AWS Cloud Services

Strategy And Assessment: Building The Blueprint for Success Understanding that every cloud journey is unique, CGI's crucial Strategy and Assessment phase begins by deeply engaging with your stakeholders to fully understand your business goals, priorities, challenges, and opportunities. This insight directly informs the development of a robust cloud strategy or a critical evaluation of your existing one, ensuring alignment with your distinct needs. We then leverage our expertise and hyperscale migration toolsets to thoroughly analyze your infrastructure, applications, data, and skills to uncover risks, map dependencies, and identify value opportunities.

Vision and Strategy: Defining Your Cloud Journey A successful cloud migration begins with a clear vision and strategy where business outcomes and objectives are identified, ensuring that every step of your cloud journey is aligned with your overarching goals. Our collaborative approach secures executive sponsorship for unwavering support, establishes clear mandates and accountability for effective execution, and builds a compelling business case justifying investment and outlining benefits. We also establish essential partnership agreements to support the migration efforts.

Assess: Paving the Way for Cloud Success Our comprehensive cloud migration Assessment meticulously evaluates your organization's readiness for cloud adoption across multiple critical dimensions. This includes determining the optimal and seamless integration of ITIL and Service Management frameworks within a cloud environment, alongside a thorough analysis of your specific security requirements and the maturity of your DevOps practices. We also assess your current Agile capabilities and how they can be leveraged in the cloud. Furthermore, our evaluation encompasses a detailed review of your application portfolio and its infrastructure dependencies, leveraging cloud provider assessment tools where applicable. A key part of our analysis involves evaluating your team's current cloud skills and determining any required cloud training initiatives. The outcome of this assessment is a detailed report outlining key findings, including a clear understanding of your migration and overall cloud readiness, a complete inventory of your applications and infrastructure, identified cloud training needs, cultural challenges, and a strategic roadmap for your cloud transformation.

Migration Execution: Efficient and Seamless Transition For each application and server, we clearly define where it's going in the cloud and create a detailed cutover plan to keep downtime minimal.Our deployment workflows use automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD pipelines with real-time monitoring to proactively resolve issues and optimize the migration. We transform and switch over applications to cloud as per the identified migration strategy for each application, ensuring your business services continue without interruption. Integrated into our migration approach are Cloud Cost Management and FinOps disciplines, with our teams actively managing and optimizing cloud spending as part of the transition. We leverage hyperscaler migration tools, including AWS Migration Hub and AWS Transform, alongside CGI frameworks and processes to ensure a smooth cloud transition.

Manage and Modernize: Redefining Operational Excellence Run and Operate: Ensuring Operational Continuity Smooth transition to ongoing cloud management is a core part of CGI's migration service. We provide ongoing cloud management through our Cloud Managed Services. These services address a major hurdle in large-scale cloud migrations by offering certified and experienced resources to run and operate your cloud, including critical 'Day 2 Operations'. Our experts strengthen your DevSecOps and cloud operations teams, accelerating digital delivery. As your cloud maturity grows, we help you reinterpret ITIL implementation, evolving from Change Management to Release Management. Furthermore, we ensure effective governance of your automation systems, bridging legacy and modern processes across multi and hybrid cloud environments, giving you greater control over your private data and compliance."

Optimize: Accelerating Digital Transformation Modernize operations by scaling and improving cloud capabilities, enhancing quality, and optimizing resource costs. Harness data and apply machine learning to prevent and resolve IT issues faster. Our expertise in cloud-native capabilities drives innovation, reducing time to market and scaling digital initiatives. Additionally, we harness data and apply machine learning to prevent and resolve IT issues faster, ensuring your organization remains agile and responsive to evolving business needs. By leveraging CGI's expertise, your organization can achieve operational excellence, optimize costs, and ensure a seamless cloud migration and ongoing management.