VMware to Amazon EVS Migration by Firemind

Move VMware to AWS as it is. Keep your tools and runbooks.

Firemind moves your VMware workloads to Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS), on VMware Cloud Foundation inside your own Amazon VPC, so your teams keep their tools and runbooks. Modernise each workload later, at its own pace.

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4 stages

assess, mobilise, migrate, operate

Your approver

signs off every cutover

Tested rollback

for every wave, before it moves

No handover

the same Engine runs it afterwards

Assess it, move it, then we run it.

1 · Assess

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.

2 · Mobilise

Landing zone and a pilot wave.

Landing zone readiness, detailed plans for the first waves, a pilot migration, and MAP tagging from day one.

3 · Migrate

Wave by wave, as governed code.

Workloads move to Amazon EVS wave by wave, unchanged, with acceptance tests before and after each cutover and a tested rollback.

4 · Operate

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

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A MAP-aligned readiness assessment, an Amazon EVS sizing, a business case and a wave plan
Amazon EVS deployed in your own Amazon VPC
Workloads moved as they are, with no conversion
Acceptance tests and a tested rollback for every wave
A path to native AWS services for the workloads worth modernising
Operations by the same Engine once each wave lands

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.

If this happensThen this is where you stand

You contract the assessment stage only.You keep the readiness assessment, the business case and the wave plan. Nothing commits you to the next stage.

A wave fails its acceptance tests.It rolls back using the rollback tested before the wave started. It doesn’t move on until the tests pass.

A change is high risk.It waits for the approver you named. Every action is logged in an immutable audit trail and your AWS CloudTrail.

You want to pause between stages.Each stage is agreed at its start, with scope, acceptance tests and approvers. Contract them together or one at a time.

The wave lands.The Engine that moved it now operates it. No handover to a different team, no gap in knowledge.

Done before

~90%

of incidents auto-resolved before anyone is paged, in production

9 min

average time to resolution, from detection to verified fix

~24x

less effort across 36 tests, zero disruptions, for a Nordic enterprise (non-production pilot)

$350,000

annual AWS savings identified for an automotive services group

Case studies →

“I've started this initiative five times and never succeeded.”

Cloud Center of Excellence Lead, Nordic enterprise

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
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.

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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.