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AWS Migration Acceleration Program

Accelerate your cloud migration and modernization journey with an outcome-driven methodology

Overview

The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a comprehensive and proven cloud migration program based on thousands of enterprise customer migrations to the cloud. Enterprise migrations can be complex, but MAP helps you accelerate your cloud migration and modernization journey with an outcome-driven methodology.

MAP provides the tools, training, expertise from AWS Migration Competency Partners, and financial investments you need to succeed. The three-phased framework - Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate & Modernize guides you through each stage. Through MAP, you can build strong cloud foundations, accelerate and reduce risk, and offset initial migration costs while leveraging the performance, security, and reliability of the cloud.

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Benefits

    Move infrastructure and applications to the cloud to decrease IT costs and free up resources for strategic work. Customers migrating legacy applications to AWS achieve an average of 31% infrastructure savings.

    Shift your team from tactical to strategic work by reducing time spent on system administration. Customers who migrate to AWS run IT infrastructure management 62% more efficiently.

    Strengthen IT security and increase service availability with the ability to respond to changing demand. Customers moving to AWS from on-premises see a 69% reduction in unplanned downtime.

    Accelerate innovation at scale by retiring technical debt and reducing deployment timelines to complete projects faster.

How it works - Assess, Mobilize, Migrate & Modernize

Assess your readiness

Identify capability gaps across six dimensions of the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework—business, process, people, platform, operations, and security. You'll understand what you need to succeed and build a realistic TCO model for your migration.

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Mobilize your resources

Close the gaps identified in the assessment phase and build your operational foundation. You'll get clear guidance on migration strategies, accelerate your decision-making, and set yourself up for success.

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Migrate & Modernize your workloads

Use AWS migration services to execute your migration plan, with human expertise from AWS Professional Services and AWS Migration Competency Partners guiding the way.

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Supported workloads

MAP for Microsoft workloads

Migrate your Windows workloads to AWS using proven patterns - lift and shift to Amazon EC2 or modernize to open source OS and databases. Reduce licensing costs and complexity while gaining cloud flexibility.

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MAP for VMware workloads

Migrate your VMware workloads from on premises or other cloud providers to AWS services. Whether you're moving directly from on prem or transitioning from VMware Cloud on AWS, we'll help you optimize costs and modernize your infrastructure.

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MAP for SAP

If you are developing your SAP RISE migration strategy, use MAP to realize the benefits of AWS cloud infrastructure and modernization capabilities as part of your phased approach.

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MAP for mainframe

Plan, fund, and execute mainframe modernization at scale with MAP. The three-phase approach—assess, mobilize, modernize—combines methodology guidance, investment incentives, and access to a global network of mainframe modernization partners.

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