Cloud Wizard - AWS Application Modernization Consulting

Cloud Wizard Consulting is an AWS Select Tier Consulting Partner and AWS Advanced Training Partner with a team of Authorized Instructors who hold all AWS certifications. We have trained more than 5,000 professionals and bring that depth of AWS expertise directly into every modernization engagement. Our proven approach has helped clients reduce infrastructure costs by up to 40%.

Engagements typically run 2-4 weeks depending on portfolio size and complexity. We begin with a comprehensive discovery phase - assessing your existing applications, infrastructure, architecture, business requirements, and technical dependencies. Using the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), AWS Well-Architected Framework, and modernization best practices, we identify the most appropriate strategy for each workload.

Our consultants design modern application architectures leveraging AWS managed services, containers, serverless computing, microservices, and DevOps practices. The result is a practical, prioritized roadmap that reduces technical debt while improving agility, reliability, and cost efficiency.

A mid-size enterprise running a monolithic Java application on-premises engaged Cloud Wizard to assess modernization options. Through our discovery workshops and architecture analysis, we identified opportunities to decompose the application into containerized microservices on Amazon ECS, implement CI/CD pipelines, and leverage serverless components for event-driven workloads - resulting in a 40% reduction in infrastructure costs and significantly faster release cycles.

• Application portfolio assessment and dependency analysis
• Legacy application modernization evaluation
• AWS modernization strategy and roadmap (Rehost, Replatform, Refactor, or Rearchitect)
• Cloud-native architecture recommendations with diagrams
• Containerization and serverless recommendations
• Security and compliance best practices
• CI/CD and DevOps recommendations
• Prioritized implementation roadmap

Deliverables are provided as an executive slide deck, a detailed written report with architecture diagrams, and a prioritized implementation backlog. Interim findings are shared at milestone checkpoints during the engagement.

• Reduce infrastructure and maintenance costs - clients have achieved up to 40% savings
• Improve application scalability and availability using AWS managed services
• Accelerate software delivery through modern CI/CD and DevOps practices
• Increase operational efficiency through automation
• Enhance application security posture and resilience
• Create a clear, phased roadmap for modernization execution

1. Discovery (Week 1): Stakeholder interviews, application inventory, dependency mapping
2. Assessment (Weeks 1-2): Architecture reviews, modernization strategy selection per workload
3. Design (Weeks 2-3): Cloud-native architecture recommendations, technology selection
4. Roadmap Delivery (Weeks 3-4): Prioritized implementation plan, executive presentation

This engagement delivers assessment, strategy, and roadmap artifacts. It does not include hands-on migration execution, production deployments, application code development, or ongoing managed services. Implementation services can be scoped as a follow-on engagement.

• Organizations running monolithic Java or .NET applications on-premises seeking cloud-native transformation
• Mid-market and enterprise teams modernizing 5-50 applications on AWS
• Companies adopting microservices, containers, or serverless architectures
• Development teams looking to accelerate release cycles and reduce operational overhead

Engagements are scoped on a fixed-fee basis during the initial discovery conversation. Pricing reflects portfolio size, application complexity, and desired depth of analysis.

To get started, schedule a complimentary modernization consultation through AWS Marketplace.