AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a service designed to simplify and accelerate the process of migrating applications to AWS. It helps organizations move their on-premises applications to AWS with minimal manual intervention and reduces the time required for migration.
Lift-and-Shift Migration: AWS MGN supports a lift-and-shift migration approach, meaning it enables you to migrate applications to AWS without needing to change their architecture or code. It replicates your on-premises servers to AWS and allows you to run them in the cloud seamlessly.
Automated Replication: The service automatically replicates the source server’s data to AWS, ensuring that the migrated application retains all of its functionality, configuration, and settings.
Non-Disruptive: AWS MGN minimizes downtime during migration, as the replication is continuous and allows you to test the migrated application in the cloud before switching over to it fully.
Minimal Refactoring: You don’t have to refactor or re-platform your applications before migrating them, which saves time and cost compared to other migration approaches.
Simplified Migration Process: The service automates much of the complex and manual work involved in migrating servers to the cloud, reducing the need for a lot of hands-on management during the migration process.
Scalable and Cost-Effective: Once your applications are migrated, they can benefit from the scalability, security, and cost-efficiency of AWS.
Use Cases:
Lift and Shift Migrations: For organizations looking to migrate applications without major modifications.
Re-platforming: When you need to re-host applications on more cost-effective or scalable cloud instances.
Cloud Modernization: A first step in moving applications to the cloud as part of a larger modernization strategy.