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We inventory your data center, map dependencies, assign a 6R per application, and build a wave plan with a cost projection — then help you qualify for AWS MAP funding to offset the move.
Start Your AssessmentAging hardware, lease renewals, capacity ceilings, and DR gaps eventually force the question. Done reactively, a data center exit is risky and expensive. Done as a planned, funded program, it's a step-change in agility and cost.
SquareOps runs the full migration: discovery to understand what you have, a 6R decision per workload, a secure landing zone to land in, wave-by-wave delivery with zero-downtime cutovers, and a cost case backed by AWS MAP funding — so you leave on your terms, not the hardware's.
Discovery assigns each application one of the 6Rs — so effort goes where it pays off and nowhere it doesn't.
| Strategy | What it means | When we use it |
|---|---|---|
| Rehost | Lift-and-shift to AWS with minimal change. | Fast wins, simple apps, deadline pressure |
| Replatform | Lift-tinker-and-shift — managed DBs, autoscaling, small optimisations. | Quick gains without a rewrite |
| Repurchase | Move to a SaaS equivalent instead of hosting it. | Commodity apps with good SaaS options |
| Refactor | Re-architect cloud-native — containers, serverless, microservices. | High-value apps worth the investment |
| Retire | Decommission what's no longer used. | Dead weight found in discovery |
| Retain | Keep on-prem for now, revisit later. | Constraints or dependencies block a move |
A funded, wave-based program — momentum early, risk contained, production untouched.
Inventory, dependency mapping, and a 6R per application — plus the MAP business case.
Secure landing zone with Control Tower — accounts, guardrails, network, identity.
Group apps into waves by dependency and risk, each with a runbook and rollback.
Wave-by-wave with replication and zero-downtime, traffic-shift cutovers.
Optimise on AWS, shut down on-prem, and hand over clean Terraform IaC.
A hands-on program delivered by our team — these are the commitments baked in.
A full application inventory, dependency map, and a 6R decision per workload — so the plan is grounded in what you actually run.
We help you qualify for the Migration Acceleration Program, build the business case, and apply funding to offset assessment and migration cost.
A secure multi-account foundation with guardrails, networking, identity, and logging — so every workload lands compliant by default.
Wave-by-wave delivery with continuous replication, traffic-shift cutover, and instant rollback so production never stops.
Start with a discovery and assessment. We'll inventory your estate, assign a 6R per app, build a wave plan and cost projection, and qualify you for AWS MAP funding.
Get a Migration AssessmentOn-prem estates moved to AWS with funding, waves, and zero downtime.
Migrated roughly 12TB from the data center to AWS with a landing zone, wave plan, and zero-downtime cutover.
Discovery assigned a 6R per application, retiring dead weight and rehosting the rest to build momentum fast.
Qualified the workload for AWS MAP funding, building the business case and applying credits to the migration.
"We really appreciated the work and quality of the SquareOps team. We would absolutely recommend SquareOps to other companies."
An ISO 27001-certified AWS Advanced Partner that runs migration as a funded engineering program — discovery-led, wave-based, zero-downtime, with clean IaC at the end.
We move on facts, not assumptions — every app assessed and assigned the right 6R.
We qualify you and apply MAP credits, materially lowering the cost of the move.
Replication and rollback per wave keep production running through the whole program.
A Terraform-built landing zone and estate — cheaper to run and audit than a hand-built one.
6R strategy, MAP funding, downtime, landing zones, and waves.
The 6Rs are the six ways to move a workload to the cloud: Rehost (lift-and-shift), Replatform (lift-tinker-and-shift), Repurchase (move to SaaS), Refactor (re-architect cloud-native), Retire (decommission), and Retain (keep on-prem for now). In discovery we assess every application and assign the right R by cost, risk, and value — so you rehost what's simple, refactor what's worth it, and don't waste effort on what should be retired.
Often, yes. The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) provides funding and credits to offset assessment and migration costs for qualifying workloads. As an AWS partner we help you qualify, build the MAP business case, and apply the funding — reducing the cost of getting off your data center.
We migrate in waves with continuous data replication and parallel running. Each wave is cut over with traffic-shifting and validated before the next, and stateful systems use live replication so there's no data loss. If anything looks wrong, we roll back to on-prem instantly — production keeps running throughout.
A landing zone is the secure, multi-account AWS foundation your workloads land in — built with Control Tower for account structure, guardrails, networking, identity, and logging. Getting it right first means every migrated workload inherits security, compliance, and cost controls instead of being bolted on later.
After discovery we group applications into waves by dependency, risk, and business priority — moving low-risk, low-dependency workloads first to build momentum and prove the process, then sequencing the rest so tightly-coupled systems move together. Each wave has its own runbook, validation, and rollback plan.
Yes. We've delivered data center to AWS migrations including BatchService, where we migrated roughly 12TB of data to AWS with a landing zone, wave plan, and zero-downtime cutover. We combine discovery, 6R strategy, MAP funding, and Terraform-first delivery.
Talk to a SquareOps migration engineer about discovery and 6R strategy, AWS MAP funding, wave planning, landing zones, and a zero-downtime cutover.
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