Our services revolve around the definition of Cloud Migration, which is the process of moving data, applications, or other business elements to a cloud computing environment. Multiple cloud migration strategies are available for consideration when choosing your plans. One common model is the transfer of data and applications from a local, on-premises data center to the public cloud. This would be considered a lift and shift strategy.

The Lift & Shift strategy is the most popular due to its convenience factor, but not always, the Cloud Constructors recommended option. The second most common migration strategy is refactoring or provisioning from scratch in your new AWS environment. The benefits of this service plan illuminate when you take advantage of cloud’s compute optimization and cost efficiency technology building from the ground up.

Whether migrating virtual or physical servers, pain points are typically the same when it comes to hindering cloud migration initiatives. Those which are labor intensive and cost-prohibitive, and those involving potential security implications, dependencies, and skill set shortages. By utilizing Cloud Constructors you can focus on daily operations while we scope out your migration strategy. 

We assist in all aspects of verifying your company is fully prepared for migrating to the AWS cloud from an on-premise environment. Whether your company is planning on migrating virtual servers such as a VMware environment or co-located data center with physical servers to the Amazon Web Service (AWS) cloud. Our Cloud Solution Architects are committed to ensuring small to medium size businesses have a seamless and cost effective migration to cloud. 

High Level migration Goals and Considerations:

• Shared Responsibility Models – We assist in helping you understand separation of duties between you and cloud providers
• Lift and shift vs Refactoring – Educate on migrating your websites, databases, etc…”as is” or provision from scratch
• Discovery – Scanning your current environment helps determine the optimal strategy
• Security – Identify and segment sensitive data for secure transfer 
• Data transfer – Recommend secure transfer methods and storage options
• Disaster Recovery – Evaluate Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) & Recovery Time Objectives (RTO)
• High Availability – Analyze single points of failure and deploy redundant systems to avoid downtime
• Load Balancing – Advise on traffic spikes, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) management, and load balancers
• Cost Efficiency – Extrapolate long term cost savings by switching from (CAPEX) to (OPEX)