On-Premises to AWS Migration by Firemind

Overview: A data centre exit usually has a date on it: a lease, a hardware refresh or a support contract. What puts the date at risk is rarely the servers. It is the dependencies nobody wrote down, the applications nobody owns, and the cutover weekends that overrun. Built on Firemind's IT Operations Engine, this service runs the migration as governed code in your AWS account, and the same Engine runs each workload once it lands.

Four stages, contracted together or separately

• Assess. Detailed discovery built on your inventory, with workshops and, where you agree, a discovery collector run inside your network to confirm dependencies and utilisation. Aligned to the Assess phase of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP): a readiness assessment based on the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, a migration path for every workload, a business case with an AWS Pricing Calculator estimate, and a wave plan.
• Mobilize. Landing zone readiness, detailed discovery and planning for the first waves, a pilot migration, and MAP tagging set up so migrated workloads are tracked from day one.
• Migrate. Servers rehosted to Amazon EC2 with AWS Application Migration Service, or replatformed to managed services where the case is clear, databases moved to Amazon RDS or Amazon Aurora with AWS Database Migration Service, and file and object data moved with AWS DataSync.
• Operate. The Engine runs the migrated workloads: monitoring, incident remediation, patching and decay management such as end-of-life runtimes, with high-risk changes held for a named approver. Each wave lands in operations the day it passes acceptance.

Validated and governed

Every wave starts with acceptance tests agreed with your team: functional checks, performance baselines and data comparisons wherever data moves. They run before and after cutover, and every wave has a tested rollback. The Engine plans each change, raises it as code and runs it under your change rules. Low-risk, reversible steps run automatically. Cutovers and other high-risk changes wait for a named approver. Every action is recorded in an immutable audit trail and in your own AWS CloudTrail.

What is in scope

• Dependency mapping and move groups, so applications that talk to each other move together
• Hybrid connectivity during the migration, with AWS Direct Connect or AWS Site-to-Site VPN
• Operating system and runtime upgrades where end-of-life systems should not move as they are
• Wave planning against your exit date, with a cutover runbook for every wave
• Data movement, validated by comparison before cutover

What stays out of scope

Physical decommissioning, hardware disposal and data centre contracts stay with you. Mainframe and midrange systems are listed and assessed, and their migration is scoped separately with you.

AWS programmes: Firemind holds the AWS Migration and Modernization Competency. Eligible migrations may qualify for MAP funding, and Firemind prepares the MAP documentation with your AWS account team. Eligibility and funding are confirmed by AWS.

How it starts: After the private offer is accepted, you grant read-only access to your inventory and, where agreed, a discovery collector in your network and deploy an IAM role in your AWS account using AWS CloudFormation. A full description of the role and its policy statements is provided before deployment. The Engine uses temporary credentials, and every action is recorded in your own AWS CloudTrail. Scope, acceptance tests and named approvers are agreed at the start of each stage.

Deployment: Pilot scopes run from Firemind's AWS environment. In production the Engine runs inside your own AWS accounts. Running the Engine, and the migrated workloads, may incur AWS infrastructure charges, for example Amazon Bedrock, compute and storage. These are billed separately from this AWS Marketplace transaction and are your responsibility.

Pricing: Delivered through an AWS Marketplace private offer, scoped to your estate. The four stages can be contracted together or separately. Contact hello@firemind.com  to scope.

About Firemind: AWS Premier Tier Services Partner with the AWS Migration and Modernization Competency. 200+ clients since 2018, ISO 27001 certified, in partnership with AWS, NVIDIA and Anthropic. Core markets: UK and Ireland, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands.