Lift-and-Shift Application Workloads

Accelerate your AWS migration by starting with lift-and-shift of your business-critical applications

Most organizations have on-premises applications burdened with high capital expenses, complex management, scalability challenges, and hardware that needs to be replaced every 3-5 years. Maintaining existing on-premises infrastructure results in increased operational burden and drains IT budgets for organizations that are already budget and resource strapped. With these on-premises challenges, enterprise IT organizations want to move to the cloud and away from the traditional, costly lifecycle of buying, managing and replacing on-premises hardware, software, services, and networking.

Most migrations happen in phases to minimize risk and speed up time to production. The most common approach is to lift-and-shift (also known as "rehost") an application and its data with as few changes as possible. This enables the fastest time to production. Once on AWS, it is easier to modernize and rearchitect application elements, leveraging cloud services and optimizations that provide the most significant benefits.

AWS offers fast, reliable, and seamless lift-and-shift migration by providing automated tools such as AWS Application Migration Service

Migrate workloads using AWS Application Migration Service

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Save Time

Save Time

Improve time to production by quickly and easily lifting and shifting your workloads with no changes to your applications or workflows.

Save Time

Reduce Costs

Pay only for what you use with no hardware or licensing, saving substantial costs while benefiting from the scale, performance, and security of the cloud.

Save Time

Modernize Effectively

Once your applications and data are on AWS, leverage AWS services and capabilities to more easily and effectively replatform, repurchase, or refactor.

Use Cases

Web Serving & Content Management

Web Serving & Content Management

.NET Applications

.NET Applications

Home directories

Home directories

Media workflows

Media workflows

Databases

Databases

Enterprise Resource Planning

Enterprise Resource Planning

Migrate Your First Application to AWS

Download the Self-Serve Migration Starter to learn how automation and self-service can accelerate your cloud journey. This step-by-step guide enables you to quickly and safely lift and shift your first application to AWS with AWS Application Migration Service (CloudEndure Migration) and AWS Control Tower. You will build your AWS skills, validate infrastructure and operational benefits of rehosting in the cloud, and prepare for testing and cutover of your own application.

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