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AWS Migration Strategies – The 6 R’s

The 6 R’s

Rehost (“lift and shift”)

Move applications to AWS without changes. In large-scale, legacy migrations,

organizations are looking to move quickly to meet business objectives.

Applications may become easier to re-architect once they are already

running in the cloud. This happens because the hard part, which is migrating

the application, data, and tra c, has already been accomplished.

Replatform (“lift, tinker and shift”)

You are making a few cloud optimizations in order to achieve some tangible

bene t without changing the core architecture of the application.

Replatforming Tools

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1. Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for relational databases –

AWS manages the database application for you, so you can focus on

the application of the database itself

2. AWS Elastic Beanstalk – a fully managed platform where you can

 simply deploy your code, and AWS will handle scaling, load balancing,

monitoring, database and compute provisioning for you

Repurchase (“drop and shop”)

Move from perpetual licenses to a software-as-a-service model. For

workloads that can easily be upgraded to newer versions, this strategy might

allow a feature set upgrade and smoother implementation.

For example, you will discontinue using your local VPN solution and instead

purchase a commercial VPN software from AWS Marketplace such as

OpenVPN for AWS.

Refactor / Re-architect

Re-imagine how the application is architected and developed using cloud-

native features.

Typically, this is driven by a strong business need to add features, scale, or

performance that would otherwise be di cult to achieve in the application’s

existing environment.

This migration strategy is often the most expensive solution.

Retire

Identify IT assets that are no longer useful and can be turned o . This will

help boost your business case and direct your attention towards maintaining

the resources that are widely used.

Retain

Retain portions of your IT portfolio if there are some applications that are

not ready to be migrated and will produce more bene ts when kept on-

premises, or you are not ready to prioritize an application that was recently

upgraded and then make changes to it again.

The following strategies are arranged in increasing order of complexity — this means

that the time and cost required to enact the migration will be proportional to the

increase, but will provide greater opportunity for optimization

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Retire(simples) < Retain < Rehost < Repurchase < Replatform < Re-

architect/Refactor (most complex)

Consider a phased approach to migrating applications, prioritizing business functionality

in the rst phase, rather than attempting to do it all in one step.

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General Migration Tools

AWS Migration Hub – provides a single location to track the progress of

application migrations across multiple AWS and partner solutions. Using Migration

Hub allows you to choose the AWS and partner migration tools that best t your

needs, while providing visibility into the status of migrations across your portfolio

of applications.

AWS Application Discovery Service – collects and presents con guration, usage,

and behavior data from your servers to help you plan your migration.

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) – an agentless service for migrating

thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS.

AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) – helps you migrate databases to AWS.

The source database remains fully operational during the migration.

AWS Snowball – a petabyte-scale data transport solution that uses secure

appliances to transfer large amounts of data into and out of AWS.

AWS Snowmobile – an exabyte-scale data transfer service used to move

extremely large amounts of data to AWS.

AWS Direct Connect – lets you establish a dedicated network connection line

between your network and one of the AWS Direct Connect locations.

Amazon Kinesis Firehose – a fully managed service for loading streaming data

into AWS.

AWS Marketplace – where you can purchase di erent types of softwares and

licenses o ered by AWS Partners and other AWS Users.

Sources:

https://aws.amazon.com/cloud-migration/

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/6-strategies-for-migrating-applications-to-

the-cloud/

https://d1.awsstatic.com/whitepapers/Migration/aws-migration-whitepaper.pdf

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