VMware Freedom: VMware to Native AWS Migration Assessment by Firemind
Get off VMware for good, one workload at a time.
A free assessment for leaving VMware entirely and moving into native AWS services. Upload an RVTools export and get a path for each machine: rehost to Amazon EC2, or modernise into managed services, containers or serverless.
Subscribe, connect, assess, read out.
Start free on AWS Marketplace.
Subscribe to the listing at $0. No card, no commitment, and nothing to sign before you see the result.
Read-only, nothing installed.
No agent and no inbound access to vCenter. Upload an RVTools export, and optionally CMDB and utilisation reports, through an encrypted upload page. Optionally connect your repositories read-only.
Every workload mapped to AWS.
Firemind’s IT Operations Engine maps each workload to an AWS target with a recommended path (rehost to refactor, retain or retire), dependencies, blockers and a draft wave plan.
The plan, with an architect.
A readout with a Firemind cloud architect, right-sized AWS estimates and a summary for a Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) Assess conversation with your AWS account team.
What you get back
- An inventory of every workload in scope, grouped into applications by dependencies and tags
- A recommended migration path per workload, with the AWS target and the reasoning behind it
- Dependencies and blockers, each with the evidence behind it
- A modernisation path for each machine (Amazon RDS, ECS, EKS, Lambda, FSx, or EC2 as the fallback), with effort and blockers
- The VMware share of the estate documented in the format AWS needs for MAP
- A draft wave plan, with lower-risk workloads moving first
- Right-sized AWS estimates for the AWS Pricing Calculator, including the post-migration annual run rate
- A run-readiness view of what each workload needs to operate on AWS
- A readout with a Firemind cloud architect and a summary for a MAP Assess conversation
Whatever happens, you're no worse off.
We designed this so there is no outcome where you lose. Here is every way it can go.
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Firemind is ISO 27001:2022 certified. AWS, NVIDIA and Anthropic partner.
Read-only, metadata only. You can see exactly what we can see.
The connection scripts and templates are provided in full so your team can review them before running anything. Nothing is installed in your estate.
- vCenter
- Never connected to. An RVTools export you upload
- Uploads
- Encrypted upload page; files used only for the assessment and deleted 30 days after the readout
- AWS (optional)
- A read-only role via Quick Launch: SecurityAudit and ViewOnlyAccess, with explicit denies on data
- Never read
- Object contents, database rows, secrets or key material
- Write access
- None. Remediation is switched off
- To end it
- Ask us to delete the uploads; they go 30 days after the readout anyway
Why through AWS Marketplace
Subscribe in minutes
From the AWS account you already have, with nothing to sign up for elsewhere.
AWS’s standard terms
Procured on AWS Marketplace’s standard terms, not a new contract to review.
No new supplier
If you go further, it’s billed on your existing AWS invoice. Nothing new to set up.
Prefer to talk first, or not on AWS yet?
Fill this in and a Firemind engineer replies the next working day. We'll talk through your estate and what the assessment would cover, then you decide whether to go ahead on AWS Marketplace.
Your migration may be eligible for AWS funding programmes, so ask us.