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Migrate to AWS
Your Cloud Migration Expert
As AWS Premier Partners, we provide AWS cloud infrastructure managed services including migration of your AWS environments with a security and compliance emphasis.
Migrations to AWS include moving any workload from an on-premises environment, hosting facility, or other public cloud. We are working with many organizations to migrate workloads such as applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers, or entire data centers.
Based on our years of experience, we’ve built a complete and proven approach for migrating workloads to AWS, so that you can gain business benefits faster.
What are Migrations?
Migration helps businesses move on-premises workloads (enterprise applications, databases, data warehouses, virtual desktops, etc.) to a cloud infrastructure to achieve higher workload performance and reduce IT infrastructure costs.
1-2 months
for small workloads
6+ months
for medium and large workloads
Why Migrate to the AWS Cloud?
With Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can provision compute power, storage, and other resources,
gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services as your business demands them.
31%
average infrastructure cost savings vs on-premises.
7x
fewer downtime hours in 2018 vs the next largest cloud provider.
62%
more efficient IT infrastructure management vs on-premises.
Migrating to AWS
Every migration roadmap is different.
Phase 1: Cloud Migration Discovery & Analysis
Migration helps organizations move on-premises workloads (enterprise applications, databases, data warehouses, virtual desktops, etc.) to a cloud infrastructure to achieve higher workload performance and reduce IT infrastructure costs.
Migration of an organization’s first workload takes from 1-2 months (for small workloads) to 6+ months (for medium and large workloads). Subsequent workloads require less time to migrate due to the gained experience.
- Identify Migration Goals
- Source Discovery / Discovery Tooling
- Conduct a Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) based on the following 6 principles of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF)
- Perform Optimization and License Assessment (OLA)
Achieve fast and seamless MAP migrations to the Cloud
Phase 2: Migration Strategy Planning & Design
Organizations begin to contemplate how to migrate an application during the second phase of the Migration Process. This is when they determine what is in their environment, what their interdependencies are, and what would be easy or difficult to migrate. Using this knowledge, organizations can outline a plan on how they will approach migrating each of the applications in their portfolio and in what order.
Learn more about the six application migration strategies in AWS.
- Workload / Application identification for test and validation
- Recommend migration and modernization strategy (6 R’s – Rehosting, Replatforming, Refactoring, Repurchasing, Retire, Retain
- Provide a cost optimized Architecture outing AWS Services, validated against chosen migration and modernization strategy
- Estimate and present TCO and ROI of business value for migrating to AWS
- Prepare a detailed RACI
Phase 3: Migrate & Modernize
We have expertise in offering solutions that enable customers to migrate and modernize applications while they move to the cloud. As AWS Premier Partner can assist customers optimize cost and reduce TCO, modernize legacy applications and data, and reduce operational burden.
- Accelerate
- Scale
- Modernize
Phase 4: Operate & Optimize
In the operate and optimize phase, you can maximize the benefits derived from hosting applications on AWS. The optimizing activities can address cost, performance, security, or resiliency concerns for your application stack.
These deliverables include but are not limited to:
- Business Continuity Strategy
- Patch and Release Management
- Operations Health Monitoring
- Incident and Problem Management
- Cost and Billing Management
Phase 5: Customer Enablement & Training
AWS Customer Enablement services augment your team’s cloud skills by delivering deep AWS expertise where, when, and how you need it. You can get projects started faster, build high-performing applications more quickly, and continuously optimize costs. AWS Customer Enablement helps you move faster and achieve success with AWS.
These deliverables include but are not limited to:
- Provide hands on training on the management of the Cloud environment
- Handover of Architecture documents, Disaster Recovery (DR) and Backup policies, Cost Management and Optimization Reports and Compliance Reports
- Obtain a Customer Sign-Off document confirming all project milestones and deliverables have been met to the client’s satisfaction
Phase 6: Cost Optimization
We are focused on helping you avoid unnecessary costs.
Key topics include:
- Understanding and controlling where money is being spent
- Selecting the most appropriate and correct number of resource types
- Analysing spend over time
- Scaling to meet business needs without overspending
Phase 7: Well-Architected Framework Review
The Framework provides a consistent approach to evaluate your workloads against AWS best practices and help build secure, high-performing, resilient, scalable, and efficient infrastructures for your applications and workloads.
The Well-Architected Framework is based on six pillars:
- Operational Excellence
- Security
- Reliability
- Performance Efficiency
- Cost Optimization
- Sustainability
Phase 8: Ongoing Support (Managed Services)
With our expertise, experience, and systems, we can provide you with the Managed Services and Service Level Agreement you need for your AWS workloads.
- Guaranteed engineer availability to provide incident support
- Monitoring of critical infrastructures and workloads to ensure they are functioning optimally to limit, detect and respond to incidents
- Deliver continuous assurance that your infrastructure is compliant, secure, and optimized
- Patch management to control and update the security and system patches for optimal performance and security
- Security management with best-in-class real-time threat and compliance monitoring tools
- Analysis to identify opportunities to optimize performance and costs
- ITIL Service Desk for incident management and service request
- IT Service Management (ITSM) PSA systems for Ticket, SLA, Help Desk, and Service Desk management
Migration Customer Success Stories
AWS Migration
An online fashion retailer, created to assist the online shopping society find fashion apparel with ease, all from a single platform.
AWS Migration
South Africa’s largest independent online payments processor trusted by retailers, migrates to AWS and achieves Level 1 PCI DSS compliance.
Windows Global Migration
Silicon Overdrive architected a best practice, scalable, highly available, and secure solution on the AWS Cloud.
Sakai LMS
Wits had an urgent requirement to move their Sakai Learning Management System (LMS) from their on-premise servers to the AWS.
HR Migration
Silicon Overdrive architected a best practice, scalable, highly available, and secure solution on the AWS Cloud.
Migration Resources
Migrate and Modernize to Achieve Your Business Goals
Do you know why companies are migrating and modernizing their workloads? Listen to one of our Cloud experts and CEO of Silicon Overdrive, Gareth Bowers.
Future-proof Your Business on the AWS Cloud
This presentation summarizes the AWS modernization journey, benefits of the Cloud, migration strategies, AWS MAP, and the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review.
Migrate and Modernize to achieve your Business Goals
This presentation summarizes the AWS modernization journey, migration strategies and best practices, the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review, and how Silicon Overdrive assists with your migration.
Why Silicon Overdrive?
Founded in 1995, Silicon Overdrive has over 25 years of experience as a leading IT Managed Services business.
Silicon Overdrive has significant experience and expertise in helping customers migrate, secure, optimize and manage their AWS infrastructure, as well as achieve and maintain security and compliance, including POPIA, GDPR, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and HIPAA.
We have been awarded AWS System Integrator Partner of the Year Sub-Saharan Africa 2023, AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year Sub-Saharan Africa 2021, and AWS Consulting Partner of the Year Sub-Saharan Africa 2020.
We are an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, AWS Education Services Competency Partner, AWS Migration Competency Partner, AWS DevOps Competency Partner, AWS Solution Provider Partner, AWS Immersion Day Partner, and AWS Public Sector Partner.
We are also an AWS Well-Architected Partner and an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for Microsoft Windows Service Delivery Partner.
Our AWS team has 100+ AWS certifications, including AWS Developer Associate, AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AWS SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Database Specialty, AWS Security Specialty, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, AWS Data Analytics Specialty, and AWS Advanced Networking Specialty certifications.
