Why migrate your Windows workloads to AWS?
Migrating Windows workloads to the cloud has many advantages, from improved security and performance, to enabling product innovation and improving time-to-market. AWS supports everything you need to build and run Windows applications, including Windows Server, Active Directory, .NET, System Center, SQL Server, and more.
Reduced Security Risk
As cyberattacks become increasingly sophisticated, it’s important to ensure that your workloads are secure and running on the latest versions. AWS offers easy upgrade paths and over 200 security, compliance, and governance services to make sure you stay secure.
Improved Compliance
With 89 security standards and compliance certifications, AWS is a leader in compliant workloads. Combined with our 24×7 managed services and deep compliance expertise, you can be sure that your environments will always meet the latest industry standards for compliance.
A Better Experience
There’s a reason AWS hosts more Windows workloads than any other cloud provider. As an AWS Advanced Partner, we can provide a proven framework and powerful features to make migration or modernization seamless, regardless of what Windows versions you’re running.
Lower Ownership Cost
Running Windows on AWS gives you total control over your resource usage and licensing, and can provide significantly lower TCO compared to running workloads on-premises. It also reduces financial overhead from maintaining servers, and eliminates the risk of paying a premium for end-of-support events.
Example use cases for Windows migration
Here are a few of the ways you can use AWS for your Windows workloads.
End-of-Support Migration
50-60% of on-premises Windows workloads are running on unsupported versions of Windows. Many of these workloads can be moved to AWS and updated to run on the latest Windows Server without any code changes, so you can avoid the risks associated with maintaining end-of-life platforms.
SQL Server on AWS
There are a variety of options for migrating Windows SQL server to AWS to take advantage of the increased functionality, scale, and reliability of the cloud. You can continue to run SQL Server on EC2, migrate to a managed database like Amazon RDS, or modernize your databases with a variety of supported database engines.
Application Modernization
Moving your Windows workloads to the cloud opens up new possibilities for development, and gives you access to the latest technologies like Deep Learning AMI for Windows Server, production support for Kubernetes, and a fully managed native-Windows file system in the cloud.
Microsoft Products on AWS (SharePoint, Exchange)
AWS can also provide improved the availability and performance of your on-premises Windows services like SharePoint and Exchange and enable you to resize resources based on demand for compute or storage, and take advantage of multiple Availability Zones to improve access to services.
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Our proven migration process
We'll take you through your migration process with confidence. We know that no two cloud migration projects are alike, so we always start with a discussion around your challenges and requirements, working on a strategy together.
Discovery
We’ll provide an in-depth assessment of your environment and application dependencies along with a proposed plan, methodology, cost and timeline.
Planning
We’ll create a minimal disruption plan for your migration, and determine the best combination of tools and professional services for your needs.
Migration
After extensive testing, we’ll execute the migration plan and provide up-to-date status during each migration phase, ensuring a seamless go-live event.
Management
After your migration, we can provide full suite of 24×7 managed services to make sure your AWS environments are always secure, reliable, and fully optimized.
Modernization made easy
Package your legacy applications to run on newer Windows Server versions without any code changes.
As advanced AWS Windows partners, we can provide a comprehensive, low-lift solution for migrating your legacy applications to a supported version of Windows Server on AWS.
Using AWS EMP, an exclusive tool set only available to select AWS partners, we’ll conduct an application assessment, package your application for modern OS compatibility, and deploy your application on a supported version of Windows Server running in AWS.
The benefits of modernizing your Windows applications with Connectria
Decouple your legacy application from the underlying OS, so you can continue to run legacy applications into the future.
Improve security and performance by running your software on the latest platform.
Ensure compliance with industry regulations.
Reduce operational costs associated with refactoring or recoding.
Eliminate extended support costs for EOL Windows versions.
