Migration from VMware to AWS Cloud

Broadcom shifted VMware’s model to a fully subscription-based format, with core-based licensing and higher minimums. This can increase costs for smaller or distributed environments and makes your company more dependent on contract renewals to maintain support and updates.

No. CloudDog always works with a gradual approach: we start with an assessment, define priorities, run a pilot, and then expand the migration in waves. You can keep part of your environment on VMware for some time and migrate first what makes the most sense to move to the cloud.

It depends on the size and complexity of the environment. Smaller environments can be migrated in a few weeks; larger projects are typically divided into phases over several months. During the initial assessment, CloudDog already estimates the effort and timeline for each stage.

In most cases, not immediately. Many VMware workloads can be migrated to AWS using a lift-and-shift model and modernized later (for example, by adopting managed services). CloudDog analyzes your environment application by application to determine when it makes sense to simply migrate and when modernization is the better option.

The free assessment maps your current VMware environment (infrastructure, licensing, critical workloads), evaluates the impact of the VMware/Broadcom changes, and proposes a reference architecture on AWS. At the end, you receive a report with migration options, cost estimates, and business continuity recommendations.

Yes. In addition to the migration project itself, CloudDog offers managed services on AWS, including monitoring, automation, backups, performance tuning, and ongoing support. The goal is to let your team focus on the business while we take care of cloud operations.

On AWS, we can design a much more robust business continuity plan: multi-AZ usage, snapshots, replication, automated backups, and periodic DR testing. CloudDog incorporates these requirements directly into the architecture, without depending on VMware licensing limitations.

Not always — the goal isn’t just to pay less, but to pay smarter: with more predictable costs aligned to real usage and supported by a modern platform. In many cases, there is a reduction in TCO; in others, the main gains come from agility, resilience, and continuity. During the assessment, CloudDog presents comparative scenarios so you can make data-driven decisions.