Managed Services
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Your licensing bill just became an architecture decision.
VMware renewal quotes have gone up several times over. Windows Server and SQL Server licences are the fastest-growing line in a lot of infrastructure budgets. Both of those are now a reason to move, and AWS funds a share of the move.
- Duration
- Scoped on the estate
- Format
- Inventory, model, migrate, prove the saving
- Price basis
- Scoped and quoted before signature; assessment free
The situation
Nobody modernises because it is elegant. They modernise because a renewal landed with a number on it that made the finance director ask what the alternatives are. That question has a good answer now, and it has a deadline attached, because the answer takes longer to execute than the renewal cycle gives you.
The work itself is unglamorous: inventory what runs, work out what each thing actually needs, move the ones that move cleanly, rework the ones that do not, and prove the licensing saving in a way procurement will accept.
What you get
A licensing and workload inventory, with the current cost and the modelled AWS cost side by side.
The migration and modernization executed: VMware estates onto AWS, Windows workloads replatformed or relicensed correctly, licensed databases moved to open engines or to managed AWS services where the case holds.
A licensing position your procurement team can defend, with every saving evidenced.
Your team trained on what lands.
VMware to AWS migration
A VMware to AWS migration usually starts as a budget problem and ends as an architecture one. The renewal quote is the trigger, but the estate underneath it has ten years of decisions in it: machines nobody claims, sizing that was guessed once and never revisited, and a handful of workloads that genuinely do need the hypervisor. allOps inventories the estate first, then splits it into what lifts and shifts cleanly, what belongs on native AWS services, and what should simply be decommissioned. VMware Cloud on AWS is on the table where the timeline is tight, and it is treated as a temporary staging post.
Windows Server and SQL Server on AWS
Running SQL Server on AWS is the cheaper half of this. The expensive half is licensing, and that is where most estates are paying for editions and cores they no longer use. allOps works the licensing position first: what can move under Bring Your Own License, what is better on a licence-included instance, what belongs on Amazon RDS for SQL Server, and what should move off SQL Server entirely. Windows Server workloads are replatformed the same way, with the end-of-support dates setting the sequence.
Database modernization and the move off Oracle
A PostgreSQL migration from Oracle is the single largest licensing saving available in most estates, and it is also the one most often abandoned halfway. The reason is always the same: the schema converts, the stored procedures do not. allOps assesses the conversion effort before quoting, using AWS Schema Conversion Tool and AWS Database Migration Service on the mechanical part and doing the rest by hand, then runs the two databases in parallel until the cutover is boring. Where the case does not hold, the honest answer is Amazon RDS for Oracle and a smaller saving, and that gets said before the contract is signed.
Scope
In scope
VMware to AWS migration, Windows and SQL Server modernization, and commercial database migration to open source or managed engines.
A base scope for one estate. Larger estates are scoped and quoted before signature.
Out of scope
Application rewrites beyond what the database or platform change requires.
Ongoing operations after the modernization lands. That is Managed Services.
How the price is set
Scoped on the estate and quoted before signature. AWS funds a share of qualifying modernization work through its migration programmes, confirmed per opportunity. The assessment that produces the licensing model is free, through the Foundation Sprint.
Proof
Delivered by AWS Heroes with the AWS DevOps Competency, on production estates. The external AWS-commissioned technical audit finding on delivery depth applies directly to work of this shape.
FAQ
Our VMware renewal is in four months. Is that enough time?
For the assessment and the decision, comfortably. For a full migration of a large estate, usually not, which is why the assessment models a staged position that gives you a shorter renewal now and a migration at a pace the estate can take.
Do we have to leave VMware entirely?
No. Some estates are best served by moving the majority and keeping a small footprint. The assessment says which, based on your workloads.
What about our SQL Server licences?
There are three routes: bring the licences, replatform to a managed engine, or move to an open engine. Each has a different cost and a different amount of work, and the model lays out all three so you can compare them.
Who signs off that the savings are real?
You do, against the before-and-after numbers. The model is built from your billing data and your licence position.
Ready to take the next step?
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