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Flexera Cloud Migration and Modernization - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
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Flexera Cloud Migration and Modernization

Last update: May 15, 2023

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Product overview

Category

Product capabilities

Product website

Flexera Cloud Migration

Product certifications

AWS Competency Program competencies and other certifications

AWS Migration and Modernization – Discovery, Planning, and Recommendation

AWS Marketplace

Link to subscribe or download

Flexera Cloud Migration and Modernization on AWS Marketplace

Tool deployment model

Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed

  • SaaS on AWS (vendor VPC)

  • Servers deployed on premises in customer environment

Compliance

  • App Entity

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

  • Payment card industry (PCI)

  • System and Organization Controls (SOC)

Service model

  • Full self-service – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by the customer or end-user

  • Self-service with vendor support – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by customer or end-user with the option of vendor support

  • Managed service (including partner-enabled service) – Deployment, management, and maintenance require professional services

Pricing model

Subscription

Business case analysis capabilities

Category

Product capabilities

Data import

The ability to upload IT asset data from discovery tools (such as CMDB extract, VCenter extract, SolarWinds, or Hyper-V) or from software distribution tools (such as Microsoft SCCM)

Manually

Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 instance type

The ability to select the Amazon EC2 instance type with the lowest cost based on the source server profile(1) and utilization data(2), application characteristics(3), and Amazon EC2 characteristics(4)

  • vCPU and CPU core count mapping and RAM mapping between the source server or VM and target Amazon EC2 instance

  • CPU and RAM utilization data over time, including maximum (peak), average (or median), standard deviation, and percentile statistics

  • Application or user process CPU utilization

Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 manufacturer

Intel-based Amazon EC2 instances

Exclusion of resource types

The ability to exclude Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, such as burstable T3, from TCO calculation

No

VMware Cloud on AWS analysis

The ability to analyze the cost of VMware Cloud on AWS by modeling VMware Cloud workload configurations, such as using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storage

Yes

Right-sizing, tenancy

The ability to make optimized recommendations across Amazon EC2 tenancies with Dedicated Hosts or Dedicated Instances

Dedicated Instances

Right-sizing, attached storage

The ability to use source storage profile data, utilization data, application characteristics, and AWS storage characteristics in order to right-size attached storage, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), with proper types, such as SSD or HDD

Yes

Choice of resource capacity allocation

The ability to select resource capacity allocation schemes (such as low or high resource utilization reservation) or fine-tune the utilization threshold (such as selecting a statistically lowered option 90th or 95th percentile) to reflect your conservative or optimistic resource allocation plan

Yes

License analysis

The ability to provide default license mapping and options in AWS with cost comparisons of bringing existing licenses versus buying licenses from AWS

  • Provide Amazon EC2 license options, including BYOL and AWS license-included options

  • Optimize server license cost by reducing the licensable number of CPU cores

  • Optimize server license edition (for example, recommend downgrade option from Microsoft SQL Server Enterprise to Microsoft SQL Server Standard)

  • Analyze replatform costs; for example, Microsoft SQL Server to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS), Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition

  • Analyze database consolidation costs

TCO coverage, on premises

Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively

  • Server and storage costs

  • Software, license, and support costs

  • Facility and maintenance costs (rack, infrastructure, power, and real estate)

TCO coverage, AWS

Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively

  • Amazon EC2 and Reserved Instance costs

  • Storage costs

  • Networking costs

  • VMware Cloud on AWS costs

  • License costs

TCO coverage, migration

Cost estimates

  • Training costs

  • Tool costs

  • Labor costs (customer, partner, and AWS resources)

  • AWS services costs

TCO data sovereignty support

The ability to store TCO analysis data on premises or at a designated location based on the data protection policies or government data sovereignty regulations

Yes

1 Resource profile – CPU family (x86, RISC/PowerPC, ...), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, bandwidth

2 Resource utilizations – Time-series utilization data with peak, average or median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes and minimum sampling duration of 1 month

3 Application characteristics – CPU-intense, CPU-bursty, memory-intense, storage I/O-bound, or network-bound

4 Amazon EC2 characteristics