Relocate to the cloud – Leveraging the Cloud for Digital Transformation
Relocate to the cloud
Relocate method allows to move vSphere-based applications to AWS without any application changes. With AWS VMware cloud, you can quickly relocate hundreds of applications virtualized on vSphere to the AWS Cloud in just days. You will maintain consistent operations with your VMware Cloud environments. You can adapt and integrate additional cloud services while existing your data centers. It leads to a decreased Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) as you move to operational costs from upfront capital investment. After moving to the cloud, you can optimize or re-architect to take advantage of the various AWS services. You can add advanced features using the VMware Cloud hybrid, data engineering, machine learning, containerization, and mobility capabilities backed by the power of AWS.
Retain in on-premise
Retain method means do nothing for now and leave your on-premise workload as-is. You may have portions of your IT workload that you are not ready to migrate or believe are best-kept on-premises—as more of your portfolio moves to the cloud, allocating data center expenses across fewer workloads may create a need to revisit the retained workloads.Working from a hybrid cloud standing can be achieved with VMWare cloud on AWS or AWS Outposts to host workload on-premises. AWS Outposts brings the AWS data center hardware to your premise with the same services and APIs. You can use the AWS control plains with the same management tools, support, and operating model for any on-premises facility. With AWS Outposts, you have a truly consistent hybrid cloud. You can develop once and deploy across AWS Outposts on-premises or AWS Cloud without recertifying your applications.
Retire
Finally, while analyzing your workload for cloud migration, you may realize that many servers are running unutilized, or you have decided to replace the existing application with cloud-native software.The retire method is to decommission unwanted portions of your IT workload. During the discovery phase of your migration, you may encounter applications no longer being used. By rationalizing your IT portfolio, you can identify no longer useful assets that can be turned off. It will strengthen your business case and direct your team’s attention toward maintaining the more widely used resources.AWS provides prescriptive guidance to plan and decide which migration strategy will fit your workload. You can refer AWS guide given here – https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/application-portfolio-assessment-guide/prioritization-and-migration-strategy.html to customize the flow for your enterprise on-premise workload while working on migration planning. Let’s look into some of the tools provided by AWS to help you with cloud migration.
