Migrating Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure Self-Service to AWS
Publication date: July 19, 2023 (Document history)
Adopting AWS for the Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure Self-Service installation presents many benefits such as increased business agility, flexibility, and reduced costs. This whitepaper outlines the benefits of cloud hosting and considerations for migrating Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure Self-Service installation to AWS. It also provides guidance for an organization that plans to AWS their cloud footprint. The content targets technical leaders and business leaders responsible for deploying and managing on-premises Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure Self-Service or enterprise edition on AWS.
Introduction
Creating a new or migrating an existing on-premises Magento Open Source or Adobe Commerce on Cloud Infrastructure Self-Service setup to Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud presents an opportunity to transform your organization by lowering costs, increasing agility, and delivering it reliably and globally. This whitepaper presents a cloud migration strategy and considerations when migrating Magento to AWS.
This whitepaper provides general guidance for cloud migration with specific steps related to migrating Magento open-source installation to cloud and use of the AWS Terraform Quick Start to deploy Magento open-source edition on the AWS Cloud. In addition, the paper provides AWS reference architecture guidance to enable an organization that wants to install Magento enterprise edition on AWS. The first section of the whitepaper describes the reasons to migrate to the cloud and the common challenges that organizations face when migrating to the cloud. Next, the migration process and the migration strategies that organizations can choose from as well as deployment options are discussed. Lastly, the whitepaper concludes by discussing steps necessary to deploy the Quick Start along with security and compliance, architectural components, connectivity and a strategy you can adopt for migration.
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administrators, and DevOps professionals who are planning to
implement or extend their Magento Open Source community editions
workloads on the AWS Cloud using the
Terraform
Quick Start on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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