AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA)
Successful AWS migrations begin with an MRA
What is an MRA?
Cloud migrations are complex and can easily become time-consuming and unnecessarily costly without proper planning and preparation. You need to consider all the business, operations, infrastructure and budgetary factors involved before proceeding with a migration.
The AWS MRA examines the current state of your business and environment, identifies any readiness gaps and makes recommendations to ensure you're best prepared for migrating to the cloud.
As an AWS Premier Tier Services and Migration Competency Partner, Mission Cloud has the expertise to help you successfully migrate to AWS. We use AWS MRA and migration best practices to help you identify, plan for and address financial, technological and operational challenges that come with a migration.
Benefits of an AWS MRA
Your Own Strategic Migration Roadmap
Strategic roadmapping through the MRA allows for organizational consensus around a clear path forward and understanding what success looks like.
Support for Business and Operations Modernization
Stay competitive in your industry by driving business objectives and innovation through modernization on AWS.
Mitigation Against Risk & Costly Surprises
Avoid migration pitfalls and complexities through discovery tools, automation and proven processes. We'll help you determine all the requirements and costs post-migration to avoid unwelcome surprises.
Ongoing Guidance From AWS-Vetted Migration Experts
Leverage our AWS-certified cloud migration experts that fill capability gaps and provide guidance and meaningful insights to optimize your migration and ensure a smooth transition to AWS.
Holistic Assessment of Your Transformation Needs
As part of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework, we determine your level of cloud adoption and migration readiness. A heatmap and radar chart provide an overview of your organization's cloud adoption readiness scores and we can contextualize these findings.
Reliable Forecasting for Optimal Financial Planning
Mission Cloud gathers information about your infrastructure to help you prevent overprovisioning and stay on budget. We emphasize accurate financial forecasting and provide increased certainty, transparency and granularity into the factors that drive spend.
What You Can Expect From Your MRA
After the workshop, we analyze the collected data and schedule a one-hour feedback session where we provide you with a full report of your MRA, projected total cost of ownership (TCO) and recommendations for the next steps.
Who Is the Workshop For?
- CEO
- CTO/Chief Architect
- CIO
- VP Engineering
- IT Finance Leader
- Security Leader
- Network Leader
- Application Dev Leader
- Operations Leader
- Applications Owner
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Track the Progress of Your Migration in Real Time
Now with Mission Control’s newest feature, MAP Engage, we can empower your migration by reporting on its progress in real time, ensuring you meet the timelines and commitments for your funding.
“I’ve worked at Evolve Media for nine years, and the company has been around nearly two decades now. In all that time we have never before had a partner that we could count on the way we count on Mission. The Mission team was there leading our particularly time-sensitive migration every step of the way – even during the 18-hour shifts as our deadline approached. That kind of trust in a partner is something we’d never had. I knew the people on Mission’s team cared – and really understood AWS migrations.”
Will I experience downtime during my AWS migration?
This depends on the specifics of the workloads you’re moving, the type of migration you’re doing, and your preferred timeline, but in general we will optimize to ensure the minimal necessary downtime. Since this is often a concern, this is one of the first items we’ll address when constructing your migration plan and we’ll discuss strategies and mitigations we can employ to minimize the impact on your business.
How much experience does Mission Cloud have with cloud migrations?
Lots. Mission has migrated hundreds of customers to AWS, both from all the providers you’ve heard of and many you haven’t. We’ve been certified by AWS for migrations work with the Migrations Competency, and we are recognized by AWS as the #1 Partner at “recognized revenue” in its Migration Acceleration Program—that means getting workloads on to AWS rapidly and exactly as predicted in our migration plans.
What are the various migration strategies?
- Rehost – Also commonly referred to as “lift-and-shift,” this strategy involves reproducing your current architecture as much as possible. This can be an ideal first phase for some migrations, but is often the least efficient strategy in the long-term.
- Relocate – This strategy is most-common for inter-AWS migrations or replatforming to a cloud version of an application. This often means moving resources between accounts, VPCs, or regions and is common during acquisitions when a new account architecture is necessary.
- Replatform – This strategy takes advantage of AWS-managed services for your workloads, like moving a database to RDS, moving to AWS-specific hardware, like Graviton, or even modernizing OSes and moving to Linux to reduce licensing costs. Replatforming is a great option when you want to preserve a legacy application’s structure while reducing its operational overhead.
- Refactor – Also known as “Re-Architect,” this is about modernizing your applications as you move them to the cloud. Often there can be significant performance and cost wins for re-architecting some or even all of your workloads as part of a migration and engaging with this option is often ideal for cost of ownership.
How do I know which migration strategy to choose?
The truth is, you won’t—not until you’ve accurately assessed your business and cost objectives. Some businesses think they will prefer a simple migration that reproduces their current architecture but discover the inefficiencies aren’t acceptable. That’s why we make assessing your current state and business objectives a part of every engagement—to help you find the combination of optimization, timeline, and cost of ownership that best meets your needs.
How can I minimize downtime during a migration?
This comes down to preparation, planning, and execution. Knowing what you’re attempting to migrate, what critical systems you need to have online, elements of your architecture that depend on a given service’s availability or consistency—all of these elements can create downtime if they’re not appropriately managed. We’ll work with you to identify these critical components of your system and come up with plans to mitigate the effects of a transition and make it as seamless as possible.
How long does a migration take?
The real answer is: it depends on how complex the workload is and the migration strategy. A lift and shift strategy, for example, can be faster than a refactor strategy—but it may also take more tuning and right-sizing to meet your performance and cost objectives. Some migrations take weeks. Some unfold over multiple phases while taking a year or more. But you won’t know the real answer without an accurate assessment of your current environment and objectives for AWS adoption.
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A Mission Cloud MRA ensures you fully understand your company’s migration readiness and prepares you to avoid costly risks and delays in the process. Schedule a free consultation call with a Mission Cloud Advisor to find out how to get started with an MRA.