A brief look at the migration tools available from AWS

Many organizations are still in the beginning parts of their journey to the cloud. Yet, as they look at contracts that are up for renewal at their current data centers, there comes a pressing need for an expedited exit. Many of these companies are running their workloads these days not on bare metal servers but on virtualized server farms, using popular software products such as VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V.

Seeing the need to help customers move into the cloud quickly and easily, Amazon created SMS.

This service helps navigate many of the challenges that are presented when trying to move current workloads into the cloud.

Bringing your servers into AWS with SMS

SMS helps simplify the migration of multiple servers into the AWS cloud.

Using SMS helps you achieve the following:

• It helps simplify the cloud migration process.
• It allows you to orchestrate multi-server migrations.
• It minimizes downtime...