Migrations

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Complete seamless cloud migration on time and on budget with expert guidance from an AWS-recognized top partner.

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OVERVIEW

Migrate with Confidence

When you partner with Mission for an AWS cloud migration, you 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 through a wide range of migration services including full infrastructure refactors, specialty cloud migrations, and database migrations.

We act as your trusted guide throughout the cloud migration process, accurately forecasting your Total Cost of Ownership, designing optimal AWS architecture, and ensuring minimal interruptions or downtime.

BENEFITS

Minimize Downtime

AWS-certified architects design and implement your migration plan while identifying blockers, accelerating adoption, and avoiding delays.

Forecast Accurately

We assess the current state of your infrastructure to prevent overprovisioning, stay on budget, and provide a clear idea of future AWS spend.

Migrate Efficiently

We handle tight deadlines and complex implementations with accurate, monitorable timeline management in Mission Control, our cloud services platform for benchmarking, analyzing, and tracking performance in real-time.

Mission facilitated our migration easily with effective communication, productive weekly meetings, and an in-depth knowledge of our platform. One would be hard-pressed to find a team that is as capable, committed, and hardworking as the Mission team.

ZACH COLON

CTO

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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.

Assess

Assess Factory is Mission’s structured methodology for migration discovery, design, and planning, based on the framework of AWS’s Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). Assess Factory moves you from stage zero to a clear, validated migration plan with costs, timelines, architecture, and risks defined early. We’ll create an Assess Output Report (AOR) on your current and future state, generate a scoped, execution-ready plan for migrating, and provide guidance on modernization options.

Mobilize

Here, we build migration capability and execute the migration waves. Mission and AWS will address the gaps in your organization’s readiness uncovered during the Assess phase, prepare your environment with a Landing Zone where we can launch your workloads, and ensure networking, security, and account structure align with your business objectives. Workload moves are executed with disciplined change control and clear status reporting.

Modernize

The final design of your architecture is carried out, with each workload migrated and validated for performance and objectives established at the outset. After workloads are stable on AWS, we modernize applications by your priorities, selectively improving performance, resiliency, security posture, and cost efficiency. As a final step, we’ll conduct a knowledge transfer, including necessary documentation, configuration templates, and guidance on operating principles for your environment.

Assess

Mobilize

Modernize

Frequently Asked Questions

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?

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 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 key part of every engagement. We 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, and so on. All of these elements 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 require 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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