Microsoft Licensing and AWS Migration Assessment

Perficient's Microsoft Licensing and AWS Migration Assessment helps enterprises running Windows Server and SQL Server workloads cut through the complexity of Microsoft licensing and build a cost-optimized migration strategy for AWS. Most enterprise environments are over-provisioned, locked into opaque Enterprise Agreement structures, and uncertain about which licenses are eligible for Bring Your Own License (BYOL) portability on AWS. Using automated discovery and detailed analysis of your full licensing inventory, Perficient identifies BYOL eligibility, end-of-support risks, right-sizing opportunities, and SQL Server core consolidation paths that drive material reductions in Software Assurance obligations and total cost of ownership.

The engagement models up to three migration scenarios, comparing License Included versus BYOL approaches, shared Amazon EC2 tenancy versus AWS Dedicated Hosts, and one-year versus three-year Reserved Instance commitments, so finance and procurement teams can select the path that best aligns with your Enterprise Agreement renewal timeline. The final deliverable is a customer-branded assessment report that includes an executive summary with projected savings, specific licensing recommendations for every license group, an Amazon EC2 deployment map, a SQL Server core-reduction waterfall, an end-of-support inventory with AWS Extended Security Update (ESU) eligibility, and a next-steps migration roadmap. The assessment meets AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA) deliverable verification standards, qualifying clients for AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) funding worth 15% to 25% of projected annual AWS spend. AWS services and programs covered include Amazon EC2, AWS Dedicated Hosts, AWS License Manager, AWS Reserved Instances, Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, AWS Cost Explorer, and AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).

As an AWS Premier Partner with a Migration and Modernization Competency and more than 15 years of AWS delivery experience, Perficient brings both Microsoft licensing expertise and cloud architecture depth to translate assessment findings into a migration strategy that CFOs, procurement teams, and infrastructure teams can execute with confidence. Perficient has completed more than 100 AWS migration engagements across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, and life sciences, with clients typically achieving 36% to 48% total cost of ownership reductions. Average savings benchmarks include 77% on Windows Server licensing costs and 45% on SQL Server licensing costs.