What is Migration Evaluator?
Migration Evaluator builds a data-driven business case for a migration to AWS. Instead of estimating the economics of a migration, you first discover the existing environment and derive a defensible assessment from it.
Discovery is agentless through a collector, or through a secure upload of existing inventory exports. AWS states the result is a snapshot of your current on-premises footprint that lets you fine-tune licensing, view server dependencies and compare multiple migration scenarios.
Core capabilities
- Agentless Collector: Broad discovery of the existing environment without installing agents
- Inventory upload: Alternative data collection from existing inventory exports
- Dependency analysis: Visibility into server dependencies
- Licence comparison: Bring Your Own License versus License Included options
- Scenario comparison: Evaluation of multiple migration scenarios
- Business case: A data-driven basis for migration decisions
Typical use cases
Preparing a decision paper: IT leaders back the cost and benefit of a migration with collected data rather than assumptions.
Clarifying licence strategy: Comparing BYOL and License Included options shows how existing licences can continue to be used.
Spotting over-provisioning: Discovery reveals which systems in the estate are sized considerably larger than required.
Building a migration roadmap: The assessment informs the sequence and scope of migration waves.
Benefits
- Business case creation at no charge
- Agentless discovery without intervening in production systems
- Comparison of several migration and licensing scenarios
- A solid data basis instead of estimates
Integration with innFactory
As an AWS Reseller, innFactory supports you with Migration Evaluator: preparing and running the discovery, interpreting the results, deriving migration waves, and aligning the licence strategy.
Typical Use Cases
Technical Specifications
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Migration Evaluator?
Migration Evaluator builds a data-driven business case for AWS. The service discovers your existing environment and produces an assessment you can use to plan and justify a migration.
How is the data collected?
Discovery runs through an agentless collector or through a secure upload of existing inventory exports. AWS states you receive a snapshot of your current on-premises footprint.
How much does Migration Evaluator cost?
AWS describes Migration Evaluator as a complimentary service to create data-driven assessments and business cases for AWS cloud planning and migration. Charges arise only for the AWS resources you later actually use.
What analysis does the service deliver?
The service shows server dependencies, allows licensing to be fine-tuned and compares multiple migration scenarios. That includes a cost comparison between Bring Your Own License and License Included options.
At what project stage is it useful?
AWS describes advancing migration planning from any stage: building an AWS roadmap, estimating cloud costs and producing a migration readiness plan.
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