premises saw:

31%

average infrastructure cost savings*

62%

more efficient IT infrastructure management*

more features delivered per year*

69%

reduction in unplanned downtime**

43%

fewer security incidents per year**

*IDC #US43535718 - Fostering Business and Organizational Transformation to Generate Business Value with Amazon Web Services; February 2018

**Nucleus Research - Guidebook Understanding the Value of Migrating from On-premises to AWS for Application Security and Performance; June 2020

Migrate to AWS with confidence

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Most migration experience

Together with our partner ecosystem, AWS has the most experience helping organizations successfully migrate all types of workloads to AWS, including large-scale migrations of tens of thousands of servers to the cloud.

Infographic: Accelerate your move to the cloud by migrating with AWS

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Most comprehensive and mature migration solutions

Based on our years of migration experience, we developed the methodology, best practices, tools, and services to help simplify and accelerate migrations.

Infographic: Best practices for a successful migration

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Faster time to business results

With automation and data-driven guidance, AWS simplifies each step of the migration process, reducing the effort and complexity involved. This helps accelerate your migrations by reducing the time to realize the value of your cloud migration.

Infographic: Key business value metrics of migrating with AWS

Migrate your application workloads

Windows

With over a decade of experience, superior reliability, and higher performance, AWS offers the best cloud for Windows-based applications, today and in the future. Customers get 442% projected 5-year ROI running Windows on AWS.

eBook: Running Windows on AWS

Assessment: Windows optimization and licensing assessment

SAP

AWS and SAP have been jointly innovating to help you run your SAP landscapes on the cloud since 2011. AWS offers the broadest selection of SAP-certified, cloud-native instance types to give you the flexibility to support your unique and changing needs.

eBook: Migrating SAP to the cloud

Webpage: Get started with SAP on AWS

VMWare

AWS is VMware's preferred public cloud partner for all vSphere-based workloads. With over four years of joint engineering, VMware and AWS provide you with enhanced VMware functionalities integrated in the solution and a single point of contact for support and service integration.

eBook: VMware modernization

Webinar: How to exit your data center and modernize VMware workloads

Databases

AWS offers a range of purpose-built database and analytics services to help you meet your specific needs. Database Freedom is a unique program designed to assist you in migrating to AWS database and analytics services by providing technical advice, migration support, and financial assistance.

eBook: An introduction to cloud databases

Webpage: Database Freedom

Mainframe

Migrate and modernize your mainframe infrastructure and applications with AWS. Leverage our proven methodologies, automated tools, and certified partners to rehost, refactor, or replatform mainframe infrastructure and applications to drive innovation, agility, and cost savings. Confidently move your critical mainframe ecosystem to a secure and scalable cloud environment with global reach.

Webpage: AWS Migration Acceleration Program for Mainframe

AWS Migration Solutions

Our migration solutions address the people, process, technology, and financial considerations throughout the migration journey to ensure your project achieves the desired business outcomes.

Migration Methodology

Migrating hundreds or thousands of workloads to the cloud requires a phased approach that includes assessment, readiness and planning, migrations, and operations, with each phase building on the previous one. AWS Prescriptive Guidance provides the methods and best practices for all steps of the migration journey.

Migration Tools & Services

Our comprehensive portfolio of AWS migration tools and our mature third-party migration tooling ecosystem provide automation and intelligent recommendations based on AWS machine learning to simplify and accelerate each step of the migration process.

AWS Migration Acceleration Program

The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is designed to help organizations committed to a large-scale migration reach their business goals faster by combining all the components of our migration solution with investments to assist with the costs of migration.

AWS Migration Competency Partners

AWS Migration Competency Partners help you complete your migration faster. Global systems integrators and regional partners have successfully demonstrated completion of multiple large-scale migrations to AWS to receive the Migration Competency Partner designation.

AWS Managed Services

AWS Managed Services (AMS) provides an enterprise-ready operating environment to migrate production workloads in days versus months. To meet security and compliance requirements, AMS makes only necessary modifications to your applications. Post migration, AMS takes responsibility for operating your cloud environment.

AWS Professional Services

AWS Professional Services helps you automate and accelerate the migration of large numbers of workloads to the AWS Cloud. We bring our methodologies, tools, and experts to work together with your team and the AWS Partner Network (APN) to help you complete your migration journey faster and more reliably.

AWS Marketplace

AWS Marketplace simplifies and accelerates your migrations with an extensive, curated software catalog, easier transactions and procurement processes, improved governance and control, optimized IT costs, and quick access to professional expertise, all in one place.

AWS Training and Certification

AWS Training and Certification can design a training strategy to help your organization build the right cloud skills. With a comprehensively trained staff, your organization can achieve up to 80% faster cloud adoption.