CGI Australia: VMware Exit to AWS – Economics-Led Cloud Migration

Broadcom’s licensing restructure is hitting enterprise run-rates now, with costs rising 2–5× under the new model. Boards are making cost decisions today — and organisations that delay lose optionality while exposure compounds. CGI’s VMware Exit to AWS programme is designed for this moment: an economics-first approach that delivers a positive 5-year TCO with a defined earn-back period, not a leap of faith.

The programme runs in six phases — OLA, Assess, Mobilise, Migrate, Hypercare, and Run — each scoped and stage-gated so you commit only when the numbers work. OLA is an AWS-funded infrastructure and licensing assessment that quantifies the exit opportunity. Assess converts that into a validated migration plan with target-state architecture, wave sequencing, and a costed business case. CGI’s proprietary DeepDive engine automates discovery and workload scoring, while DBAssure validates database migrations (Sybase and Oracle to Aurora PostgreSQL) at scale. Every placement decision — rehost, partial refactor, containerise, or go serverless — is scored against total cost of ownership.

CGI structures workloads and waves to maximise AWS OLA and MAP funding from day one, materially reducing programme cost. Proof points include a Tier-1 Australian Bank migration (104 applications, $1.72M MAP funding secured, $24.6M projected annual savings), the UK NHS e-Referral Service (9TB migrated, 95% storage cost reduction, £50.5M annual savings), and UK DVSA (legacy datacentre exit, zero service interruption). FinOps governance is embedded into every phase so savings persist beyond cutover into steady-state operations.