Cloud Migration

AWS Migration Services

We base our approach on the AWS Migration Acceleration Program to leverage lessons learned from thousands of migrations. While we follow the AWS playbook, we right-size the approach to your organisation—especially helpful if you're not enterprise-scale.

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Why Partner

Why Migrate With an Expert Partner

Migrating workloads to AWS involves complexity, especially with application interdependencies. Working with a partner reduces risk and accelerates your timeline.

Lower risk

Lower Risks

We've completed many migrations and know where the pitfalls hide. You understand your workloads; we understand AWS. Together, we ensure a safe, secure migration.

Cost control

Avoid Cost Blowouts

Unknown unknowns can derail budgets. We help you make cost-conscious decisions throughout the migration—not just in a theoretical "optimise later" phase.

Faster completion

Faster Completion

Some organisations never complete their migration, paying for both old and new environments indefinitely. Partners have higher success rates and faster timelines.

Our Process

Migration Flow

01

Assess

Evaluate your organisation's readiness for cloud migration. We help identify desired business outcomes and develop a migration business case.

Outcomes

  • Understanding of current environment
  • Migration cost estimates
  • Early risk identification
  • Business-aligned migration goals
02

Mobilise

Refine the business case, map your environment to migration waves based on dependencies and priorities, and deploy or upgrade your Landing Zone.

Outcomes

  • Refined migration strategy
  • Optimised wave plan
  • Landing Zone deployed
  • Business alignment confirmed
03

Migrate & Modernise

Execute the migration. Each application gets designed, migrated, and validated. We modernise where possible to leverage cloud-native capabilities.

Outcomes

  • Streamlined execution
  • Minimal business disruption
  • Automated processes
  • Real-time progress tracking
04

Operate

Establish your post-migration operational model. We ensure you're set up for long-term success with proper monitoring, cost management, and governance.

Outcomes

  • Cloud Operating Model
  • Performance monitoring
  • Ongoing cost optimisation
  • Automated operations
Capabilities

Migration Services

Assess

Assess Services

  • • Cloud Adoption Framework Workshops
  • • Migration Readiness Assessments
  • • Inventory and Dependency Mapping
  • • Application Portfolio Analysis
  • • Business Case Creation
Mobilise

Mobilise Services

  • • Migration Factory Setup
  • • Workload Readiness Assessment
  • • Migration Plan Development
  • • Training and Upskilling
  • • Data Migration Strategy
Migrate

Migrate & Modernise

  • • Workload Migration Execution
  • • Data Migration Execution
  • • Real-Time Monitoring
  • • Post-Migration Validation
  • • Application Refactoring
Operate

Operate Services

  • • Cloud Operations Management
  • • Performance Monitoring
  • • Cost Management
  • • Security & Compliance
  • • DevOps and CI/CD

Ready to Migrate to AWS?

Start with a migration readiness assessment to understand your path forward.

Use our calculator to get an idea of how much we'll cost you before going ahead.

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Get in touch

Why wait? Get in touch with us today to have a yarn about how we can help.

info@mckinnelconsultants.co.nz

(+64) 20 4099 7112 (Chris)