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AMAZON WEB SERVICES | ACCELER ATING YOUR AWS MIGR ATION
data centers. It retrained 200 technical staff for the cloud and 2,500 employees
to work using an agile operating model, transforming into a more innovative
company within a highly regulated industry. Along the way, Guardian Life
Insurance introduced automated build-and-deployment pipelines and sped up
provisioning of an entire application stack—shortening the process from weeks
down to just one to two days.
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The three-phase migration process and the seven migration patterns
("The 7 R's") described in the next sections serve as guiding principles to structure
your cloud migration journey in ways that help you realize fast, continuous,
quantifiable business value.
Learn more about migrating to AWS now >
The three-phase migration process
We understand that every migration is different; however, based on our experience
with over a million active customers and helping organizations of all ages,
industries, and geographies migrate to the cloud, we have seen a standardized
migration process take shape. This process can generally be broken into three
phases of activities: 1) Assess, 2) Mobilize and 3) Migrate and modernize.
Following this three-phase approach is the best way for your organization to
efficiently and quickly migrate tens, hundreds, or thousands of applications.
"In the current dynamic business environment,
organizations have to adapt at a very rapid pace.
Business agility enabled by lower-cost cloud
computing technology offers the unique ability
to address this disruptive shift."
— IDC White Paper, sponsored by Amazon, "Fostering Business and Organizational
Transformation to Generate Business Value with Amazon Web Services,"
February 2018
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