Goaltech Cloud Migration and Modernization on AWS

Cloud migration involves not just relocating servers but also offers a chance to redesign operations, security, resilience, and cost models. Organizations often proceed without a clear strategy, leading to risks and delays. Goaltech provides a comprehensive AWS migration journey, following the AWS Migration Acceleration Program, covering assessment, business case creation, design, migration execution, and operational readiness. Their approach utilizes AWS 7R frameworks, MAP stages, and best practices, ensuring compliance with standards like ISO 27001 and PCI DSS for a secure and efficient workload management from the start.

WHAT WE DELIVER Cloud readiness assessment, MAP alignment and migration strategy • Discovery of applications, infrastructure and data estate with dependency mapping • AWS 7R assessment and modernization suitability scoring for rehost, replatform, refactor, rearchitect or replace • Total cost of ownership and ROI modeling, including business case support for AWS MAP funding • Risk analysis for security, compliance, DR and business continuity • Regulatory alignment for ISO 27001, PCI DSS and local compliance frameworks • Stage one and stage two MAP deliverables, readiness and mobilize planning • Stakeholder alignment and change management support for cloud adoption

AWS landing zone, governance and security foundation • Multi account design using AWS Organizations and landing zone patterns • Identity and access strategy with IAM Identity Center and permission boundaries • Service Control Policies for centralized governance and guardrails • Baseline security including AWS Config conformance packs, Security Hub and GuardDuty • Application level security using AWS Secrets Manager, AWS WAF and best practice encryption • Network architecture using VPC, Transit Gateway, AWS Direct Connect and VPN failover • Centralized logging, audit trails and encryption with KMS • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

Migration factory and workload execution • Factory style migration waves with standardized runbooks, automation and playbooks • Server and VM migration using AWS Application Migration Service • Database migration using AWS DMS and AWS Schema Conversion Tool to RDS or Aurora • Bulk and structured data migration using S3, AWS DataSync and AWS Snowball where appropriate • Structured data refactoring and validation using AWS Glue and EMR • Hybrid connectivity using Direct Connect, Transit Gateway and VPN failover • Cutover rehearsals, performance validation, reliability testing and rollback plans

Modernization and cloud native transformation • Application profiling using AWS 7R modernization decision trees • Containerization with Amazon EKS or ECS • Serverless modernization using AWS Lambda, Step Functions and EventBridge • Refactoring to managed services such as Aurora, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS and API Gateway • Microservices patterns with service mesh where appropriate • Application CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and blue green or canary deployments • Performance tuning and autoscaling policies following Well Architected principles

Disaster recovery and high availability • RPO and RTO definition with business and technical owners • Multi AZ baseline patterns for production services • Cross region disaster recovery strategies using backup, replication and failover automation • Route 53, AWS Backup, S3 replication and Aurora global database for DR scenarios • Regular DR gamedays and resilience testing

Day two operations, FinOps and organizational enablement • Cloud operations model, SRE practices and on call readiness • Incident response runbooks, reliability playbooks and DR gamedays • FinOps including tagging standards, cost allocation, Savings Plans and RI strategies • Cost anomaly detection, workload efficiency scoring and cost dashboards • Configuration drift detection and compliance checks with AWS Config • Legacy decommissioning, DNS cutover, traffic switching and post migration validation • Training for engineering, operations and security teams on cloud operating models.

ENGAGEMENT MODEL

1. Assess and plan, MAP stage one We perform discovery, 7R assessment, TCO or ROI modeling, MAP alignment and a detailed migration and modernization roadmap.
2. Mobilize and design the foundation We implement the AWS landing zone, governance, security baselines, hybrid connectivity and Infrastructure as Code foundations.
3. Execute migration waves We run the migration factory, move workloads in waves, validate performance and resilience and align operations teams.
4. Modernize and optimize We refactor selected workloads into containers, serverless and managed databases, improve performance and reduce operational overhead.
5. Operate, govern and evolve We help you run AWS at scale with FinOps, DR readiness, SRE practices, continuous optimization and ongoing modernization sprints.