AWS Cloud Migration Services: Lift, Shift, or Modernize - NEW
AWS Migration Competency Partner
Cloud Migration Services for AWS
Move applications, data, and infrastructure to AWS with a workload-by-workload plan, tested cutovers, and an experienced migration team. Stratus10 handles the assessment, cloud foundation, migration waves, validation, and handoff.
Numerous VMs and 140+ VPN connections
migrated for one client
A multi-billion-row database
moved with just 16 minutes of write downtime
AWS Migration Competency
Advanced Consulting Partner
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Current-state inventory, readiness findings, directional economics and a migration roadmap.
What are cloud migration services?
Cloud migration services cover the assessment, planning, technical build, and controlled movement of applications, databases, servers, and data from a data center or another environment to the cloud. A strong migration plan also defines the target AWS architecture, maps workload dependencies, sequences cutovers, and gives the team a tested rollback path.
Stratus10 focuses on AWS. We help companies decide what should move, what should change before or after the move, and how to complete each migration wave without losing sight of security, uptime, licensing, or operating cost.
A migration plan should be specific enough to execute.
For BoviSync, Stratus10 moved a production PostgreSQL database with billions of rows from a self-managed EC2 deployment to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. A staged dry run, change data capture, validation checks, and a documented rollback plan kept the infrastructure migration separate from the later database upgrade. Production write availability was interrupted for about 16 minutes during the upgrade window.
When companies bring in Stratus10
A migration usually starts with a business constraint, not a desire to move servers for its own sake. Common triggers include:
- A data-center contract or hardware refresh is approaching.
- Windows Server, SQL Server, database, or application components are reaching end of support.
- A self-managed database or server fleet is becoming difficult to scale.
- The company needs stronger resilience, disaster recovery, or secure remote access.
- Licensing costs or infrastructure operations are consuming too much engineering time.
- A product team needs a cloud foundation that can support faster releases and future modernization.
If the business case is still unclear, start with the free migration assessment. The assessment is designed to show the current estate, readiness gaps, directional economics, workload dependencies, and a practical sequence for next steps.
What Stratus10 can migrate to AWS
Applications and server workloads
Move physical or virtual servers and application stacks to Amazon EC2 or an appropriate managed service. Stratus10 assesses dependencies, network requirements, availability targets, and cutover constraints before assigning a migration strategy.
Databases and data platforms
Migrate self-managed databases to Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Amazon Redshift, or another AWS data service when the workload is a fit. The work can include full data load, change data capture, schema reconciliation, testing, read-tier design, and production cutover.
Data centers and connected networks
Plan and execute data-center exits, including virtual machines, file systems, site-to-site VPNs, routing, and connectivity. For Advent Resources, Stratus10 migrated numerous VMs and more than 140 site-to-site VPN connections to AWS and consolidated the network through AWS Transit Gateway.
Microsoft and Windows workloads
Assess Windows Server, SQL Server, and licensing requirements before the move. Depending on the application, the plan may keep the workload on Windows, move the database to a managed service, or create a later modernization path toward Linux, open-source databases, containers, or serverless services.
Application and platform migrations
Move multi-tier applications, analytics workloads, messaging systems, and customer platforms to AWS. The target design can include Infrastructure as Code, automated deployment, observability, autoscaling, and high availability when those capabilities support the business case.
How our AWS migration process works
Stratus10 follows the AWS migration framework: Assess, Mobilize, Migrate & Modernize. The work inside each phase changes based on the size and risk of the environment.
Assess the current estate
We inventory infrastructure and applications, review utilization, map dependencies, identify licensing constraints, and document business requirements. The output is an executable migration business case and prioritized roadmap.
Typical outputs include
- Current-state inventory and utilization baseline
- Application and infrastructure dependency map
- Migration readiness gaps across business, process, people, platform, operations and security
- Directional AWS cost and licensing model
- Initial migration strategy for each workload
- Risk register and recommended migration sequence
Mobilize the team and AWS foundation
The Mobilize phase closes the gaps found during assessment. Stratus10 designs the target environment, security baseline, networking, access model, logging, backup approach, and operating process. We also build the migration wave plan and test the tools and runbooks before production work begins.
Migrate and modernize in controlled waves
Each wave follows a runbook. Workloads are replicated or moved, validated in the target environment, and cut over during an agreed business window. Where possible, Stratus10 keeps source and target systems synchronized until the final cutover and maintains a rollback path until the new environment is stable.
Modernization happens during the migration only when the business value justifies the added complexity. For larger estates, it can be safer to rehost or replatform first, then modernize selected applications after the move.
Validate, document and hand off
After cutover, Stratus10 validates performance, security, backups, monitoring, data integrity, and operational ownership. Your team receives the relevant architecture, runbooks, and knowledge transfer. Ongoing managed services are available when you do not want to own day-to-day AWS operations internally.
Choosing the right migration strategy
A migration assessment assigns a strategy to each workload. The most common choices are:
Rehost
Move the workload to AWS with minimal application change. Rehosting can be appropriate when the deadline is fixed, the application is stable, or modernization would create unnecessary risk during a large move.
Replatform
Make targeted changes while moving, such as shifting a self-managed database to Amazon RDS or Aurora. Replatforming can reduce operational work without requiring a full application rewrite.
Refactor or re-architect
Change the application architecture to use cloud-native services, microservices, containers, serverless computing, or managed data platforms. This option can improve scale and release speed, but it requires more engineering and testing. See application modernization services.
Retire, retain, relocate, or repurchase
Some workloads should be decommissioned, kept in place, moved without a platform change, or replaced with a SaaS product. Those decisions belong in the business case because migrating everything can preserve cost and complexity that the company no longer needs.
Risk controls built into the migration
Dependency mapping before wave planning
Servers are only one part of a workload. Stratus10 maps databases, integrations, authentication, network flows, scheduled jobs, and downstream users so the wave plan does not break a working business process.
Dry runs and cutover rehearsals
High-risk migrations are tested in staging before production. The team validates timing, scripts, application behavior, data checks, and escalation steps before the live window.
Continuous replication when the workload allows it
Services such as AWS Application Migration Service, AWS Database Migration Service, and AWS DataSync can keep source and target environments synchronized during the transition. The selected tool depends on the workload and data requirements.
Runbooks, validation, and rollback
Production cutovers follow a documented sequence with owners, checkpoints, validation criteria, and rollback conditions. Application behavior and data integrity determine whether a cutover succeeded.
Selected AWS migration results
Prime Time Produce: data-center exit in just over a month
Stratus10 helped Prime Time Produce move out of a co-located data center while the business continued operating nearly around the clock. The migration shifted the company from a hardware-refresh cycle to AWS and reduced the balance-sheet impact of the refresh by more than $100,000. Stratus10 also helped secure AWS funding equal to about one-third of the project cost.
Advent Resources: VMs and 140+ VPN connections
Advent Resources needed to close its data center and replace a legacy network design. Stratus10 migrated numerous VMs, moved more than 140 site-to-site VPN connections to AWS Managed VPN and Transit Gateway, and built an automated AMI pipeline for future deployments.
BoviSync: multi-billion-row Aurora migration
A phased migration to Aurora PostgreSQL removed a fixed storage ceiling and reduced BoviSync's read-tier cost by 63%. Aurora Optimized Reads cut storage-tier read traffic by 98%, and the later database upgrade required just 16 minutes of write downtime.
Web Shop Manager: repeatable customer migrations
Stratus10 re-architected the network, used AWS Application Migration Service and AWS Database Migration Service to keep source and target systems synchronized, and created parameterized CloudFormation templates. New customer environments could be launched in minutes instead of days or weeks.
What a migration engagement produces
- Migration business case and directional TCO
- Workload-level 7R recommendations
- Security, identity, networking, backup and logging design
- Replication, migration and Infrastructure as Code assets
- Documentation and knowledge transfer
- Current-state inventory and dependency map
- AWS target architecture and landing-zone plan
- Migration wave plan and cutover schedule
- Test plan, validation checklist, and rollback runbook
- Post-migration operations plan
FAQs
Timing depends on workload count, dependencies, data volume, licensing, and cutover constraints. A focused migration may take several weeks. A data-center exit or application portfolio usually runs in waves over several months. The assessment creates the timeline after the environment and business deadlines are understood.
The assessment reviews infrastructure, applications, utilization, dependencies, readiness, licensing, and operating requirements. It produces a directional business case, AWS costs over time, workload-level migration recommendations, known risks, and a prioritized roadmap.
The current Stratus10 offer is a no-cost AWS migration assessment for eligible projects. AWS funding and incentive eligibility varies by workload, projected AWS usage, program rules, and approval. Stratus10 can evaluate eligibility; funding is not guaranteed.
Yes. Stratus10 can migrate a single application, database, server group, or data platform. The same dependency, testing, validation, and rollback discipline still applies.
The plan may use continuous replication, change data capture, staged dry runs, business-window cutovers and a documented rollback path. The right method depends on how the application stores data and what source and target systems support.
Should we modernize during the migration?
Modernize during the move when the change solves a clear business or technical constraint and the added testing is manageable. For a large estate, AWS guidance often favors rehosting or replatforming first, then modernizing selected applications after the environment is stable.
What happens after the workloads are on AWS?
The team validates the environment, completes documentation and knowledge transfer and closes remaining operational issues. Stratus10 can also manage monitoring, patching, backups, security operations, incident response and ongoing optimization through Managed AWS Services.
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Start with an AWS migration assessment
Get a current-state inventory, readiness findings, directional economics, workload recommendations and a practical migration roadmap. You keep the assessment even if you decide not to proceed with Stratus10.
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