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Resilience in the Cloud with AWS
In today's rapidly changing economic landscape, resilience is more crucial than ever. AWS's robust resiliency and migration solutions empower businesses to thrive amidst uncertainty and ensures applications can withstand and recover from disruptions through high availability, disaster recovery, and comprehensive monitoring tools.
The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) facilitates a seamless transition to the cloud, enhancing scalability, reducing costs, and fostering innovation. By migrating to AWS, organisations can adapt swiftly to market changes, optimise operations, and drive forward the future of their industries.
The launch of the new AWS Auckland region data centre will offer significant benefits, including local data residency, improved latency, and enhanced reliability through multiple availability zones. This new region strengthens New Zealand's digital infrastructure, making it a valuable asset for businesses seeking robust and compliant cloud solutions.
Innovate faster, migrate smarter with AWS-funded services.
Westcon, an AWS distributor with AWS Migration Competency, offers AWS-funded services through our extensive reseller partner network. This allows organisations to obtain AWS services from their preferred reseller, regardless of their current AWS capabilities.
To support organisations in their cloud journey, AWS offers funded services through its AWS Migration Competency partners to help reduce the costs associated with creating a business case, develop a migration plan, and cover professional services needed for the migration.
These services leverage the AWS Optimisation and Licensing Assessment (OLA) program and the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).
AWS Optimisation Licensing Assessment (OLA)
Optimise software licensing and reduce cloud application costs by evaluating current licensing and usage, offering insights into savings and compliance improvements.
Building a business case for change
1. Plan
• Asset discovery
• Visibility to performance
• Contract review
2. Visibility
- Data-based objective assessment
- Leverage existing licensing agreement on AWS
- Exit plan from legacy technology and licensing
- Fact-based decision making
3. Seamless migration
- Custom road map to cloud
- Lower migration and cloud costs
- Faster migration to the cloud
- Modernisation vision
4. Workloads available under OLA
- Microsoft
- Storage
- VMware
- Cloud2Cloud
- RDS
- Oracle
More workloads coming
AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP)
Speed up cloud migration with best practices, expert guidance, and resources. MAP provides a comprehensive framework for evaluating and migrating on-premises workloads to the AWS Cloud.
Key components of MAP
1. Assess – create a case for change
- Rapid discovery
- TCO report
- Migration readiness assessment
- Briefings and workshops
- Immersion Day
3. Migrate and Modernise
• Migration
• Operate and optimise
• Modernise
2. Mobilise – build readiness through experience
- Portfolio: Discovery and planning, migration plan, business case / migration evaluator
- Migration plan: Leverage migration and modernisation experience
- People: Skills and center of resilience fact-based decision making
- Platform: Landing zone, operating model, security and compliance
3. Migrate and Modernise
• Migration
• Operate and optimise
• Modernise
Migrate to AWS with support from Westcon’s partner network.
Westcon can collaborate with AWS and your reseller partner of choice to apply for OLA and MAP funding, and help deliver the services needed.
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