January 10, 2024 | By Zoey Zelmore
As many companies begin to explore the vast capabilities of the public cloud ecosystem, one obstacle continues to be of extreme importance: Cost Optimization. The cloud itself was built for scalability and convenience, but when the most advanced options for your infrastructure can be set up with the touch of a button, a cost friendly migration and ongoing strategy to keep your cloud footprint within budget are key. Today, we will cover an array of fully funded assessments, migration tools and AWS funding programs, along with options for creating your perfect plan to cloud.
Fully Funded Assessments
As you embark on your AWS journey, the initial step involves understanding and aligning with your organization’s current status. With a focus on the AWS Well Architected Framework, your dedicated Opti9 team will walk you through a fully funded AWS Migration Assessment or a Well Architected Review to determine your best path to into AWS and to cost optimization.
Available to both new and existing cloud customers, these assessments identify:
- Actual resource use
- Third-party licensing
- Application dependencies
The results will provide a clear path forward and into the cloud, along with areas to pinpoint for cost optimization and right sizing resources and tools to ensure your cloud experience is tailored specifically to your organization’s needs and budget.
Another assessment focused on cost reduction is the AWS Optimization and licensing Assessment . Third party licensing is often an overlooked aspect of cloud optimization, and the OLA shows the cost of migrating specific licensing to the cloud through AWS’s flexible options such as Bring Your Own Licenses, and Licensing Included.
Common overlooked workloads include:
- Microsoft
- Oracle
- VMware
- SAP
When migrated, price to performance ratios are improved drastically, and customers see improvements in both migration speeds and cost. Check out this video to learn more about the benefits of an OLA assessment.
Migration Tools and AWS Funding Programs
With a clearly defined road map for your journey to AWS, the AWS Application Migration Service (also known as MGN) and AWS Funding Programs are the next key to minimizing the cost of your total migration. MGN can fully automate migration to AWS with or without making changes to applications and workflows, including:
- Applications
- Databases
- X86 Operating Systems
- Source Infrastructure
MGN is completed through utilizing either an installed agent or agentless tool to replicate block level data, allowing the end user to test, and when ready, cut over to EC2 instances.
The AWS Windows Migration Accelerator provides AWS credits based on the following guidelines:
Along with these accelerators, the MGN tool is free to utilize for 90 days (about 3 months), allowing organizations to offset the costs and labor of lifting and shifting applications and workflows.
Another fantastic way to explore cost optimization and reduction within your migration is through AWS Funding Programs. When working through a migration to AWS with Opti9, funding programs are explored based on:
- Spend commitments
- Availability Needs
- Cost Flexibility
- Workloads
- Applications
To discuss funding options with Opti9 and AWS, reach out to your dedicated team lead, or connect with us on our webpage here to schedule an initial consultation around your AWS goals.
Cloud Monitoring and Managed Cloud with Opti9
As a highly awarded AWS partner, Opti9 can not only guide you through AWS assessments and securing funding, but provide continued cloud guidance and expertise on demand. Our team of cloud architects and engineers are prepared to provide round the clock support, and ensure your AWS environment is specifically tailored to your business needs while ensuring cost is right sized. Below, you can find a quick chart highlighting the offerings that both the AWS Dashboard and Managed Cloud with Opti9 Provide:
As your organization grows within the cloud, our team of engineers will continue to architect or re-architect the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure possible. This service, much like the cloud itself, is based off the size of your environment, and provides a solution to cloud management that is both time and cost efficient, allowing your team to focus on revenue generating tasks in place of day-to-day cloud management.
Achieve AWS Efficiency and Savings
While any stage of the cloud journey can be daunting, minimizing and managing costs throughout the process does not have to be. With AWS and Opti9 together, your organization will be supported at every stage. From determining cloud readiness, securing funding, to ongoing infrastructure and cost management, Opti9 brings a comprehensive approach to the existing AWS Framework and ensures that your cloud experience is as streamlined and cost efficient as possible.
