AWS Partners

Benefits of engaging an AWS Competency Partner

Migrating your Microsoft workloads efficiently to the cloud requires careful planning and streamlined implementation. Key steps include scoping, creating a cloud migration business case, gaining executive sponsor alignment, setting cloud financial management KPIs, building a cloud center of excellence, validating migration services, deploying automation tools for large-scale migrations, and extending security strategy to the cloud.

We recommend you engage a validated AWS Competency Partner to lead your organization through your migration journey. AWS Partners are strategic experts and experienced builders that help address the aforementioned key steps and your business objectives by leading you through all phases of your migration journey. The AWS Partner community features over 100,000 partners from over 150 countries who can support you in your cloud journey and help you to focus on innovating, increasing agility, and reducing costs.

Build a plan

AWS Partners can perform readiness assessments, create migration plans, and bring migration tools to accelerate your journey to the cloud. Additionally, they can help you close skill gaps, recommend cost optimization strategies, and help you qualify for exclusive migration incentives to subsidize the cost of migrating to AWS.

Optimize costs

In today's rapidly evolving technological landscape, many organizations face significant cost challenges when it comes to their digital transformation journey. One common concern is the perception that the cloud is too expensive, making it difficult to see the significant business benefits it offers. Additionally, the cost of modernizing your technology stack can pose financial challenges.

Working with an AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partner ensures access to the most qualified AWS Partners for deploying Microsoft workloads on AWS. These Partners have validated technical capabilities and demonstrated success in helping customers migrate, manage, or deploy Microsoft workloads to AWS. Workloads supported by these partners include Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, Windows File Server, SharePoint, and .NET applications.

AWS Partners use AWS best practices to build secure, available, reliable, performant, and cost-optimized architectures. Partners also help to fully leverage funding made available by AWS to cost optimize and ensure quicker time to value with their expertise. Finally, AWS Partners can leverage the AWS Migration Acceleration Program for Windows to offset your migration cost to AWS.

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Notice

As of April 30, 2024, VMware Cloud on AWS is no longer resold by AWS or its channel partners. The service will continue to be available through Broadcom. We encourage you to reach out to your AWS representative for details.

Many enterprises are heavily invested in on-premises infrastructure. It's possible that your organization has made large investments in VMware software to manage your on-premises infrastructure, and would like to use the same on-premises tools to manage your infrastructure on AWS. You may even have specialized workloads and infrastructure that are challenging to migrate to the cloud but have dependencies on migrated workloads. Also, you might have a hybrid infrastructure pattern, where some of your infrastructure is in a traditional on-premises data center with other parts deployed in the cloud.

When time is of the essence, we recommend you engage an AWS Migration Competency Partner with a proven track record of delivering a broad range of large-scale migrations due to their skilled talent, refined processes, and technological capabilities. Supported workload categories include Windows, SAP, Oracle, VMware on AWS, database, analytics, storage, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, and software as a service.

AWS Partners understand that moving to AWS doesn't mean an all-or-nothing move and getting rid of your present investments. They are adept at optimizing and streamlining infrastructure, optimizing for what parts are best kept on-premises and what parts are best fit for the cloud. AWS has a broad offering of hybrid cloud solutions, which include Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), AWS Direct Connect, and AWS Storage Gateway.

AWS Partners can qualify eligible customers for the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP), a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based on AWS experience migrating thousands of enterprise customers to the cloud. MAP supports specialized workloads through comprehensive tooling, services, guidance, training, and additional incentives. Specialized workload support is available for mainframe, Windows, storage, VMware Cloud on AWS, SAP, databases, and Amazon Connect.

Enhance security

You may be concerned about the privacy and security of your data. Additionally, you may need assurance that data handling practices comply with the Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We recommend you engage an AWS Security Competency Partner who can provide you with a team of security experts for delivering security-focused solutions for your specific workloads and use cases. AWS Partner solutions enable automation and agility and scaling with your workloads.

At the time of publishing, AWS supports a broad range of security standards and compliance certifications, such as PCI-DSS, HIPAA/HITECH, FedRAMP, GDPR, FIPS 140-2, and NIST 800-171. We help to satisfy compliance requirements for most regulatory agencies around the globe.

Private and public-sector organizations, in some of the most security-sensitive verticals such as healthcare, banking, legal, and pharmaceutical, have trusted AWS to improve their security posture. Whether you're a small, medium, or large enterprise, or a public sector organization, there's an AWS Partner with the right skills and experience available to help you move your business forward. AWS Partner specialists can help you find and connect with the right cloud partners aligned to your business needs. For more information, contact an AWS Partner specialist. To learn how customers around the world accelerate their cloud adoption and fuel innovation with the AWS Partner Network, see Customer Success with AWS Partners.