AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
AWS MIGRATION ACCELERATION PROGRAM (MAP)
AWS Migration Assessment
Build a data-backed AWS migration plan with a clear business case, practical roadmap, and a path to AWS funding.
Stratus10 delivers AWS migration assessments through the AWS Migration Acceleration Program. For eligible organizations, AWS funds the assessment while our team evaluates your environment, dependencies, readiness, licensing, costs, and operational requirements.
Complimentary, no-obligation assessment
Business case and migration roadmap
AWS funding and asset buyback options
Request an AWS Migration Assessment
Tell us about your environment, migration goals, or an upcoming infrastructure milestone.
START WITH A MIGRATION ASSESSMENT
An AWS migration assessment is the starting point for organizations evaluating what it will take to move workloads to AWS. Through the AWS Migration Acceleration Program, commonly called AWS MAP, Stratus10 evaluates your environment, workload dependencies, readiness, costs, licensing, and migration priorities to develop a business case and practical roadmap.
The assessment is the first phase of the borader AWS migration framework: Assess → Mobilize → Migrate & Modernize.
What we assess
- Infrastructure, applications, data, and workload relationships
- Utilization, performance, storage, network, and licensing requirements
- Migration readiness across business, people, process, platform, operations, and security
What you receive
- A clear migration business case with directional AWS costs and licensing considerations
- A prioritized strategy for what to migrate, modernize, and sequence first
- A practical execution path with readiness priorities, next steps, and eligible AWS funding and incentives
Hardware Asset Buyback Program
For organizations retiring on-premises equipment as part of an AWS migration, Stratus10 can evaluate hardware asset buyback options alongside the migration plan. The program helps organizations exit equipment earlier, recover capital, and reduce overlapping infrastructure costs.
Early Asset Retirement
Exit servers, storage, licenses, and refresh cycles ahead of schedule to reduce overlapping infrastructure costs during migration.
We align retirement timing with migration waves so critical systems remain available through cutover.
Capital Redirect
Recover value from eligible hardware and redirect it toward migration, modernization, and automation priorities.
The assessment identifies where recovered capital can support the next phase of your AWS plan.
Operational Streamlining
Reduce routine infrastructure overhead by moving to AWS with an operating model matched to your team.
The roadmap identifies the work, ownership, and operational preparation needed after workloads move.
Capability Uplift
Reinvest savings into performance improvements, stronger cloud security, and emerging AI capabilities.
The business case connects migration economics to the capabilities your business wants to build next.
Assessment Components & Deliverables
• Business
• Process
• People
• Platform
• Operations
• Security
Uncovers issues that could slow or derail migration before workloads move.
• VM configurations
• CPU and memory usage
• OS and storage architecture
• Network patterns and connectivity
Used to determine workload priority and the right migration strategy for each system.
• Physical and virtual systems
• Storage tiers and capacity
• Backup strategies
• Hardware refresh cycles
Establishes a baseline for migration planning.
• CPU, RAM, storage, and network utilization
• Performance requirements
• Licensing constraints
Then mapped to optimized cloud configurations.
• Savings Plans
• Reserved Instances
• On-Demand vs Spot usage
• Dedicated Hosts when required
Aligned to how your workloads actually run.
• Estimated migration economics
• Projected efficiency gains
• Consumption impact
Built for technical and financial stakeholders.
• Migration risk
• Application dependencies
• Execution sequencing
Delivered in a practical roadmap for next steps.
The AWS MAP Process
AWS MAP provides the methodology, partner expertise, tools, and financial support that help organizations move from migration planning to execution.
Assess
Establish a fact-based view of the current environment, migration readiness, costs, dependencies, and business priorities. The assessment produces the business case and roadmap used to guide the work ahead.
Mobilize
Prepare the organization and AWS foundation for delivery. This can include addressing readiness gaps, refining migration waves, establishing governance, and validating the plan for execution.
Migrate & Modernize
Execute migration waves, validate workloads in AWS, and modernize applications or data platforms where it produces a stronger business outcome.
AWS Migration Experience Backed by Proven Delivery
Stratus10 is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner that holds the AWS Migration & Modernization Competency. We bring migration planning, modernization, cost optimization, and security together when the assessment identifies work that needs to happen before, during, or after a workload moves to AWS.
Move Windows application servers to AWS
A phased application-server migration aligned the infrastructure transition with the business and technical requirements of the application.
Plan around application and data requirements
A large dataset and Windows-based environment moved to AWS with database and operational needs considered alongside the infrastructure migration.
Frequently Asked Questions
An AWS migration assessment is a structured evaluation of your current environment, workload dependencies, readiness, operating costs, licensing, and migration priorities. It produces the information needed to create a business case and migration roadmap.
The assessment is the first phase of the AWS Migration Acceleration Program. AWS MAP follows three phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize. The assessment gives the organization a clear starting point before delivery work begins.
Yes. The AWS migration assessment is a no-cost, no-obligation service provided by Stratus10 in partnership with AWS.
The assessment is designed around your actual environment and can evaluate virtual machines, operating systems, databases, storage, network dependencies, hardware-refresh timing, and other factors that affect migration planning.
The hardware asset buyback program helps eligible organizations recover value from retiring on-premises equipment as part of their migration plan. Stratus10 evaluates the opportunity alongside the assessment so hardware exit timing, capital recovery, and workload migration are considered together.
No. Your team receives the assessment findings, business case, and roadmap whether you proceed immediately, plan for a later date, or use the analysis for internal decision-making.
Start With a Clearer AWS Migration Plan
Get a complimentary AWS migration assessment that connects your environment, costs, readiness, dependencies, and business priorities to a practical path forward.
Request an AWS Migration Assessment
Tell us about your environment, migration goals, or an upcoming infrastructure milestone.