Assessment Summary

Assessment Overview

This slide summarizes the Cloudamize discovery and assessment project. It outlines the total number of servers assessed and the methodology used for data collection. Key infrastructure details are provided, including a breakdown of Windows and Linux servers. The overview also covers resource metrics, such as storage utilization and the number of applications discovered, highlighting those designated as business applications. This report provides a quick snapshot of the project scope and key findings.

Financial Overview

This section summarizes the cost savings from your cloud migration strategy. It provides a financial overview of how Infrastructure Modernization, Licensing Optimization, and a Savings Plan Commitment can significantly reduce your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). By right-sizing your resources and leveraging cost-effective licensing, this analysis projects your potential savings over a multi-year period, allowing for data-driven decisions on your cloud spend.

Designs:

On-Demand | Shared Tenancy Hardware / Lift & Shift: The cost of a "lift-and-shift" migration, where your on-premise hardware configuration is moved to an equivalent, unoptimized AWS instance on a shared server.

On-Demand | Shared Tenancy | Right-Sized | No Upfront: Pay-as-you-go pricing for right-sized instances, optimized for cost based on actual workload performance, with no long-term commitment.

1-Year RI | Shared Tenancy | Right-Sized | No Upfront: Commits to a right-sized instance for one year, providing significant discounts over on-demand rates without an initial payment.

3-Year RI | Shared Tenancy | Right-Sized | No Upfront: Commits to a right-sized instance for three years, offering the deepest available discounts for stable, long-running workloads.

Potential Savings with Graviton

The Graviton family of ARM64 processors offers a significant opportunity to improve performance and reduce costs on AWS. By rehosting or replatforming your compatible workloads to Graviton instances, you can achieve a better price-performance ratio compared to traditional x86-based instances. This optimization can lead to substantial reductions in your ongoing compute costs without compromising application performance.
This analysis identifies Linux servers that are compatible with Graviton processors, a compatibility that most modern Linux operating systems now support. It then projects the cost savings by comparing your current non-Graviton costs with the projected Graviton costs. The goal is to realize a total estimated annual savings of around 10% by making this switch.

VMware Licensing Analysis, On-Premise Licensing Cost Estimate

This slide estimates your on-premises VMware licensing costs to build a comprehensive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis. The report provides a clear breakdown of estimated costs for different VMware editions over various term lengths, based on your specific environment's hosts and licensed cores.
The analysis then compares this total on-premises TCO (including infrastructure and licensing) with the projected costs of migrating to AWS EC2. It highlights the substantial cost reduction by eliminating VMware licensing fees in the cloud and quantifies the potential savings from moving a specific number of VMs. This provides a clear financial justification for migrating to an optimized cloud environment.

SQL Server Optimization and Core Reduction

This section outlines how Cloudamize helps reduce your SQL Server licensing costs by optimizing core count. By right-sizing your instances and leveraging AWS's "Optimize CPU" feature for Bring-Your-Own-License (BYOL) scenarios, you can free up valuable licenses for use on other servers. This strategy not only generates immediate savings on Software Assurance renewals but also provides a clear financial benefit by reducing the number of licensable cores you need in the cloud. Non-prod machines could use SQL Server Developer Edition, which has no license cost.

Storage Analysis

This section details your storage requirements and projected costs. It compares the Total Disk Capacity with your actual Total Disk Occupancy to provide an initial TCO based on 100% utilization. For further optimization, Cloudamize can also model shared storage solutions like Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, allowing you to customize your TCO with additional storage headroom and leverage fully managed services.

Microsoft EOL (End-of-Life) Analysis

This section identifies all Microsoft operating systems and software in your environment that are nearing or have passed their End-of-Life (EOL) date. Running EOL software exposes your organization to significant security vulnerabilities and a lack of vendor support. This analysis helps you prioritize which workloads require immediate modernization or re-platforming, ensuring you migrate to a secure, compliant, and supported cloud environment. The report provides a clear breakdown of your environment's risk level by specifying the support cycle and end dates for both Windows Server and SQL Server versions. It also helps you identify servers that are unsupported and represent a high risk, allowing you to make data-driven decisions to mitigate these risks as part of your cloud migration strategy.

AWS End-of-Life Migration Program (EMP)

The AWS End-of-Life Migration Program (EMP) is a dedicated service that provides tools, expert guidance, and funding to help you migrate legacy applications and databases to the AWS cloud. By simplifying the process of moving software that is no longer supported by its vendor, the EMP significantly reduces the cost, complexity, and risk of modernizing your critical workloads.

Modernization Options

Amazon RDS as a Migration Option
Migrating to Amazon RDS allows your team to focus on innovation by offloading the time-consuming tasks of database management and administration. With features like automated patching, backups, and high availability, RDS improves both database and infrastructure efficiency while decreasing capital and operational expenses. It provides easy scalability and built-in durability, allowing you to move your databases without complex re-architecting. The pricing shown in this analysis compares the cost of a 1-year EC2 Reserved Instance with RDS Standard On-Demand rates.

Migration & Modernization Journey:
The Cloudamize Migration & Modernization Journey provides a data-driven path from on-premises to the cloud. It begins with Infrastructure Modernization, where you rehost your workloads with confidence and control, using Cloudamize to right-size your infrastructure for immediate cost savings. The journey continues with Application Modernization, where the platform continually provides recommendations to optimize your cloud environment. This includes suggestions for moving COTS software to open-source alternatives, leveraging AWS-optimized and managed services, and adopting cloud-native solutions to further reduce your cost of compute and improve efficiency.

Business Value

Sustainability
Cloudamize helps you understand the environmental impact of your cloud migration by estimating your current on-premises carbon footprint based on key metrics like CPU utilization, disk capacity, and uptime. It then calculates the reduced carbon footprint associated with your modernized plan in AWS, providing a clear comparison. You can download a full sustainability report from the Cloudamize console to help inform your green initiatives and explore potential carbon reduction incentives.

Zombie Server Analysis

This section identifies "zombie servers," which are machines that are powered on but have had less than 20% resource utilization throughout the assessment period. These servers represent an unnecessary cost, and we recommend investigating their purpose to confirm they are truly unused. You can use the Cloudamize Plan component to review all application dependencies and confirm if a server is safe to decommission, or you can remove them from the assessment scope to get a more accurate TCO.

Cloudamize Platform Overview

Discover:
Cloudamize uses three standard data collection methods (agent, agentless, and hypervisor-level) to gather in-depth insights into your on-premises environment. It also offers advanced telemetry for specific technologies, such as SQL and NetApp, to provide a detailed view of your infrastructure, performance, and application dependencies. More details are available in our KB here.

Analyze:
This component allows you to explore multiple Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) plans, including customized scenarios. It helps you understand the financial impact of your migration and can show how to reduce your "lift-and-shift" costs by over 50% by leveraging data-driven right-sizing recommendations. More details are available in our KB here.

Plan
The Plan module helps you intelligently prepare for migration. It automatically maps all application and server dependencies, enabling you to group workloads logically by application, migration wave, or the "7 R's" (Rehost, Replatform, etc.). This ensures a smooth and low-risk migration. More details are available in our KB here.

Migrate:
This is where planning becomes execution. The Migrate module streamlines the process by helping you connect to the cloud, replicate servers, and apply the right-sizing recommendations you defined during the analysis phase, all from within the Cloudamize console. More details are available in our KB here.

Manage:
The Manage component provides tools to orchestrate and track your entire migration project. It allows you to create Runbooks to organize and coordinate all of your team's assessment, planning, and migration activities, ensuring a structured and controlled process. More details are available in our KB here.

Modernize:
Cloudamize's journey doesn't end with migration. The Modernize component offers continuous, real-time in-cloud recommendations to optimize your cloud environment as you grow. These recommendations can help you further reduce costs and improve performance by suggesting new services or better configurations. More details are available in our KB here.