AWS Migration Solutions | Cloud Scale Expertise

Why Migrate to AWS?

Migration is more than a move; it’s a transformation. It enables you to leverage AWS’s innovative and expansive tech suite, driving operational and cost efficiency, scalability, and the opportunity to create a competitive edge.

As an AWS Migration Competency Partner, we’ve helped 100’s of businesses navigate the complexities, and ensure an AWS migration delivers business value. Here’s how:

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We specialise in navigating the complexities of AWS migration. As an AWS Migration Competency Partner, we leverage AWS's extensive suite of services and our deep expertise to turn these challenges into opportunities, ensuring every migration delivers strategic business value.

Migration is Our Mission

Every business should be able to go on a cloud migration. As an Advanced AWS Partner, we're not just technical migration experts; we're your customer's strategic partner committed to harnessing the transformative power of the largest cloud provider in the world for them and for you.

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The Cloud Scale Advantage

Choosing Cloud Scale means you're choosing a partner dedicated to your success:

Business case

From day one, we'll help you build a compelling, data driven business case that clearly demonstrated the ROI of migrating AWS for your customers.

Migration acceleration program

We’ll take them on a tried and tested three phased process – the AWS Migration Acceleration Programme (MAP) – providing them with a clear structure for their migration.

AWS Expertise

Our expertise in the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) helps to secure funding for your customers, making their migration journey cost-effective.

Modernisation services

We offer modernisation services post-migration to enhance cloud infrastructure performance, security, and scalability for years to come.

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Securing Funding for Migration

You shouldn’t need to break the bank (or rob one) to access the cloud. For this reason, a cornerstone of our strategy has always been assisting our partners in securing AWS funding, removing one of the biggest barriers to cloud accessibility.

Identifying and Navigating Funding Programmes

We’ll guide them and you through the application process for AWS funding, ensuring they receive the financial support needed for an efficient migration, so they always feel in control of their budget and costs

Financial Planning and Cost Optimisation

Beyond initial funding, we offer dedicated financial planning and cost optimisation services. Engaging us in these areas will ensure your customer's AWS investment continues to deliver value.

A Three-Phase Migration Process

The AWS Migration Acceleration Programme (MAP) breaks down migration into three phases: Assess, Mobilise, and Migrate/Modernise. This framework provides a clear structure for a migration, at the start of which we almost always add automated discovery via the “Optimisation and Licensing Assessment” (OLA).

The OLA gives us a quick view across the servers in an existing setup. We use a variety of tools for this, but usually Cloudamize is our discovery tool of choice.

Cloudamize supplies key info, such as the operating system, installed applications, CPU and memory sizes, and amount of storage. It also gives us actual performance stats, which it gathers over a period of a couple of weeks. That allows it to provide “right sized” estimates, giving a more accurate view of the target AWS environment.

Assess

We begin the MAP Assess phase by zooming out to get a view of the different applications across the estate. At Cloud Scale, we often call these “workloads”, to avoid confusion with processes that run on individual servers. Take the example of a legacy Microsoft Exchange estate; there might have several Exchange servers working together. To us, that would comprise the Exchange workload.

AWS Migration Portfolio Analysis

To identify these workloads, we use tools such as AWS Migration Portfolio Analysis to collate the servers into groups. There's definitely a human element — we like to identify owners for each app and check in with them to get a sense for feasibility — but there's a lot we can do with automated discovery. Cloudamize shows us how servers are communicating and which ports they're using. We can then visually group these in the start of an application grouping.

The 7 Rs

With the applications grouped, we can then work with your customer to identify a high-level strategy for each workload (the "7 Rs"). We refer to the lift-and-shift approach as "Rehost" but we'll often look at whether we can re-platform (for example, utilising managed database services rather than self-hosted) or re-factor (meaning that we'll modernise the workload to use more cloud-native technology, such as containerisation or serverless technologies).

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Mobilise

In the Mobilise phase, we produce high- and low-level designs for each workload, which go on to shape a project plan showing how we'll migrate every workload into AWS. This is also where we put together our "landing zone" on AWS, including figuring out the organisational structure of AWS accounts.

We work with your customer to identify security and compliance requirements and put a framework in place (including guardrails) using AWS Control Tower to centralise management, monitoring and governance. By the end, we have a clear timeline, estimates of hours, and a detailed plan, which we execute to move the workloads.

Migrate

Executing the migration, we utilise AWS tools and programs for efficiency. This phase includes modernisation efforts to align a customer's infrastructure with best practices and emerging technologies. Is this the beginning or the end of their cloud journey?

Migration in Motion

By this point, we've already set up a scalable, enterprise-ready AWS environment and validated our plans with some well-chosen pilots. Executing them, we’ll work in concert with your customer to migrate in predetermined waves. Our project management tooling gives a clear view of where we are in the migration and highlights any risks or delays so that they can be expedited where necessary.

Lift and Shift

If it's been a lift-and-shift migration, then that's the beginning of the journey. Your customer is now in AWS, and we're at the first step of continuous improvement (using our FinOps service to optimise for cost and security), as well as then looking at ways to modernise, scale and become more cloud-native. This leads to a virtuous circle; the idea is that we drive down costs, freeing up budget for more IT projects in the future.

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Where Are Your Customers on Their Cloud Journey?

If they’ve just completed a lift-and shift migration, then that’s the beginning of their journey. They’re now “in AWS” and we’re at the first step of continuous improvement.

We don't just migrate your customers to AWS; we help their business to harness the full potential of the platform for long-term success. From initial assessment to post-migration optimisation, together, we're their strategic partners in leveraging AWS for business growth:

Ongoing Cost Savings

with our FinOps service – unlocking budget for future tech advancements. We help your customers save up to 40% on their cloud spend.

Modernise and Scale

we’ll identify ways to modernise, scale and support them to become more cloud native.

Free Up Time

reclaim valuable time with our comprehensive Managed Services, handling the day-to-day.

Stay Ahead

we enable your customers to keep their competitive edge with our advanced AI and ML services, driving innovation.

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Contact Cloud Scale

With Cloud Scale, your customers get more than a migration; they gain a pathway to ongoing improvement and strategic cloud mastery.

Book a call with our sales team to discuss how we can help your customers together.

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