VMware Freedom: VMware to Native AWS Migration by Firemind
Leave VMware entirely. Every workload to the AWS service that fits it.
Firemind moves your VMware workloads into native AWS services, one by one: databases to Amazon RDS or Aurora, application tiers to ECS, EKS or Lambda, file servers to FSx, and EC2 as the fallback. Then at least a year of operations by the same Engine.
Assess it, move it, then we run it.
A plan you can take to finance.
MAP-aligned discovery and readiness, a path per workload, a business case with an AWS Pricing Calculator estimate, and a wave plan.
Landing zone and a pilot wave.
Landing zone readiness, detailed plans for the first waves, a pilot migration, and MAP tagging from day one.
Wave by wave, as governed code.
Each workload moves to the AWS service that fits it, with EC2 as the fallback, and acceptance tests and a tested rollback for every wave.
Then we run it.
The same Engine handles monitoring, incident remediation, patching and end-of-life runtimes, with high-risk changes waiting for a named approver.
What’s in scope
- A MAP-aligned readiness assessment, a path per machine, a business case and a wave plan
- Databases to Amazon RDS or Aurora
- Application tiers to Amazon ECS, EKS or AWS Lambda
- File servers to Amazon FSx, load balancers to Elastic Load Balancing
- Acceptance tests and a tested rollback for every wave
- At least a year of operations by the same Engine
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.
Done before
“I've started this initiative five times and never succeeded.”
The Engine finished that tagging compliance initiative in under nine minutes.
Firemind is ISO 27001:2022 certified. AWS, NVIDIA and Anthropic partner.
Read-only on the source. Every change on AWS run as code, under your rules.
Firemind connects through an IAM role you deploy with AWS CloudFormation, using temporary credentials. Pilot scopes run from Firemind’s AWS environment; in production the Engine runs in your own accounts.
- Source platform
- Read-only access to vCenter and, optionally, your repositories
- AWS
- An IAM role you deploy, temporary credentials only
- Changes
- Planned, raised as code and run under your change rules
- Cutovers
- Wait for a named approver, with a tested rollback
- Audit
- Immutable audit trail plus your AWS CloudTrail
Why through AWS Marketplace
On your AWS invoice
Billed through your existing AWS account, alongside everything else you run.
AWS’s standard terms
Procured on AWS Marketplace’s standard terms, so procurement has seen them before.
No new supplier
Nothing new to set up as a supplier. Accept the private offer and start.
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 engagement would cover, then you decide whether to go ahead on AWS Marketplace.
Your migration may be eligible for AWS funding programmes, so ask us.