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Migrating Microsoft-based applications to AWS native and purpose-built services enables you to capture the efficiency and productivity benefits of cloud native architecture, while reducing total cost of ownership and eliminating challenges that come with supporting and purchasing license-based operating systems and databases. AWS supports the entire spectrum of Microsoft modernization initiatives. Whether you are running Windows, Active Directory, .NET, or SQL Server workloads, AWS provides programs, tools, and services to meet you where you are and accelerate your modernization journey.

Accelerate innovation and improve performance

Leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate digital transformation, optimize current licenses, and automate operations. As you modernize Windows workloads with AWS, take advantage of the AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) to evaluate your Windows environment to reduce costs and maximize compute consumption. Utilize purpose-built services with the latest innovations to rapidly automate your Windows workloads and improve performance.

Modernize Windows workloads, unlock digital transformation

Discover the benefits of modernizing your organization’s Windows workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Access the full capability of the cloud when you modernize your applications, data, and infrastructure. 

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Why run your Microsoft workloads on AWS?

Microsoft workloads on AWS

With Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can customize your cloud and application migration plans based on your business needs. This enables you to reduce redundant services and optimize your current licenses, freeing time to innovate and become more agile to the needs of your customers. 

Modernizing Microsoft workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help your organization

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server

For organizations looking to accelerate the cloud adoption process, a re-host or “lift-and-shift” migration approach can provide a fast on-ramp to cloud modernization on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Leveraging fully managed cloud file storage with Amazon FSx can enable your organization to take advantage of the agility and cost savings of the cloud, empowering you to innovate more rapidly and build more quickly for the future.

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is a fully managed Windows-native file system that provides the compatibility, administrative features, and performance required for business-critical Windows workloads. Many customers run SQL Server workloads on AWS because AWS offers higher performance and reliability, greater security and identity services, more migration support, and flexible licensing options. Leveraging Amazon FSx multi-AZ-based file systems enables you to optimize licensing cost for your high availability deployments.  

Windows workloads to the cloud can be complex and costly. A lift-and-shift approach with AWS can speed up business agility and productivity, fueling digital innovation for the future. Amazon FSx for AWS provides a flexible, powerful, and reliable infrastructure for your Microsoft workloads. Deploying Microsoft workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. By leveraging AWS Partners to migrate your Microsoft workloads to AWS, you can commission one, hundreds, or thousands of server instances simultaneously, with greater reliability across globally dispersed Availability Zones. 

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server can help simplify your Windows file-based workload migration with native windows compatibility for

      • SMB protocol
      • Windows NTFS
      • Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
Move to managed cloud storage

For organizations looking to accelerate the cloud adoption process, a re-host or “lift-and-shift” migration approach can provide a fast on-ramp to cloud modernization on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Leveraging fully managed cloud file storage with Amazon FSx can enable your organization to take advantage of the agility and cost savings of the cloud, empowering you to innovate more rapidly and build more quickly for the future.

Optimize the cost of SQL Server Workloads

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server is a fully managed Windows-native file system that provides the compatibility, administrative features, and performance required for business-critical Windows workloads. Many customers run SQL Server workloads on AWS because AWS offers higher performance and reliability, greater security and identity services, more migration support, and flexible licensing options. Leveraging Amazon FSx multi-AZ-based file systems enables you to optimize licensing cost for your high availability deployments.  

Why migrate your storage for Windows-based workloads to AWS Moving file-based?

Windows workloads to the cloud can be complex and costly. A lift-and-shift approach with AWS can speed up business agility and productivity, fueling digital innovation for the future. Amazon FSx for AWS provides a flexible, powerful, and reliable infrastructure for your Microsoft workloads. Deploying Microsoft workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. By leveraging AWS Partners to migrate your Microsoft workloads to AWS, you can commission one, hundreds, or thousands of server instances simultaneously, with greater reliability across globally dispersed Availability Zones. 

Lift and shift Windows workloads without refactoring

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server can help simplify your Windows file-based workload migration with native windows compatibility for

      • SMB protocol
      • Windows NTFS
      • Microsoft Active Directory (AD)
Windows file sharing made easy

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides reliable and scalable file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. It delivers a wide range of administrative features such as user quotas, end-user file restores, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration. With Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, you can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of commercially licensed Windows file systems. 

The AWS advantage for Windows
  • For more than 10 years, customers have trusted AWS for their Microsoft Windows workloads 
  • Greater reliability 2X more Regions with multiple Availability Zones 
  • Increased security 5X more services offering encryption 
  • Higher performance 2X higher performance than next SQL Server provider 
Accelerate productivity for Windows Workloads

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server helps increase productivity with operational and cost-saving solution. Itis a fully managed file storage service that is specifically designed for Windows-based workloads. It provides a native Windows file system that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. This means that Windows applications and users can seamlessly access file shares, enabling smooth collaboration and efficient workflows. 

Reduce complexity with migrating application workloads

Fully managed by using AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK 

  • Sets up and provisions file servers  
  • Installs software updates & patches  
  • Performs durable daily backups 
  • No upfront fees or minimum commitments

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server automatically handles the data replication and failover, simplifying shared storage to host your database deployments while helping you improve time-to-market and reduce costs. 

Windows file sharing made easy

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server provides reliable and scalable file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. It delivers a wide range of administrative features such as user quotas, end-user file restores, and Microsoft Active Directory (AD) integration. With Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, you can leverage the rich feature sets and fast performance of commercially licensed Windows file systems. 

The AWS advantage for Windows

  • For more than 10 years, customers have trusted AWS for their Microsoft Windows workloads
  • Greater reliability 2X more Regions with multiple Availability Zones
  • Increased security 5X more services offering encryption
  • Higher performance 2X higher performance than next SQL Server provider

Accelerate productivity for Windows Workloads

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server helps increase productivity with operational and cost-saving solution. Itis a fully managed file storage service that is specifically designed for Windows-based workloads. It provides a native Windows file system that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. This means that Windows applications and users can seamlessly access file shares, enabling smooth collaboration and efficient workflows. 

Reduce complexity with migrating application workloads

Fully managed by using AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDK 

  • Sets up and provisions file servers
  • Installs software updates & patches
  • Performs durable daily backups
  • No upfront fees or minimum commitments

Amazon FSx for Windows File Server automatically handles the data replication and failover, simplifying shared storage to host your database deployments while helping you improve time-to-market and reduce costs. 

Migrating Microsoft Workloads to AWS

With rising costs and economic instability, SMB customers are under great pressure to optimize operations and reduce unnecessary business expenses. This is especially true as SMB customers look to navigate the uncertainty of the post-pandemic world. One study has found that over 61% of mid-sized business leaders cite uncertain economic conditions as their top challenge for 2021.1 With the rising cost of Microsoft licenses and the significant cost burden of running legacy IT infrastructure, migrating workloads to the cloud has provided organizations with a more cost-effective way to run their Windows-based applications. While organizations continue to focus on reducing costs, this must be done without undermining businesses’ ability to continue to grow and remain responsive to competitors and changing customer demands.  

As digital transformation accelerates across nearly every industry, customers are increasingly demanding new digital interactions, services, and products. If organizations are unable to provide this, they risk losing customers to more digitally advanced competitors. Being able to remain competitive, drive innovation, and accelerate digital transformation have been key drivers for many SMB customers that have migrated their Microsoft workloads to the cloud.

Why run your Microsoft workloads on AWS?

By migrating your Microsoft workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS), your organization can quickly adapt to changing market trends and evolving customers needs while consistently delivering a personalized experience that can help fuel sustained business growth. 
Transform your Microsoft workloads to achieve

Why Microsoft workloads on AWS?

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has over a decade of experience running Microsoft workloads on the cloud and offers a scalable and secure infrastructure for its customers. Migrating your Windows-based applications to AWS gives you access to a broad selection of services with deep functionality while lowering the costs of running your Microsoft workloads. 

Why migrate your Microsoft workloads to AWS?

AWS provides a flexible, powerful, and reliable infrastructure for your Microsoft workloads. Deploying Microsoft workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. By leveraging Futran Solutions to migrate your Microsoft workloads to AWS, you can commission one, hundreds, or thousands of server instances simultaneously, with greater reliability across globally dispersed Availability Zones.  Transform your Microsoft workloads to achieve

What are the benefits of migrating Microsoft workloads to AWS?

There are many advantages to cloud migration for SMB customers. A recent whitepaper by IDC shows that migrating your workloads to AWS can lead to 51% reduced operational costs, 62% increased IT staff productivity, and 94% reductions in downtime. 

Realize the Benefits of Migrating Your Microsoft Workloads

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Optimize costs and drive greater performance

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Simplify your migration journey

To remain competitive during a time of economic uncertainty, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) must find a way to reduce costs while increasing the performance, availability, and security of their Microsoft workloads. By migrating Microsoft workloads to AWS, SMB customers can optimize costs and improve the agility, flexibility, and scalability of their Microsoft workloads. Once migrated, SMB customers can then innovate more easily and further modernize their applications to realize continued cost savings. 

Futran solutions offer expertise, guidance, and a range of value-added services. We will guide you in your migration, taking the time to understand your business goals and drivers, identifying the opportunities available with AWS cloud technology, and helping you capitalize on the benefits. AWS offers a simple, fast, and cost-effective option for migrating Microsoft workloads to the cloud through the AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) program. The AWS OLA is free for customers looking to migrate to the cloud and helps to assess and optimize current on premises and cloud environments and demonstrates the potential savings and agility of the AWS Cloud. 
Benefits experienced include: 

Why AWS for Microsoft workloads?

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Enhanced security capabilities

AWS has the broadest global infrastructure with 77 Availability Zones (AZ) across 24 regions and 99.99% availability for each Amazon EC2 region. By moving your Windows workloads to AWS, customers can realize a 98% reduction in unplanned downtime, 71% faster deployment, and 26% higher developer productivity, per IDC. 

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Greater licensing flexibility

AWS offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features, 5x more services than the next largest cloud provider. With the AWS Nitro System, the underlying platform for EC2 instances, virtualization functions are offloaded to dedicated hardware and software resulting in a minimized attack surface.  

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Simpler and more secure migration

AWS has unmatched experience helping millions of organizations reach their migration goals faster through unique tools and services. With AWS Database Migration Service, we’ve migrated over 230,000 databases and we can help you quickly and securely migrate, while minimizing downtime to applications.  

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projected 5-year ROI when you run Windows on AWS9
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Price/performance advantage vs. next largest cloud providers
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more regions with multiple availability zones vs. next largest cloud provider.

Running Microsoft Workloads on AWS

AWS provides a flexible, powerful, and reliable infrastructure for your Microsoft workloads. Deploying Microsoft workloads on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) enables you to increase or decrease capacity within minutes, not hours or days. By leveraging Futran Solutions to migrate your Microsoft workloads to AWS, you can commission one, hundreds, or thousands of server instances simultaneously, with greater reliability across globally dispersed Availability Zones.

Migrate Your Microsoft Workloads to the Cloud

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has over a decade of experience running Microsoft workloads on the cloud and offers a scalable and secure infrastructure for its customers. Migrating your Windows-based applications to AWS gives you access to a broad selection of services with deep functionality while lowering the costs of running your Microsoft workloads. Transform your Microsoft workloads to achieve

Improve Microsoft Workload Performance by Migrating to AWS

Achieve digital transformation and accelerate your journey to modernization by migrating your Windows-based applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS). With AWS’s broad cloud capabilities, you can increase application availability and performance.

Benefits of running Microsoft workloads on AWS

Modernize Your Microsoft Workloads with AWS

With Amazon Web Services (AWS), you can customize your cloud and application migration plans based on your business needs. This enables you to reduce redundant services and optimize your current licenses, freeing time to innovate and become more agile to the needs of your customers. 

Achieve Greater Business Agility and Performance

By migrating your Microsoft workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS), your organization can quickly adapt to changing market trends and evolving customers needs while consistently delivering a personalized experience that can help fuel sustained business growth. 

Transform your Microsoft workloads to achieve

  • Increased application reliability with globally dispersed Availability Zones
  • Flexible licensing to fit your business needs
  • More time to focus on innovation and creation

Benefits Running Microsoft Workloads on AWS

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Higher reliability and performance

AWS has the broadest global infrastructure with 77 Availability Zones (AZ) across 24 regions and 99.99% availability for each Amazon EC2 region. By moving your Windows workloads to AWS, customers can realize a 98% reduction in unplanned downtime, 71% faster deployment, and 26% higher developer productivity, per IDC. 

security

Greater security and identity services

AWS offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features, 5x more services than the next largest cloud provider. With the AWS Nitro System, the underlying platform for EC2 instances, virtualization functions are offloaded to dedicated hardware and software resulting in a minimized attack surface.  

More migration experience

AWS has unmatched experience helping millions of organizations reach their migration goals faster through unique tools and services. With AWS Database Migration Service, we’ve migrated over 230,000 databases and we can help you quickly and securely migrate, while minimizing downtime to applications.  

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