LIFT Workshop: Accelerate Your AWS Migration with Confidence

Armakuni, as an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with AWS Migration and Modernization Competency, helps organizations solve challenges of cloud transformation and digital modernization. Our LIFT framework (Long-Term Value, Integration, Flexibility, Technical Feasibility) provides a strategic approach to simplify cloud migration decision-making. This 4.5-hour workshop helps leaders prioritize workloads, select AWS migration strategies (7Rs), and identify funding opportunities. Whether modernizing legacy systems or adopting AI-driven architectures, we help you define clear migration objectives aligned with AWS best practices.

Armakuni’s LIFT Migration Strategy Workshop provides a structured framework to evaluate your cloud migration readiness and establish a clear AWS adoption roadmap.

Long-Term Value & ROI (L): How do people, maintenance, and scaling costs affect long-term cloud benefits? Have innovation opportunity costs been considered, and how can AWS enhance scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency? We help align cloud migration with business strategy with AWS cost optimization tools like Compute Savings Plans, Spot Instances, S3 Intelligent-Tiering, and AWS Trusted Advisor.

Integration & Impact (I): What system dependencies and integration challenges exist when transitioning to AWS? Have potential risks to business continuity, operations, and customer experience been identified? We streamline migration with AWS Migration Hub and Application Discovery Service for workload tracking, AWS License Manager for cloud license management, and AWS Direct Connect and VPC Peering for secure hybrid-cloud networking.

Flexibility & Future Growth (F): How do serverless computing (Lambda), containerization (ECS/EKS), and AI/ML adoption (SageMaker, Bedrock) contribute to scalability and agility? Is cloud migration aligned with market trends and future regulatory requirements? Armakuni ensures business value visibility by utilizing AWS analytics and monitoring tools, helping organizations migrate to accelerate benefits and modernize to amplify value.

Technical Feasibility & Security (T): Has workload suitability for migration and modernization been assessed using AWS Well-Architected Framework reviews? What security measures, such as AWS Security Hub, IAM, KMS encryption, and GuardDuty, can enhance protection? We implement strategies for availability and disaster recovery, including multi-region deployments, auto-scaling, AWS Backup, and compliance-driven cost efficiency.

Our approach ensures continuous modernization, utilizing tools such as the Well-Architected Framework for architecture reviews, Migration Hub for tracking progress, AWS Migration Evaluator for cost analysis, and AWS Cloud Financial Management suite for budgeting and cost optimization.

This interactive session concists of:

Introduction & workshop objectives (15 min): Overview of the AWS migration landscape Key business considerations for migration

Business drivers for AWS migration (30 min) Explore the motivations for migrating to AWS, including cost savings, innovation, and agility Discussion of industry trends and migration success stories

Understanding AWS migration pathways (45 min) Detailed introduction to the 7Rs of cloud migration (Rehost, Replatform, Repurchase, Refactor, Rebuild, Retain, Retire) Interactive segment to align migration strategies with business goals and perform a cost-benefit analysis

AWS migration framework: Business & technical alignment (45 min) Insights into the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) and funding opportunities, including TCO analysis Overview of AWS Well-Architected Framework principles for successful migration

Roadmap to AWS migration (45 min) Development of a personalized migration roadmap encompassing discovery, planning, execution, and optimization phases, including a Proof of Concept (PoC)

Addressing security, compliance, & governance (30 min) Ensuring compliance with industry regulations such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, GDPR, and other relevant standards Discussing security frameworks, including Identity and Access Management (IAM) and best practices

Migration readiness & strategy (45 min) Assessment of your organization’s readiness for migration using the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) Interactive exercises to identify key roles and responsibilities for a successful migration Utilizing Cloud Center of Excellence to drive transformation

Next steps & wrap-up (15 min) Actionable takeaways to enhance your migration strategy, including support options and future resources