UPGR ADING LEGACY WINDOWS SERVERS
End-of-Support Migration Program
for Windows Server
Many organizations struggle with migrating their legacy applications due to tight
dependencies on older, unsupported operating systems (OS), limited in-house expertise, and/
or missing access to installation media or source code. Moreover, getting extended support for
these applications does not resolve the inevitable end-of-support problem, it just delays the
inevitable. To mitigate these challenges, AWS offers the End-of-Support Migration Program
(EMP) for Windows Server.
EMP for Windows Server includes technology and expert guidance that can help your teams
migrate legacy applications from Windows Server 2003, 2008, and 2008 R2 to newer,
supported versions on AWS, without the need for refactoring.
The EMP technology decouples the applications from the underlying OS, enabling AWS
Partners or AWS Professional Services to migrate your critical applications to a newer,
supported version of Windows Server on AWS. Once on AWS, you can further optimize the
operations and costs for these applications.
AWS EMP technology identifies your application's dependencies on the outdated OS, and
creates a package that includes all the resources necessary to run on the newer version of
Windows Server. This resolves the dependencies and decouples the application from the
underlying OS—enabling you to run the packaged application on future versions of Windows
Server without having to worry about upgrading these applications when the next end of
support event for Windows Server arrives.
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