For the second year running, AWS has recognized us for our outstanding work in its Migrations Acceleration Program—for our budgeting accuracy and speed in moving customer workloads.
When you partner with Mission for your AWS cloud migration services, you’ll receive the hands-on care of experienced professionals who’ve helped hundreds of customers migrate to AWS. We’ve moved customers from on-premises data centers, non-AWS cloud platforms, and PaaS providers like Heroku and Rackspace. We offer a wide range of cloud migration services and can perform full infrastructure refactors or specialty cloud migrations, like Microsoft workloads and database migrations.
You can count on our experience – we act as your trusted guide through the cloud migration process to accurately forecast your Total Cost of Ownership, design an optimal AWS architecture, and ensure you experience minimal interruptions or downtime.
Get a migration plan designed and implemented by our team of AWS-certified architects and engineers. Identify blockers, accelerate your adoption timeline, and avoid delays and downtime.
Accurately Forecast Cost
We assess the current state of your infrastructure to prevent overprovisioning and keep your project on budget. You get accurate financial planning providing a clear idea of future AWS spend.
Migrate Efficiently
We are used to tight deadlines and complex implementations. We'll create an accurate timeline easily monitorable through Mission Control, our first-of-its-kind cloud services platform which lets you benchmark, analyze, and track performance in real-time.
Steps
Leverage Our 3-Phase Migration Process
Ensure a successful cloud migration by fully understanding your current environment and how to best migrate and modernize your infrastructure. Your objectives, requirements, and challenges are our focus as we build an AWS environment that aligns with your business.
Phase 1
Assess
Share your goals as we assess your infrastructure and data architecture to find the best path forward for cloud migration. We’ll gain a comprehensive understanding of your migration readiness with the help of tools such as the Cloud Adoption Framework, the Migration Readiness Assessment, and deep-dive discovery sessions with your key stakeholders.
Phase 2
Mobilize
Mission and AWS will address the gaps in your organization’s readiness uncovered during the assessment. We’ll prepare your environment with a Landing Zone from which we can launch your workloads while ensuring networking, security, and account structure aligns with your business objectives. As pilot workloads go live, we’ll help you reach operational readiness by developing any cloud skills required in their administration.
Phase 3
Migrate and Modernize
The final design of your architecture is carried out, with each workload migrated and validated for performance and cost objectives we established at the outset. Using AWS Migration Hub, you’ll see progress updates across all elements of your cloud migration and easily identify and troubleshoot issues. As a final step, we’ll conduct a knowledge transfer, including necessary documentation, configuration templates, and guidance on operating principles for your environment
Migrate With Proven AWS Tools
When you partner with Mission for your AWS migration and utilize our cloud migration services, you’ll receive the hands-on care of experienced professionals backed with the latest proven AWS tools.
Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA)
The MRA examines the current state of your business and environment, identifies readiness gaps, and makes recommendations to ensure you're prepared to migrate. You can use it to inform your timeline, understand your risks, and develop a migration plan based on its recommendations with Mission’s professional guidance.
AWS MAP assesses your current workloads, calculates the costs and benefits of modernizing, develops your in-house expertise, and qualifies you for financial assistance from AWS. With Mission’s guidance, you’ll navigate the AWS MAP process to plan a cost-effective and well-executed migration.
“Mission's close working relationship and continuous engagement model ensured that our migration to AWS was a clear success, and that their ongoing cloud management continues to be advantageous and cost-efficient."
Clay Kibbons
IT Department Manager at Smitty’s Supply, Inc.
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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 your cloud migration services 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 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 hold the AWS Migration Competency certification and are recognized by AWS as the #1 Partner for 'recognized revenue' in its Migration Acceleration Program, ensuring workloads are migrated to AWS rapidly and exactly as planned.
What are the various cloud 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 cloud 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 cloud 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 cloud 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 cloud 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 cloud migration take?
The real answer is: it depends on how complex the workload is and the cloud 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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