Reduced costs
Moving from legacy on-premises infrastructure and fixed licensing fees to a pay-as-you-go IT model is up to 40x more cost-effective than running infrastructure in-house1.
Windows on AWS
Migrate, Modernize, and Manage Microsoft Workloads
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Faster innovation
The cloud gives organizations immediate access to a range of technologies that support innovation and new application development.
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Enhanced security
By gaining control of data and applications, organizations can better protect themselves from data breaches using a secure cloud environment.
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Greater flexibility
A cloud-based system allows you to scale workloads by adding computer, storage, or database resources on short notice.
Curious to learn more about migrating Windows Server workloads to AWS?
Ask and you shall receive! Our cloud experts will provide a TCO analysis, as well as make best practice recommendations for your specific environment and use cases.
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Reduced TCO and increased business value
AWS lowers the overall costs of running Windows-based applications in the cloud with its comprehensive family of Amazon EC2 instances and unique pricing models.
Customers can also reduce the five-year cost of operations by 56%2, and deliver up to 442% ROI over three years3 – freeing up customers to reinvest and accelerate modernization.
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Broader and deeper functionality
AWS has significantly more services, and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider.
With over 350 Amazon EC2 instances available, organizations can enjoy more choice and access smarter data and analytics capabilities.
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Greater reliability and performance
With the most extensive global cloud infrastructure, AWS has 80 Availability Zones within 25 geographic regions around the world and has announced plans for 15 more Availability Zones.
By moving their Windows workloads to AWS, a recent study discovered organizations can realize a 98% reduction in unplanned downtime, 71% faster deployment, and 26% higher developer productivity.
Enhanced security capabilities
AWS offers 230 security, compliance, and governance services and features. AWS supports 90 security standards and compliance certifications, so customers gain better protection and control over their data.
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Greater licensing flexibility
With its flexible bring-your-own-license-to-AWS options, customers can enjoy more flexibility, control, and visibility of their license usage and costs.
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Simpler and more secure migration
AWS has unmatched experience, maturity, reliability, security, and performance that you can depend upon for your most important applications. AWS takes the complexity and risk out of migrating so that customers can continue to focus on improving their business and remaining competitive.
As an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, AWS has validated Mindex’s technical skills and customer experience helping organizations like yours on their windows migration and modernization pathways.
Cloud Readiness Assessment
The first step, which is part of our straightforward migration program called Closet to Cloud, is where Mindex can help you assess your readiness to move to the cloud. Through an initial discovery session, our team of cloud engineers can help advise you on data-driven migration decisions based on actual resource utilization, third-party licensing, and application dependencies.
Migrate with Mindex
Customers looking to migrate Windows Server workloads can engage Mindex to provide services, best practices, and tools to help save costs and accelerate their migrations on AWS.
Optimize Windows Workloads After You Migrate
After moving your Windows workloads onto AWS, we don’t leave you hanging. Dedicated Mindex cloud engineers will help you understand and manage your AWS costs and usage over time to take control of spend, and make recommendations for your workloads by analyzing historical utilization data.
Mindex Cloud Services can also help operate your cloud environment post-migration by analyzing alerts and responding to incidents, minimizing Microsoft license dependency, and reducing operational overhead and risk.
Modernize Your Workloads After You Optimize Your Environment
Mindex can help your organization take an important step toward becoming more agile and able to adopt emerging technologies by modernizing your Microsoft workloads and Windows-based applications using the latest AWS products and resources. You will be able to innovate faster, increase your development and operational agility, scale on-demand, and reduce total cost of ownership by optimizing your existing licenses.
You don’t have to be a cloud guru.
Mindex can manage your new cloud environment!
EBOOK
Running Microsoft Workloads with Mindex on AWS
This eBook discusses different migration strategies, modernization pathways, and why now is a great time to migrate your legacy SQL Server workloads to AWS.
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