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    Choosing your Partner for AWS Cloud Migration & Managed Services
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    Choosing your Partner for AWS Cloud Migration & Managed Services

    By Özgür Özbostanci27th October 2021November 16th, 2021No Comments
     

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    Do you need to keep your business up and running round the clock? Just deploy on the cloud, right? Wrong! It’s a common misconception that the cloud makes all applications and infrastructures highly available and redundant by default. The cloud is not a remedy if you ignore the best practices of migrating infrastructure, applications, and managed services.

    The Right Way to Migrate to the AWS Cloud


    The AWS cloud is not a silver bullet. Whatever your priorities – be it reducing costs, improving resource utilization, or benefitting from new infrastructure capabilities – you need to address the gaps at both the application and infrastructure levels. How do you align your AWS Cloud migration strategy to support your business objectives?

    1

    Phase 1: Business Planning and Preparing for Migration

    Gain a clear understanding of your current status, the architecture of your applications, the hurdles you are facing, and align them with your business goals. Create a business case for your AWS Cloud migration by defining your milestones. Are you migrating to decrease costs, increase scalability, improve reliability? Based on those goals, decide which applications you need to migrate to the cloud.
    2

    Phase 2: Discovery and Planning

    Now that you have an idea of your objectives examine your IT debt and weigh the AWS cloud migration strategy you'll use for each application. Learn about AWS's tools to assist with migration - AWS Migration Evaluator, Server Migration Service (SMS), Database Migration Service (DMS), and Amazon DirectConnect - relevant for your use case.
    3

    Phase 3: Designing, Migrating, and Validating Applications

    Create a comprehensive AWS cloud migration plan for each of your applications. Begin with a few apps as a Proof of Concept and understand how migration strategies and tools play out in your environment. Get buy-in from stakeholders in your organization and move forward with the complete migration plan.
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    Phase 4: Operate, Manage and Improve

    As applications move to the AWS cloud, you can begin running them on AWS and turn off the old on-premise infrastructure (unless you opt for a hybrid model). Build on your expertise from applications already running in the cloud for further applications that you'll need to migrate.

    Which is the AWS Migration Strategy that Fits your Need?


    How much cloud capacity do you need, and what is the current utilization? How much data do you plan to migrate, and how often does it change? How much downtime can your business afford? We can help you figure out these fundamentals and help you decide which migration strategy is best suited for your applications so that you can avoid costs and delays.

    • Rehost (lift and shift) large legacy migrations with a shortage of cloud expertise.
    • Re-platform (lift, tinker, and shift) conservative migrations, but wanting more benefits from the cloud.
    • Repurchase (drop and shop) projects wanting to change the existing license model and move to an entirely new application.
    • Re-architect projects that need to scale and need improved performance and enhanced features
    • Retire – Freeing up resources for applications that are valuable to the business
    • Retain applications that aren’t fit or ready for migration.

    Of course, we could build your applications straightaway on the AWS cloud and provide managed services for your platform. But if you’re already deployed on-prem, and understand the need to migrate and evolve your platform, then you need the right partner to help you navigate your cloud migration journey. Re-platforming by migrating applications nearly as-is but replacing certain parts to take advantage of AWS services is a good start to your AWS Cloud migration. But for true future-readiness, you might need to completely overhaul your applications and re-architect them for a cloud-native environment.

    Managed Services for your AWS Cloud


    While the AWS Cloud gives you a highly reliable, scalable, and low-cost infrastructure, you need to understand that managing your cloud environment is still on you. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, we often get questions on how AWS cloud-managed services ensure continuity of service and what outcomes this can achieve.

    AWS Cloud Managed Services as a Shared Responsibility

    Ensuring high availability, resilience, scalability, performance efficiency, and remaining cost-effective is a shared responsibility between customers, experts like us, and AWS. As an AWS Well-Architected Partner, we can take over responsibility and ownership, with a clear and established structure on the what, where, and how of deploying your business-critical workloads. The key is to design, deploy, and test mission-critical applications and infrastructure, following the 5 pillars of the AWS well-architected framework – operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization.

    Best Practices for AWS Cloud Managed Services

    While there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, some of the best practices we follow include avoiding single points of failure, reducing interconnectedness within the global AWS infrastructure, replicating data and services across AWS regions, etc. Wherever it makes sense to do so, we use a serverless approach using services like AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, S3. Our approach is geared towards organizational transformation and optimizing cost as well. We also use AWS’s security services to implement fundamental security postures. 

    Fundamental Security Postures

    Choosing the Right Partner for AWS Cloud Migration and Managed Services Security Postures

    Prevention


    User identities and permissions, infrastructure protection, and data protection measures.

    Choosing the Right Partner for AWS Cloud Migration and Managed Services Security Postures

    Detection


    Logging and monitoring services to provide visibility and a scalable platform for event management, testing, and auditing.

    Choosing the Right Partner for AWS Cloud Migration and Managed Services Security Postures

    Response


    Automated incident response and recovery so that security teams can focus on analyzing the root cause.

    Choosing the Right Partner for AWS Cloud Migration and Managed Services Security Postures

    Remediation


    Event-driven automation to quickly secure your AWS environment in near real-time.

    The Right Partner Can Make all the Difference


    The right AWS partner will help you define your short and long-term goals. They can employ the best migration strategy to help you achieve agility, better time-to-market, technology adoption, and cost savings. Managed services for your AWS cloud and established cloud performance KPIs can r/evolutionize the way you operate your business.

    At Mindcurv, we rely on standardized approaches and processes, holistic monitoring systems, collaborative functioning, MACH technologies, and open communication to give our customers the best AWS Cloud experience. Systems are designed to focus on data privacy and protection, identity & access management, network & application security, threat detection, continuous monitoring, and compliance. Our AWS cloud managed services focus on incident management – continuous monitoring through metrics and alarms, high-severity tickets, customer reports – all contributing to ensuring uninterrupted service 24x7x365.

    Tags AWS Migration, Business critical workloads, Managed Services, Organizational Improvement

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