AWS · Migration & Modernization

Move to AWS, then make it better.

We migrate on-premises, VMware and legacy database workloads to Amazon Web Services in tested waves. Then we modernize what's worth modernizing, onto containers, serverless and managed databases, so the move pays for itself.

AWS Partner — Advanced Tier ServicesAWS Advanced Tier Services PartnerAWS-certified migration engineers
The challenge

Why migrations stall.

Most teams know they should be on AWS. What stops them is risk, not intent.

Hardware and licence renewals

Data-centre contracts, VMware licensing and commercial database costs keep rising, and each renewal locks you in for another term.

Fear of downtime

Revenue-critical systems can't go dark for a weekend, and nobody has a rehearsed plan for rolling back a cutover.

Lift-and-shift regret

Workloads moved as-is keep the same bottlenecks and costs, and miss out on what managed AWS services offer.

What we deliver on AWS

Assessment to cutover, one team.

We choose rehost, replatform or refactor for each workload based on cost, risk and business value. Not everything needs to be rewritten.

Migration assessment & business case

Discovery of servers, dependencies and databases, a 7 Rs decision for each workload, a TCO comparison and a wave plan, backed by an AWS Well-Architected review.

AWS Migration HubAWS Pricing Calculator

Landing zone & foundations

A multi-account AWS environment with guardrails, identity, networking and logging, defined in code before the first workload arrives.

AWS Control TowerAWS OrganizationsAWS IAM Identity Center
Infrastructure as Code →

Server & VMware migration

Rehost and replatform with block-level replication and rehearsed cutovers, moving VMware and physical servers to Amazon EC2 with minimal downtime.

AWS Application Migration ServiceAmazon EC2

Database migration & modernization

Oracle and SQL Server to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, and self-managed engines to Amazon RDS, with continuous replication and validated zero-downtime cutovers.

AWS DMSAWS Schema Conversion ToolAmazon Aurora
Database migration →

Application modernization

Monoliths decomposed onto containers and event-driven serverless, where the change reduces cost or speeds up delivery.

Amazon EKSAmazon ECSAWS FargateAWS Lambda

Data platform modernization

Overloaded warehouses and databases re-architected into lakehouses and streaming pipelines, paying only for the compute each job uses.

Amazon EMRAmazon S3Amazon Data Firehose
Data & Analytics on AWS →
AWS services leveraged

What we use, and why.

AWS Application Migration Service

Continuous block-level replication lets us test a server on AWS before cutover, keeping the cutover window short and reversible.

AWS Database Migration Service (AWS DMS)

Full load plus change data capture keeps source and target in sync until we switch, so a database migration needs no downtime window.

AWS Schema Conversion Tool

Converts Oracle and SQL Server schemas and code to PostgreSQL and flags what needs manual rework, early in the plan.

Amazon Aurora & Amazon RDS

Managed engines with Multi-AZ failover and automated backups that remove commercial licence costs and patching work.

Amazon EC2

The right landing spot for rehosted workloads, right-sized from real utilization data rather than on-prem allocations.

Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS & AWS Fargate

Managed container platforms for modernized services, with no control plane or hosts for your team to run.

AWS Lambda

Event-driven compute for integrations and batch jobs that don't justify an always-on server.

AWS Control Tower & AWS Organizations

A governed multi-account landing zone, so security and billing boundaries exist before the first workload moves.

Our approach

Waves, rehearsals, then cutover.

We migrate in small waves grouped by dependency. Each wave is replicated, tested on AWS and rehearsed before the real cutover, with a rollback path ready at every step.

  • Assess → Mobilize → Migrate & Modernize, aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework
  • Continuous replication, so cutovers take minutes rather than weekends
  • Post-migration right-sizing and hand-over runbooks for your team
migration — wave 3
$ devotica migrate status --wave 3
app-servers (mgn) replicated · test passed
orders-db (dms cdc) in sync · lag 0.4s
target aurora-postgresql · multi-az
rollback plan rehearsed
$ devotica migrate cutover --wave 3
# cutover complete · 6 min · 0 errors
Customer success

Modernizations we've delivered on AWS.

120+
Workloads migrated to cloud
0
Downtime at lakehouse cutover
75–85%
Compute cost cut after modernization
24/7
Support through and after cutover
Migration assessment

Find out what moving to AWS really takes.

We'll map your workloads, pick a strategy for each and give you a wave plan with a TCO on AWS, before you commit to anything.

Request your assessment →