Find out what your estate will really cost on AWS. Before you move a thing.
An AWS-funded Optimization and Licensing Assessment. We map your estate, measure what it actually uses, size it properly for AWS, and show you which Microsoft licences you can take with you.
AWS pays for the assessment, because a well-modelled migration is more likely to happen and more likely to stay.
No fee, no fixed-term contract, and nothing to buy before or after. You keep the analysis either way.
You are under no obligation to migrate, and none to use us if you do. Some of our engagements end with advice not to move.
Six questions you cannot answer from a spreadsheet.
Most organisations know roughly what they run. Very few know what it uses, what it should cost on AWS, or what they have already paid Microsoft for. An Optimization and Licensing Assessment answers all three, in this order.
Your estate, mapped
Every server, virtual machine, database instance and virtual desktop discovered and catalogued, across on-premises, VMware, Hyper-V and existing cloud. Including the things nobody remembered were still running.
What it actually uses
Utilisation measured over time rather than read off a specification sheet. Provisioning tells you what somebody once asked for. Utilisation tells you what the business genuinely consumes.
Right-sized for AWS
Instance, storage and database recommendations set against real measured load, so you buy the estate you run rather than the estate you were sold.
What it will cost
Your current environment priced as an AWS environment, with on-demand, reserved and committed purchasing options modelled side by side so the commercial decision is visible rather than assumed.
What you already own
Your Microsoft entitlement read properly. Which Windows Server and SQL Server licences are eligible to move with you, what Software Assurance and licence mobility allow, and what that is worth against licence-included pricing.
What you should not move
The workloads that should be retired, consolidated or left where they are. The cheapest workload to migrate is the one you decide not to.
Migrate without this and you pay for it twice.
Once for capacity you never used, and again for licences you had already bought.
A default migration model sizes your new environment to the specification of the old one, and prices every Windows and SQL Server instance as though you owned none of them. Both assumptions are usually wrong, and both are expensive for as long as the workload runs.
The assessment is where that gets caught. It happens once, before commitment, and it costs nothing.
Assessment is all we do.
Most firms offering a free assessment are selling something on the other side of it. Licences, migration services, managed services, or all three. That shapes the answer you get back long before you see it.
We hold no margin on anything we recommend
From any publisher and any hyperscaler. If the right answer is that you already own enough licences, nobody here loses by saying so.
We are not bidding for the work that follows
The assessment is the engagement, not a qualification exercise for a migration contract. You are free to take the model to whoever you like, including a competitor.
The licensing analysis is the point, not an appendix
Reading a Microsoft licence statement against a measured estate is a specialism. It is where the largest single saving in most engagements comes from, and it is where generalist assessments stop.
Four assessments, AWS-funded.
The OLA
The full estate assessment. Discovery, measured utilisation, right-sizing, an AWS cost model with purchasing options priced side by side, and a Microsoft, Oracle and VMware entitlement analysis layered over the top.
The OLA →Detached storageStorage Assessment
SAN, NAS, file servers and object storage mapped to S3, EBS, EFS and FSx, with a provisioned-against-used reclamation target. AWS puts storage at up to 45% of total migration opportunity, and it is the line most models skate over.
Storage →Azure to AWSCloud-to-cloud Assessment
An estate already in another cloud, mapped construct by construct to AWS targets with every assumption published. Managed instances, app services, container platforms and PaaS databases, not just virtual machines.
Cloud-to-cloud →GenAI readinessGenAI Assessment
Where your data sits, what it would take to make it usable, and what the workload would cost to run on AWS. Scoped and available now, and quoted before it starts rather than assumed to be funded.
Talk to us →We publish the whole model, not the headline.
Every case study states the estate we assessed, the commercial positions we priced against one another, and the baseline each figure is measured from. Where a number is not comparable with the others, we say so on the page.
The single largest saving came from paperwork rather than architecture. Reading the licence statement properly was worth $206,316 a year before any compute optimisation was applied.
Start with the data you already have.
Most engagements begin with an RVTools export or a read-only collector, and both are a short job. Tell us what you are sitting on and we will tell you what it can and cannot support before anything is committed.
Thirty minutes on what you run, what you are trying to decide, and whether an assessment is the right instrument.
Read-only, agentless where you want it that way, using tooling you may already have deployed.
A walkthrough of every position we priced, the assumptions behind each, and what we would do in your place.