Moving workloads from on-premises data centers to Amazon Web Services is one of the most consequential decisions a technology organization can make. The right cloud migration cuts infrastructure spend while unlocking elastic capacity for your engineering team. A rushed lift-and-shift, on the other hand, can lock you into higher operating costs and technical debt that takes years to unwind.
The articles below cover the full lifecycle of an AWS migration. You’ll find workload assessment and business case development, target architecture design, database migration strategy, application refactoring choices, cutover planning, and post-migration cost optimization. Whether you’re evaluating a first pilot workload or planning a multi-year modernization roadmap, these resources walk through the technical and organizational decisions our team helps clients work through every day.
Stratus10 is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with deep experience across the AWS migration toolchain, including Application Migration Service, Database Migration Service, Migration Hub, and the Migration Acceleration Program. If you're planning a migration and want an outside perspective on strategy or a hands-on partner to execute it, our Cloud Migration services team is the fastest way to get a defensible plan grounded in your specific workloads and business context.
Explore essential cloud migration and modernization strategies. You'll learn:
Why most cloud migrations fail and common pitfalls to avoid
A practical framework for migration and modernization that works across AWS and Azure
Devising a robust cloud strategy is crucial to leverage the benefits of cloud computing. However, several common mistakes and pitfalls can derail your efforts, leading to increased costs, security risks, and operational inefficiencies. This comprehensive guide highlights these pitfalls and offers insights on how to avoid them, ensuring a successful cloud journey.
Many small and midsize businesses (SMBs) struggle to keep IT infrastructure costs under control. Data centers, with their hefty hardware, software, and maintenance needs, can quickly become a budget black hole.
DigitalOcean and AWS are both cloud computing providers that offer services such as virtual machines, storage, and databases. DigitalOcean focuses primarily on virtual private servers (VPS) for hosting web applications and is best known for its simple web interface. AWS’ comprehensive and feature-rich platform offers a wider range of services including computing, machine learning, and analytics, and has an ecosystem of partners spanning their global infrastructure.
A data lake is a centralized repository that allows businesses to store structured and unstructured data at any scale. It provides a single source of data that can be analyzed and used to support a variety of business needs, such as reporting, analytics, machine learning, and more.
Thanks to rapid advancements creating faster, more reliable computing technologies, many companies are veering away from traditional on-premise databases to cloud-based servers. For those considering migrating their Microsoft SQL Server databases to the cloud, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure remains the go-to hosting service.
Credit Unions are facing the era of digital acceleration with unique requirements that can better scale their company and customer experience. AWS is best positioned to offer a tailored solution because of its long-standing experience working with financial services companies and public sector organizations.
SAN DIEGO, Calif., August 17, 2021 – Stratus10 announced today that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Competency status. This designation recognizes that Stratus10 provides AWS cloud migration services and strategies to achieve business outcomes and to help customers move successfully to AWS through all phases of complex migration projects, discovery, planning, migration and operations.
The popularity of utilizing cloud technology to host company applications and store company data has been drastically growing. Many enterprises have migrated their on-premise workloads and storage to the cloud, and many new companies decide to start in the cloud. In fact, Cisco has estimated that 94% of workloads in 2021 will be processed on some sort of cloud data center.
