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Tips on Migrating your Existing Applications to the AWS Cloud

Tips on Migrating your Existing Applications to the AWS Cloud

Migrating to the cloud has become the need of the hour for every business these days. And why not? Cloud computing provides a flexible and scalable platform that supports business growth. It gives companies a competitive technological and business edge that helps them thrive in the ever-evolving, competitive, and dynamic modern-day business environment.

Nevertheless, migrating your existing application to the AWS cloud is a massive project, and demands prudent investments that help you achieve the desired results.
According to a TechRepublic report, 73% of cloud migrations take a year or longer to complete. Again, as per another report on TechRepublic, 62% of companies consider cloud computing projects to be more complicated than they thought, and 55% of organizations, exceeded their cloud budget.

Considering the above stats, and looking at the criticality of cloud migrations, you must stay careful across every phase of the migration project. You must partner with the right AWS cloud company, and plan out the entire gamut of activities involved in the process of migration to ensure timely completion of the project, and stay within the cloud computing budget.
Following the below, six tips to migrating existing applications to the AWS cloud will help you achieve your cloud computing objectives and optimize its benefits in the long run.

6 Tips to Migrate Existing Applications to AWS Cloud

Planning for AWS cloud migration involves a range of complex activities and functions to ensure you do what is necessary, and in a beneficial yet compliant way.

1. Find a Reputed AWS Migration and Service Partner

The first step. Do not plan for AWS migration on your own, especially if your specialization area entirely different from that of AWS, cloud, and related technologies.
Search for an experienced, reputed and knowledgeable partner with the necessary AWS technical and strategic expertise, and AWS tools and technologies, coupled with the best security measures, and practices to ensure end-to-end and successful AWS migration.

2. Evaluation of the Business Needs

Technically, they call it due diligence. It involves completing a full discovery phase, assessing the current and futuristic business needs. Besides, it includes deep diving and understanding the interdependence and interrelationship of various business applications, processes, and data that cloud migration will impact. Further, due diligence comprises looking into the future, preparing for business after migration, and gathering resources necessary to ensure seamless business operations after migration as well.

3. Assessing the Difference AWS Cloud Migration Approaches

Another complexity with cloud migration is that there’s no single and uniform approach to it. The strategy largely depends on your business needs and what you need from migrating to the cloud.
For instance, if you want to change your applications to a newer or an upgraded software version, you will need a repurchase strategy. On the other hand, if your legacy migration requirement is large and you don’t have enough time with you, you can take up the rehost approach.

So, you must know what you want, how you want it, and decide on the approach accordingly. Your AWS partner should be able to help you determine the right AWS cloud migration strategy.

4. Using the Right AWS Resources

AWS has an extensive set of tools, technologies, and resources. These resources enable the migration process that supports application migration right from the planning stage to the post-migration phase of the project. Some of the tools include the following.

  • AWS Application Discovery: Collects pre-migration due diligence insights
  • AWS Migration Hub: A progress monitoring and tracking central dashboard
  • Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration: Optimizes the available bandwidth to enhance rapid data transfer to Amazon S3.
  • AWS Database Migration Service: Reduces downtime by keeping the source database running while the migration is on.
  • Rsync: Copies data directly into the S3 buckets.
  • TSO Logic: Leverages predictive analytics to make data-based recommendations for migration strategy and planning.
  • AWS Snowmobile: Migrates data exabytes in batches.
  • Amazon Kinesis Firehouse: Gathers and ingests numerous streaming data sources
  • Amazon Snowball Edge: Migrates petabytes of data batches, applies onboard storage, and offers computing capabilities.

Of course, there are many other tools, as well. Make sure that your AWS cloud service provider uses all the tools required to ensure optimal results.

5. Conducting a Comprehensive Security Assessment

As you move to the cloud, your data governance requirements will change. Your AWS cloud service provider must incorporate the new data governance requirements into the cloud adoption plan. Ensure that you check whether the responsibility of compliance is yours, or your cloud provider’s or shared.
Do a pre-migration security review, particularly if your business has to comply with regulations. A complete security assessment must include the following factors.

  • Review data destruction parameters
  • Conduct a thorough review of the policy and update it.
  • Review access control and encryption standards in the cloud.
  • Developing a post-migration plan that involves decommissioning the old equipment.

6. Identify Repetitive Processes and Try to Automate them.

A lot of processes during migration may turn repetitive, and following all of them manually may prove expensive. It will also increase the overall time required to complete the migration process. Hence, try and automate them. It will save a lot of time and money. Besides, you will have more time to focus on the strategic aspects than attending routine activities and processes.

Fideltech – AWS Cloud Configuration and Maintenance Service Provider

Fideltech is a global IT company based in Japan. Fidel works as the AWS cloud configuration and maintenance service provider for companies, including logistics, banking, healthcare, eCommerce, hospitality, etc. Fideltech uses the latest AWS tools, technologies, and employs a team of certified AWS professionals. It adheres to the required data security protocol, practices, and measures.

If you plan to migrate to AWS cloud soon, and searching for the best AWS cloud partner, connect with Fideltech at 03-6261-3309, or write an email at salesfidel@fideltech.com.

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