Migration assessment - AWS Transform
Creating and starting a jobMigration assessment workflowTracking the progress of a migration assessment job

Migration assessment

The assessment job type in AWS Transform is designed to provide cost estimates and savings for migrating your workloads to AWS.

This job type uses an advanced AI-powered language model specifically trained for AWS infrastructure analysis. The specialized LLM evaluates Amazon EC2 instance recommendations, performs BYOL (Bring Your Own License) analysis, and determines optimal dedicated host mappings by incorporating real-time Amazon EC2 pricing data and host configuration specifications.

The assessment job type currently supports compute-based workloads. While it includes servers deployed to run specialized workloads, it cannot assess the specialized workloads themselves.

When planning to migrate to AWS you can use this assessment to:

  • Get cost estimates, including Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS and storage cost estimates, for your migration

  • Identify potential savings opportunities

  • Receive Amazon EC2 instance recommendations

  • Analyze licensing options (BYOL)

  • Determine optimal dedicated host mappings

Creating and starting a job

The first step of a migration project is to create an AWS Transform job.

To create and start a new migration assessment job

  1. On your workspace landing page, choose Create a job with AWS Transform.

  2. Choose the migration assessment option.

  3. Review the job details that AWS Transform proposes. You can specify a different name for the job if you'd like.

  4. Choose Create and start a job.

Migration assessment workflow

  1. In the left navigation pane, choose Share on-premises server data.

  2. Upload data files that can be used by AWS Transform for the assessment. Make sure the file includes all the servers that you want to assess for migration to AWS. You can include 30,000 servers per assessment job. The maximum supported file size is 10 MB. These types of files are supported:

  3. To include a storage assessment, upload a NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) file or an Excel file created from the AWS Transform Assessment data template. See Preparing DII files to learn more about DII files. You can download the AWS Transform Assessment Data template from AWS Transform.

  4. Specify the AWS Region where you want to host your migrated workloads. All commercial AWS Regions are supported.

  5. Choose Generate business case. The right pane automatically switches to the Worklog tab where you can track the progress of the job.

  6. Download and review the business case.

  7. (Optional) Use the chat pane to ask AWS Transform questions about your business case.

Preparing DII files

To provide AWS Transform with the necessary data for a storage assessment you have to run NetApp queries and save the results in CSV files. Zip the CSV files and upload the zip to AWS Transform.

For NAS volumes, run these queries:

  • Disk

  • Internal Volumes

  • Storage

  • Share

For SAN volumes, run these queries:

  • Virtual Machines

  • Volume

Follow these steps to run the queries and save the resulting files:

  1. From the home page of your NetApp DII tenant choose Explore and then choose New Metric Query.

  2. Select the query type.

  3. Select a period of 30 days.

  4. Open the settings from the gear icon and choose Select all the columns.

  5. Save as a CSV file by selecting the Export to csv icon.

Tracking the progress of a migration assessment job

The Worklog tab provides a detailed log of the actions that AWS Transform takes, along with human input requests and your responses to those requests. AWS Transform adds entries to the worklog to show the progress of the assessments, including processing uploaded files, analyzing files, generating the assessment report, and any errors that occur.