Cloud Migration and Innovation

Introduction to Migration

Cloud migration is the process of moving your organization's digital assets, IT resources, applications, and databases from on-premises infrastructure to the AWS Cloud. This involves strategic planning, implementation, and ongoing management. Large migrations are often completed in phases or stages rather than all at once.

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Three Phases of the Migration Process

AWS helps guide companies through the migration process, which can be divided into three sequential phases.

From the first phase to the last, there are AWS services and tools to support your migration.

1. Assess

In this phase, you build the business case for the migration and assess your readiness.

One of the services used in this phase is the Migration Evaluator.

2. Mobilize

In this phase, you prepare the organization and mobilize the resources needed for the migration.

Two services you might use in this phase are AWS Application Discovery Service and the AWS Migration Hub.

3. Migrate and Modernize

In this phase, you use your strategy, plan, and the best practices to migrate and modernize.

Tools to support you include:

• AWS Application Migration Service
• AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)
• AWS DataSync
• AWS Transfer Family
• AWS Snow Family

While AWS Migration Hub helps you mobilize your resources, you can use it as a one-stop place to also manage during the migrate and modernize phase.