Migration of Windows Servers to AWS Cloud
The transition of Windows servers to AWS cloud represents a strategic opportunity for companies to modernize their IT operations, ensuring greater efficiency and security across various business sectors. Recognizing the complexity of this change, CloudDog specializes in simplifying the migration process, ensuring a smooth and disruption-free transition. When migrating to AWS cloud, CloudDog recommends adopting managed services tailored to each critical function of your Windows servers, such as user management, file management, backups, and databases. This approach not only improves function segregation but also enhances operational quality, minimizing risks and maximizing system availability. Our differentiator lies in the use of advanced technologies, such as the Application Migration Service, which minimizes downtime during migration. Additionally, we establish high-speed, redundant connections to ensure fast, secure, and resilient communication between our clients' environments and AWS cloud. With CloudDog, your company will have a migration planned and executed by experts, ensuring that your IT infrastructure aligns with market best practices and is ready to meet future business demands.
Features
- AWS Migration Hub: A centralized platform that facilitates tracking the progress of AWS migrations from multiple sources, such as physical and virtual servers, both on-premises and from other clouds. It serves as a coordination point for your migration activities, providing a unified view of your applications' status during the migration process.
- Amazon Directory Service: Enables the creation and management of Microsoft Active Directory directories on AWS, facilitating user, group, and policy management, essential for organizations migrating their Windows workloads.
- Amazon FSx for Windows: Offers fully managed native Windows file systems on AWS, providing performance, security, and compatibility for applications requiring shared storage, such as file servers.
- Amazon DataSync: Simplifies, automates, and accelerates online data transfer between on-premises storage systems and AWS, optimizing the migration of large volumes of data and files to the cloud.
- Amazon EC2: Provides scalable computing capacity in the cloud. It is fundamental for Windows server migration, allowing optimized instance selection for different workloads and flexible cloud operations.
- Amazon Application Migration Service (formerly CloudEndure Migration): Facilitates application migration to AWS with minimal downtime, automating server replication and conversion to AWS environments.
- Amazon EC2 Systems Manager: Helps manage and maintain EC2 instances and other AWS resources, enabling automation of administrative tasks such as software patching, system configuration, and monitoring.
- Amazon RDS for SQL Server: Provides managed relational database services for SQL Server, simplifying database administration tasks like backup, patching, and scalability, crucial for SQL Server-based applications.
- Amazon Database Migration Service: Allows secure database migration to AWS with minimal downtime, supporting data transfers between different database platforms, including SQL Server.
- Amazon Direct Connect: Establishes a dedicated network connection from your on-premises environment to AWS, offering higher bandwidth and a more consistent network experience, ideal for high-speed data transfers and critical applications.
- Amazon VPN Site to Site: Creates a secure and private connection between your on-premises network and your AWS VPC, enabling secure data migration and a seamless extension of your corporate network to the cloud.
AWS Partner and AWS Certified Partner
In 2023, CloudDog accomplished a critical milestone by achieving competence in AWS Control Tower, reinforcing its solid commitment to Amazon Web Services. This journey began in 2019 when the company became an AWS Select Level Partner. Since then, CloudDog has remained committed to AWS, receiving fully support from the firm. CloudDog has received several certifications throughout the years, including becoming the second AWS partner in Brazil to earn Amazon CloudFront Accreditation in 2020. By 2022, the business has gained five additional AWS service specialties, further solidifying its deep knowledge of the AWS ecosystem.
CloudDog achieved the peak of its exceptional journey in 2023, when it became an AWS Advanced Partner, a tribute to its advanced technological expertise and an outstanding record of over 100 successful projects in the AWS Cloud. CloudDog is now fully ready to coordinate flawless migrations of clients' workloads to AWS, delivering exceptional, ongoing outcomes. This accomplishment highlights CloudDog's strong position as a reliable consulting partner inside AWS.
Architecture
Use Cases
- Application Modernization: After migrating Windows Servers to AWS Cloud, your company can benefit from a managed environment using the latest technologies, reducing administrative overhead so you can focus on growing your business.
- Disaster Recovery: An application hosted on AWS Cloud benefits from dozens of data centers and thousands of servers that can be used in case of a disaster, along with services and automation tools that enable the creation of application and database server replicas.
- Security: Rely on a team of security specialists who work continuously to protect environments and are prepared to handle the most complex incidents.
- Application Modernization in AWS Cloud: By migrating your Windows Servers to AWS Cloud with CloudDog, your company gains access to an advanced technology ecosystem that can drive application modernization. By leveraging AWS-managed services, your company significantly reduces administrative burdens, allowing your team to focus on innovation and strategic growth.
- Disaster Recovery: Implement a Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy by taking advantage of a global infrastructure composed of dozens of data centers and thousands of servers. This approach ensures high availability and business continuity for critical applications while offering advanced services and automation for rapid server and database replication. With the ability to respond promptly to disasters, your application maintains operational continuity and data protection.
- Advanced Security: In AWS Cloud, you benefit from an elite cybersecurity team dedicated to protecting your cloud environments from emerging threats. CloudDog specialists employ the most rigorous security practices and are always ready to respond to complex incidents quickly and effectively. With a combination of continuous monitoring, granular access controls, and data encryption, your cloud operations remain resilient against threats, allowing you to operate confidently in the digital environment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Windows Server Migration to AWS Cloud?
Windows Server Migration to AWS Cloud involves transferring workloads, applications, and data from physical or virtual Windows servers located on-premises (in your local infrastructure) to Amazon Web Services' cloud infrastructure. This process aims to improve scalability, efficiency, and operational flexibility.
How does AWS ensure application and data security?
AWS ensures security through a global infrastructure, encryption of data in transit and at rest, granular access controls, continuous security monitoring, threat analysis, and strict compliance with global security and privacy standards.
What are the common challenges in migrating Windows servers to AWS?
Common challenges include proper migration assessment and planning, ensuring application compatibility, managing complex dependencies, minimizing downtime during migration, and adapting to the new cloud security architecture.
Does AWS provide support during the migration process?
Yes, AWS offers a variety of tools and services, such as AWS Migration Hub, AWS Database Migration Service, and AWS Application Migration Service, along with specialized support to efficiently plan and execute the migration.
What are the main benefits of migrating to AWS?
The main benefits include reduced costs associated with physical infrastructure, greater scalability and flexibility, improved operational efficiency, access to a wide range of managed services, and significant enhancements in security and compliance.
How to start migrating Windows Servers to AWS?
The process begins with a detailed assessment of your current Windows workloads, followed by selecting the appropriate migration strategies and tools, planning the migration, executing the migration plan, and finally optimizing applications and infrastructure on AWS.
How is application modernization performed on AWS?
Application modernization on AWS may involve refactoring or re-architecting legacy applications to leverage AWS-managed services, adopting DevOps practices, containers, and microservices to enhance agility, performance, and scalability.
What is needed for an effective Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy on AWS?
An effective DR strategy on AWS should include identifying critical business applications, defining Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), implementing automated backups and replicas across different availability zones or regions, and regularly testing the recovery plan.
