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Cloud migration for software and technology companies
Accelerate your journey to the cloud with proven migration strategies and comprehensive support.
From on-premises to the cloud
Moving to the cloud helps your business find cost savings and provide better customer experiences. AWS empowers software and technology companies like yours to customize their modernization roadmap using the broadest portfolio of cloud services and technologies on the market.
Begin your journey to a better software business
Pave the way for a successful modernization with these benefits.
Scale with the global leader
The most extensive, secure, and reliable cloud footprint in the world to support the performance, compliance, and expansion needs of software companies.
Access top-tier service and support
Take advantage of hundreds of featured services that support more efficient SaaS operations and a suite of automated tools that streamline the development lifecycle.
Secure your investment
Holistic, automated security capabilities that provide robust protection across multiple layers and help address security and compliance requirements.
Optimize cost
Flexible pricing models, access to AWS Partner Network solutions, and cost visibility tools that help software companies control costs and optimize utilization.
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Cloud migration FAQs for software companies
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally. Millions of customers, including the fastest-growing software companies, startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies are using AWS to lower costs, become more agile, and innovate faster.
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Amazon Web Services offers comprehensive cloud computing services such as compute, storage, databases, analytics, and more. To get started with your SaaS journey on AWS read through best practices for SaaS on AWS or get hands on experience with the AWS Serverless SaaS workshop . Furthermore, AWS has universal documentation , tools for developers, a great community , and substantial courses that can help you get started building on AWS.
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By moving to the cloud, companies achieve value across the five pillars of the AWS Cloud Value Framework : cost savings, operational resilience, staff productivity, sustainability, and business agility. By reducing and eliminating tasks related to infrastructure administration, internal IT teams can focus on more strategic initiatives and improve productivity by spending more time on creating new features. By deploying to the cloud, software companies save costs associated with security events and unplanned downtime. Organizations are able to deliver services to end users faster by accelerating deployment and helping reduce application errors.
Your account team will help guide you through managing your costs, spotting ways to save, and measuring your cloud migration ROI. Try out our free cost evaluation tool to help you build a business case and projecting future savings.
This whitepaper shows the customers that migrate to AWS can experience reduced costs of operations, increased IT staff productivity, and reductions in downtime.
- Assess: Assess the organization’s readiness to move to the cloud. Define the desired business outcomes and develop the business plan for migration.
- Mobilize: Address gaps uncovered in the mobilize phase and build a landing zone for the applications to move into. Make sure application teams have the appropriate skills and knowledge to operate in AWS.
- Migrate: Move the applications into AWS with either native migration tooling or partner offerings.
AWS has defined a three-step framework for migrating to the cloud:
If you have an AWS account team, they will be able to provide guidance and expert assistance with your migration. On top of this, AWS provides documentation to help you understand the options and tools available to you for a successful migration. We recommend starting with our How To Migrate page . You can also engage with AWS migration partners.
- For server migration, use the AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) . This performs block level replication of all data and server configurations into AWS.
- For data migration, use the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) . This performs one time migration and ongoing change replication from your on premise database into AWS, resulting in minimal downtime to your end customers. For more information, see the user guide .
- For storage migration, there are a family of tools available such as AWS DataSync , the AWS Transfer Family , and the AWS Snow Family .
There are a number of AWS solutions that can help with migrating workloads and data into the cloud.
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