Proven Business Value with Windows on AWS
According to the white paper, “The Business Value of Efficiently Running High-Performing Windows Workloads in the AWS Cloud”, IDC’s analysis projected a 442% five-year ROI with Windows on AWS. IDC’s study was able to demonstrate both quantitative and qualitative benefits, unpinning the real business value of migrating Windows workloads to AWS Cloud:
- Improved reliability: 98% reduction in unplanned downtime and 26% increase in developer productivity, resulting in 71% faster deployment.
- Higher performance: AWS provides 77 Availability Zones across 24 regions, with 99.99% availability for each Amazon EC2 region. This delivers twice the performance of the next major cloud provider.
- Reduced Costs and Lower TCO: AWS delivers 62% cost reduction for SQL Server workload, compared to the next major cloud provider. Five-year TCO can be reduced by 56%, with a 37% reduction in infrastructure costs.
- Superior security: AWS now offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services, five times the number available than the next major cloud provider. Identities and permissions can be managed at scale, for secure internal and external information access.
- Broadest capabilities: with more than 350 Amazon EC2 instances, that are not available from other cloud providers, customers achieve three times the throughput and 25% lower latency for consistent network performance.
The SourceFuse Approach
SourceFuse delivers a unique combination of competencies, skills, and expertise, to deliver a migration led strategy when modernizing Workloads on AWS. As an AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency Partner, our approach has always been a tried and tested phased approach, in full collaboration with our customers’ stakeholders:
- Discovery Phase: this initial phase focuses on fully understanding the business needs and current infrastructure of an organization. SourceFuse carries out rapid Proof of Concept (PoC) discovery before presenting the potential deliverables.
- Findings: after PoC discovery, the findings are presented to the customer, outlining the solution approach, for example, cloud infrastructure modernization or application modernization, etc. To help manage implementation expectations, the suggested approach includes deliverables, such as:
- Implementation timeline
- Estimated project costs
- Performance efficiency strategy
- (no obligation for customer to use SF to implement, fully funded by AWS)
- Validation Phase: this phase brings discovery to a close before implementation can begin. During this phase, AWS validates the entire project, which gives the customer confidence in proceeding to implementation. The comprehensive report of discovery, findings, and validation ensures there are no surprises during project execution.
SourceFuse approaches and provides unrivalled consultation services, and after completing the validation, a customer is not locked-in or obligated to proceed with the migration.
SourceFuse’s status as an AWS Consulting Partner means AWS will fund the 360-review of your environment with AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA), to evaluate cloud migration options or optimize cost savings with flexible licensing costs. Real examples of how SourceFuse has achieved migrating Windows on AWS include:
- MTS Inc. – learn how a colocated data center was successfully migrated to AWS Cloud and modernized within AWS High Availability Zones leveraging AWS Auto Scaling, delivering optimized data workflows, with increased regulatory compliance. The Microsoft Workloads modernization delivered a 40% TCO reduction while ensuring a zero-downtime deployment policy.
- RateGain – learn how a TravelTech’s Microsoft Workloads were migrated from .NET Framework to .NET Core enabling applications to run on Linux Infrastructure resolving Windows licensing concerns. Containerization methodology was implemented to increase scalability and Windows licensing cost realized.
- Firehouse Subs – learn how one of the world’s biggest restaurant chains achieve end-to-end performance optimization and scalability, migrating its legacy web-based platform to AWS Cloud using Infrastructure as a Code Deployment by leveraging CI/CD pipelines.
