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Cloud migration is the process of moving a company’s digital assets, services, databases, IT resources, and applications either partially, or wholly, into the cloud. Cloud migration is also about moving from one cloud to another.

We know that cloud migration is critical for achieving real-time and updated performance and efficiency. As such, the process requires careful analysis, planning and execution to ensure the cloud solution's compatibility with your business requirements.

When considering your strategy for migrating to the cloud, it’s important to understand that it’s not just about getting there, it’s also about what you do when you get there. For instance, what are your options for rebuilding applications so they can perform optimally in cloud? The process of cloud migration is making companies ask the question: what is application modernization?

Migrate with AWS—leveraging our unmatched experience and proven solutions to drive success at every step of your journey. From lifting and shifting workloads to moving entire data centers, AWS provides the organizational, operational, and technical capabilities you need for a successful migration. And with the deepest set of migration and modernization services—including many that are purpose-built for specific industries—you can start realizing the business value of AWS quickly and comprehensively.

Why migrate to the AWS Cloud?

Organizations who migrated to AWS from on-premises

20%

infrastructure cost savings*

66%

increase in administrator productivity*

43%

lower time to market for new features*

45%

fewer security-related incidents*

* “The Business Value of Migration to Amazon Web Services,” The Hackett Group, January 2022

What are the benefits of cloud migration?

For companies that undertake the process of cloud migration, the cloud can have a massive impact.

This includes a reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO), faster time to delivery, and enhanced opportunities for innovation. With access to the cloud comes agility and flexibility, both of which are imperative to meet changing consumer and market demands.

In recent months, companies have been migrating their services and data to the cloud as they adapt to become elastic digital workplaces to deal with an increase in online demand and remote working. Others are left wondering, "Why did we wait?"

This are the benefits of migrating to the cloud include:

Increased agility and flexibility
Ability to innovate faster
Easing of increasing resource demands
Better managing of increased customer expectations
Reduction in costs
Deliver immediate business results

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Business Challenge

Choosing the right cloud solution and managing your cloud migration is a complex undertaking. MSI will partner with you to deliver the expertise you need, so you can avoid common pitfalls and accelerate your return on investment.

Our certified cloud migration consultants start by conducting a holistic assessment of your IT environment and business goals. We then create a customized cloud migration plan designed to support those goals. We’ll handle migration of your applications and workloads, so you can minimize your business risk, disruption and downtime. After a successful migration, our experts can continue to work with you through our ongoing management and optimization services.

Use Case

Assessment and Strategy

Through our cloud migration consultant-led workshops, we’ll work with you to identify which applications should be migrated to the cloud, and develop a high-level plan.
Build confidence in a manageable and cost-effective cloud migration by starting with a single, meaningful workload.
Our experts will handle your application migration and remediation.
We’ll work with you to validate your applications, data and network accessibility, and perform cut-over and go-live procedures.

Assessment and Strategy

Catalogue your existing applications, infrastructure and network architecture to help prioritize workloads and applications.
Determine which cloud platform(s) fit your overall transformation objectives.
Design a high-level target infrastructure and cloud platform architecture that accommodates your security and risk requirements.
Assess your existing workloads and predict future cloud consumption to estimate your costs.
Explore your detailed deployment strategy for all applications, as well as future recommendations.

Case Study: Cloud Optimization

Business Challenge

With cloud optimization, customer can improve cloud performance and reduce costs. Help to enhance customer experiences, drive differentiation and decrease time to market. Build in cloud optimization tooling, we give the customer the guidance on reducing cloud spend and deliver the flexibility to pay only for the services needed.

Assess the current environment.
Provide best-practice recommendations on cloud optimization.
Design and implement cloud solution, and
Provide continuous optimization.

Use Case

Better Application Performance

Improve your application’s performance while generating more targeted user experiences and reducing operational costs. As demand fluctuates, continuous observation and refinement of cloud resources is needed to maintain optimum performance.

Improve usage and spend insights

Gain the agility, flexibility and innovation enablement of the cloud while accelerating ROI, so you can realize reduced costs quickly. But understanding where costs are being incurred requires ongoing monitoring and analysis.

Forecast demand spend

Get a more accurate picture of your demand peaks and troughs to predict costs. Develop insights to gain superior cloud performance and cost management.

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