AWS Migration and Modernisation by Assembly

AWS migration and modernisation by Assembly

Assembly is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner. We migrate on the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) method, with the AWS Migration Services Competency through our partnership with Ingram Micro: Assess, Mobilise, then Migrate and modernise, each phase with a clear exit before the next begins.

Relation to AWS services This professional service migrates applications and databases to AWS and modernises them on managed AWS services. Migration waves use AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service and AWS Transform; the landing zone is built with AWS Control Tower; and workloads are modernised onto Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate and AWS Lambda.

Why migrate with Assembly

• Sequencing first: most migrations stall on sequencing, not technology. A dependency map and a costed business case turn the move into a decision leadership can fund.
• A path for every workload: rehost, replatform, refactor, retain or retire, so modernisation effort goes where it pays.
• Planned, tested, reversible: waves with rehearsed cutovers and a rollback plan.
• Modernise where it pays: lift and shift alone rarely delivers the savings in the business case; containers, serverless and managed databases change the economics.

How it runs

1. Assess (typically 3-4 weeks): discovery and dependency mapping, every workload scored on value, complexity and risk with its migration path, and a business case comparing run cost on AWS with today's estate, including licensing and effort.
2. Mobilise: a multi-account landing zone with networking, identity, guardrails and cost controls as code, CI/CD pipelines, and a pilot wave that proves the runbook.
3. Migrate and modernise (scoped per wave, typically 8+ weeks): the remaining waves with rehearsed cutovers, then modernisation onto managed services, with performance, resilience and cost checked against the business case after each wave.
4. Platform and database modernisation (scoped per workload, typically 4-8 weeks): self-managed databases moved to Amazon Aurora or Amazon RDS with replication, backups and failover, and services re-platformed onto Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate or AWS Lambda.

What you receive

• An application and dependency inventory, with a migration path for every workload
• A costed business case, wave plan and roadmap
• An AWS landing zone as code
• Migrated, modernised workloads, with cutover runbooks and rollback plans
• A post-migration cost and performance report

Proof

• Repurpose.io, a SaaS content automation platform, moved to containers on Amazon ECS with AWS Fargate and Amazon Aurora, with CI/CD and infrastructure as code: a 99.9% availability SLA, around 60% faster deployments and up to 70% lower compute cost.
• Distro.io modernised the platform behind its web applications on AWS, so new features reach customers about 70% faster.
• Browns English Language School moved onto a modernised, containerised foundation on AWS, with no more out-of-memory errors and no more static credentials.

Important

• The migration readiness assessment is funded by AWS for companies that qualify, subject to AWS approval. We check your fit with you before anything goes to AWS.
• Startups moving from another cloud or an app platform can also see our listing Startup Migration to AWS with AWS Startup Advisor by Assembly.
• You are responsible for any AWS infrastructure and service charges incurred in your AWS account, billed separately from your AWS Marketplace transaction.