AWS Migration Implementation

TierPoint's AWS Migration Implementation service helps organizations migrate virtualized workloads, applications, and infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Whether your goal is to modernize legacy environments, improve scalability, optimize costs, increase resiliency, or accelerate cloud adoption, TierPoint provides the expertise, tools, and proven methodology needed to execute a successful migration with minimal business disruption.

Our AWS-certified cloud experts work alongside your team to plan, execute, validate, and transition workloads to AWS while following AWS industry leading practices for security, governance, operational readiness, and performance.

• Migration planning and execution
• AWS environment and landing zone deployment
• Workload discovery and dependency analysis
• Virtual machine and application migration
• Migration testing and validation
• Cutover planning and execution
• Operational readiness and knowledge transfer
• Migration documentation and recommendations

• Accelerate cloud adoption with expert guidance
• Reduce migration risk and business disruption
• Improve scalability, flexibility, and resiliency
• Align cloud environments with AWS best practices
• Gain operational knowledge for ongoing cloud management
• Establish a foundation for future modernization initiatives

This offering relates to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and may leverage AWS-native services based on customer requirements, including:

• AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN)
• AWS Migration Hub
• Amazon EC2
• Amazon VPC
• AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• AWS Systems Manager
• Amazon CloudWatch
• AWS Backup
• Amazon S3

Additional AWS services may be incorporated based on workload architecture, migration objectives, and business requirements.

1. Solution Requirements Matrix

• Documented solution requirements with traceability to requirement source and status

2. Solution Detailed Design

• Documented design of the target solution, including critical integrations and dependencies
• Key design decisions and rationale with traceability to requirements

3. Solution Deployment Design

• Documented migration and deployment approach
• Rollout schedule, key communications, and support transition plan

4. Solution Test Design and Validation Matrix

• Documented testing strategy aligned to requirements
• Test execution and documented results

5. Solution Implementation

• Implementation aligned to approved scope and design
• Configuration of AWS services based on agreed requirements
• Validation that the implemented solution is functioning as intended

6. Migration and Cutover

• Migration execution
• Production cutover support
• Knowledge transfer

7. Project Management and Engagement Artifacts

• Project Plan
• RACI Matrix
• RAID Log

Week 0 – Engagement Kickoff

• Review goals, scope, resources, and desired outcomes
• Align documentation templates and project plan approach

Week 1 – Requirements and Discovery

• Finalize solution requirements
• Complete remaining discovery activities
• Review and align logical solution design

Week 2 – Detailed Design

• Finalize and baseline the project plan
• Complete documented detailed solution design
• Review key milestones, dates, and dependencies

Week 3 – Deployment Design and Validation

• Complete documented deployment and migration design
• Validate solution and deployment approach through testing activities

Week 4 – Implementation, Migration, and Handoff

• Deploy solution to pilot environment (if applicable)
• Deploy solution to production environment
• Execute migration and cutover activities
• Conduct operational handoff and knowledge transfer
• Review deliverables, outcomes, and next steps

• Reduced migration risk and business disruption
• Faster adoption of AWS services
• Improved scalability and resiliency
• Alignment with AWS best practices
• Operational readiness for ongoing cloud management
• Foundation for future modernization initiatives