During the readiness phase, the focal point will be for Cloud Constructors to address the gaps discovered in your organization’s prior assessment results.

We assist with analyzing your current environment, drafting an interdependent topology, and determining the most convenient migration strategy (lift-and-shift or re-factoring). At this point, our architects will draft blueprints for provisioning a secure, highly available & fault tolerant environment in AWS for you. If the service plan offering you choose dictates Cloud Constructor engineers need to fully manage your AWS environment additional billing details will need to be discussed.

The 7 standard cloud migration strategies to take into consideration below:

1.) Refactor/Re-architect. Transform an application by altering its architecture and leveraging cloud-native features to enhance agility, performance, and scalability. This usually involves porting the operating system and database.

2.) Replatform (Lift and Reshape). Transfer an application to the cloud, incorporating some optimization to benefit from cloud capabilities.

3.) Repurchase (Drop and Shop). Transition to another product, often by adopting a SaaS model instead of a traditional licensing approach.

4.) Rehost (Lift and Shift). Migrate an application to the cloud without implementing changes to utilize cloud features.

5.) Relocate (Hypervisor-Level Lift and Shift). Shift infrastructure to the cloud without the need for new hardware, application rewrites, or adjustments to current operations. Technologies like VMware Cloud enable this migration approach.

6.) Retain (Revisit). Maintain applications in their original environment. This can include applications that need significant refactoring, which can be deferred to a future time, or legacy applications that remain in place due to a lack of business justification for migration.

7.) Retire. Discontinue or eliminate applications that are no longer required in the source environment.