Preparing Your Organization for AWS Cloud Migration

AWS offers a wealth of insights developed from their experience of having now migrated hundreds of enterprise customers to their Cloud.

The Migration Hub provides a central location to collect server and application inventory data for the assessment, planning, and tracking of migrations to AWS.

Resources include the Cloud Adoption Framework, which provides best practice guidance that helps you improve your cloud readiness, and capabilities to manage your cloud transformation journey.

MAP is the AWS Migration Acceleration Program for Cloud Migration tools and techniques, explored through a number of presentations:

• Building the right foundation for your migration – Foundational capabilities are critical and must be established to set the stage for a successful migration to the AWS Cloud. This session dives deep into functional areas such as security, operations, governance, and resiliency, and it covers skills, processes, and tools that you should consider as you prepare to migrate.
• De-risking migration and modernization initiatives – Cloud migrations can be multi-year projects, and with the right strategies, they can be made simpler and faster. This session reviews how to identify technical and functional risks of migration. Additionally, you learn best practices for modernization frameworks, including replatforming, canary deployments, A/B tests, feature flags, config failover, empowered teams, and observability, to help achieve business outcomes in a predictable manner.
• Learn how to mobilize for accelerated cloud migration – Migrating hundreds or thousands of workloads requires coordination and implementation across multiple disciplines and teams. AWS approaches large-scale migrations in three phases: assess, mobilize, and migrate. The mobilize phase sets the foundation for accelerated migration at scale during the final phase. Learn how to lead your team through the mobilize phase to accelerate cloud adoption, create a migration plan, and migrate your first set of applications to the AWS Cloud in weeks.
• Migrate and modernize to achieve your business goals – In this session learn how to lead your team through the mobilize phase to accelerate cloud adoption, create a migration plan, and migrate their first set of applications to the AWS Cloud in weeks. Understand how to plan and design a migration from establishing a secure Platform to setting up a migration factory, and learn how to build operational readiness on your team as you prepare for your migrations.