Move with a clear plan
Assess workloads, dependencies, risks, priorities, and migration waves before production movement begins.
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A practical AWS migration path for regulated SMB teams, landing in secure, recoverable, observable, managed operations.
Built for FinTech and HealthTech teams where migration, security, recovery, and operational ownership need to move together.
The goal is not only to move workloads. The goal is to move them into an AWS foundation your team can secure, monitor, recover, explain, and improve.
Assess workloads, dependencies, risks, priorities, and migration waves before production movement begins.
Prepare account structure, access, networking, monitoring, security, and recovery patterns before workloads depend on them.
Create controlled migration, validation, rollback, and handover steps so teams know what happens before, during, and after cutover.
Stabilise workloads after movement and connect them to the managed operating model the business needs next.
Different SMB teams arrive at AWS from different starting points. The migration path should match the source environment, workload risk, and operating model the business needs after cutover.
Move workloads from physical servers, virtual machines, private hosting, or legacy infrastructure into AWS.
Move workloads from another cloud provider into AWS where the business needs stronger AWS alignment, governance, or operating control.
Bring fragmented AWS accounts, workloads, or environments into a clearer account structure and operating model.
Move selected applications into more suitable AWS runtime patterns, including containers, managed databases, or event-driven components where appropriate.
Move or modernise data layers into AWS-managed database patterns with recovery, monitoring, and operational visibility considered from the start.
Move workloads from third-party hosting, VPS, managed hosting, or colocation environments into AWS.
SMB teams often plan cloud migration around workload movement, but the real pressure appears after cutover: ownership, monitoring, access, recovery, cost, evidence, and support.
Applications can land in AWS before the operating model is ready to support them.
Accounts, access, networking, monitoring, backup, and security baselines may not be consistent before migration starts.
Teams need migration steps, validation, fallback thinking, and communication that reduce uncertainty during the move.
After migration, teams still need clear ownership, reporting, optimisation, and support so AWS does not become unmanaged complexity.
We shape migration around the operating model from the start: readiness, foundations, workload movement, validation, stabilisation, and ongoing platform ownership.
Review workloads, dependencies, environments, risks, operational gaps, recovery needs, and migration constraints.
Set up the AWS baseline needed for access, accounts, networking, monitoring, backup, security, and cost visibility.
Group workloads into practical migration steps based on risk, dependency, business priority, and operational readiness.
Use AWS migration patterns and controlled execution to move applications, databases, and supporting services into the target environment.
Confirm workloads behave as expected, monitoring is active, recovery posture is understood, and operational issues are addressed.
Connect migrated workloads to managed support, reporting, optimisation, recovery routines, and ongoing platform improvement.
Expand each block to review implementation scope, fit signals, migration outcomes, standalone or managed platform paths, and the staged delivery approach.
The implementation is scoped around the migration outcome your business needs next, not around unnecessary transformation complexity.
Review workloads, dependencies, risks, constraints, current infrastructure, target AWS posture, and operating gaps.
Establish the account, access, networking, logging, monitoring, security, backup, and cost foundations needed for migration.
Define migration waves, application priorities, dependency groups, cutover steps, validation checks, and rollback considerations.
Move selected workloads into AWS using migration patterns suited to the application, risk profile, and operating needs.
Support database movement, validation, and stabilisation where application data needs to move with confidence.
Review workload behaviour, monitoring, backup, access, cost, and operational readiness after migration.
If several of the signals below reflect your operating reality, an AWS migration conversation may be a practical next step.
The business wants a practical migration path without creating unmanaged AWS complexity.
Legacy infrastructure, fragmented hosting, or operational overhead is starting to slow delivery.
Migration needs to land with access control, backup posture, monitoring, and evidence from the start.
The goal is not only to cut over workloads. The goal is to run them with ownership, rhythm, and control.
These outcomes are what the programme is designed to deliver: a practical migration path, landing zone foundations, validated workload movement, and a clear route into managed operations.
A practical AWS migration path shaped around business pressure, dependencies, and cutover risk.
Landing zone foundations that support secure and recoverable operations from the first wave.
Workload movement with validation, cutover awareness, and stabilisation before you declare done.
A clear path from migration into managed AWS operations when ongoing rhythm and ownership matter.
AWS SMB Migration and Modernisation can solve a specific migration trigger on its own, or become the entry path into the AWS Managed Platform when workloads need to land directly in a managed operating model.
Use this when the immediate trigger is workload migration, infrastructure exit, cloud consolidation, or modernisation planning.
Use this when migrated workloads need to move directly into monitoring, support, recovery routines, access governance, and reporting.
Explore AWS Managed PlatformMigration should land with backup coverage, restore awareness, and recovery evidence where business continuity matters.
Explore Data Protection and RecoveryMigration should land with clearer access control, identity governance, segmentation, and security evidence from the start.
Explore Zero Trust SecurityThe work is practical, staged, and focused on moving workloads into a foundation your team can operate, explain, and trust.
We start with the business moment: infrastructure exit, workload movement, cloud consolidation, modernisation planning, or operational risk.
We review workloads, dependencies, risks, constraints, environments, recovery needs, and the AWS foundation required.
We define the landing zone, access, networking, monitoring, security, backup, and cost visibility patterns needed before movement.
We group workloads, define cutover steps, move systems, validate behaviour, and manage migration issues as they appear.
Migrated workloads move into monitoring, support, reporting, optimisation, recovery routines, and ongoing AWS platform operations.
The value is not just enabling AWS migration tools. The value is shaping them into a migration path your team can execute, validate, and operate after cutover.
Support server and application migration patterns where workloads need to move into AWS with controlled execution.
Support database movement, replication, and migration validation where application data needs to move with confidence.
Support migration tracking and visibility where multiple workloads, steps, or migration waves are in scope.
Support discovery of servers, dependencies, and current-state information for migration planning.
Support standardised landing zone foundations where account governance needs to be established early.
Support account structure, governance, separation, and policy boundaries across AWS environments.
Support workforce access patterns and clearer identity governance for the target AWS environment.
Support networking foundations, segmentation, routing, and connectivity patterns for migrated workloads.
Support connectivity patterns where migration depends on private or hybrid network paths.
Support monitoring, logs, metrics, and operational visibility for migrated workloads.
Support backup and recovery posture for workloads that need protection after migration.
Support security visibility and threat detection signals across the migrated AWS environment.
Support configuration visibility and activity records that help teams review change, access, and governance.
Support cost visibility so migrated workloads can be reviewed and optimised after movement.
Tell us where migration pressure is showing up: infrastructure exit, workload movement, cloud consolidation, security baseline, recovery posture, or operational ownership. We will help you shape the AWS migration path around what matters next.