Jumpstart Your AWS Cloud Migration

The cloud migration landscape has fundamentally shifted. Where enterprises once faced months-long planning cycles and million-dollar budgets, today's small and medium businesses demand faster, more predictable paths to AWS adoption. The traditional migration playbook, designed for Fortune 500 complexity, simply doesn't align with SMB resource constraints and the need to maintain existing IT infrastructure.

Migration Reality Check: Traditional Approaches are Dead

Recent industry data reveals a stark disconnect between migration expectations and outcomes. According to enterprise surveys, 71% of executives delay cloud migrations due to complexity and cost concerns, while 69% of organizations experience budget overruns during the migration process. For SMBs, these statistics represent existential risks rather than mere project delays.

The Core Challenges for Small to Midsize Businesses:

• Legacy workload complexity without enterprise-scale resources, often involving a mix of on-premises servers and disparate systems.
• Limited internal AWS expertise and specialized migration skills, as dedicated IT staff are often stretched thin managing day-to-day operations.
• Pressure to maintain business continuity during transition, as even minor disruptions can significantly impact revenue and customer satisfaction.
• Uncertainty around true migration costs and timelines, making it difficult to justify the investment to stakeholders.
• Risk of performance degradation or extended downtime, directly impacting critical business applications.

Enter Caylent Accelerate™: AI-Powered Migration

As the 2024 AWS Global Migration Partner of the Year, Caylent has reimagined cloud migration for resource-constrained organizations. The Caylent Accelerate™ for Cloud Migration platform leverages artificial intelligence to de-risk migrations and compress traditional migration timelines by up to 50% while embedding resiliency and cost optimization directly into the process.

What Makes This Different:

• End-to-End AI Automation: AWS tools like Application Migration Service (MGN) and AWS Transform automate discrete steps in a migration. Caylent Accelerate™ orchestrates the entire lifecycle with AI, from discovery and planning through migration execution, testing, and cutover. It automatically translates VM metadata into optimized AWS launch templates, generates Terraform infrastructure as code for every workload, and embeds future-ready management into the process. 
• Built-In Best Practices: As an AWS Migration Partner of the Year, we have expertise in delivering migrations at scale and have productized our experience by developing testing templates for AI-driven health checks and dependency validations, minimizing downtime and reducing errors before cutover.

The SMB Migration Quick Start: Tailored for Speed and Budget

Recognizing that SMBs require different approaches than enterprise customers, Caylent developed the SMB Migration Quick Start—a streamlined 7-week engagement specifically designed for organizations that need a boost to get mobilized, but want to own the migration themselves (whether for budgetary or knowledge purposes).

Strategic Implementation Considerations

• Assessment First: Successful migrations begin with accurate discovery. Automated tooling captures current environment details while AI-powered cost analysis provides realistic AWS projections, giving SMBs a clear picture of what to expect from their existing IT footprint.
• Foundation Matters: AWS Control Tower implementation creates the multi-account security and governance structure essential for scalable cloud operations, addressing common SMB concerns about security and compliance in the cloud.
• Automation Enables Scale: AWS MGN automation with orchestrated replication and testing frameworks allows parallel workload migration while minimizing risk to ongoing business operations.
• Knowledge Transfer Ensures Success: Comprehensive documentation, runbooks, and team training enable organizations to complete remaining migrations independently, empowering internal IT teams. 

Accelerated Timeline:

• Weeks 1-2: Planning & Foundation: Concurrent assessment activities and AWS Control Tower implementation provide an immediate foundation while gathering migration requirements.
• Weeks 3-6: Migrate & Validate: AWS MGN automation deployment and testing framework configuration culminate in migrating the first wave of 20-50 VMs with automated validation.
• Week 7: Launch & Enable: Client acceptance testing, comprehensive documentation handoff, and team training enable independent completion of remaining migration phases.

Real-World Impact

Caylent has already worked with many customers to jump-start their cloud migration by combining our AI-powered Caylent Accelerate™ for Cloud Migration tooling with the right upskilling approach to enable their team. 

Consider the experience of Nationwide Appraisal Services, a regional business facing escalating VMware licensing costs and data center renewal pressures. Like many SMBs, they needed a migration solution that could deliver results quickly without requiring extensive internal cloud expertise or risking operational disruption to their existing IT setup.

Nationwide Appraisal Services experienced a 40% reduction in time through AI-powered discovery that quickly identified true migration requirements. The automated infrastructure as code generation and generative AI testing suite ensured a smooth transition of critical systems while modernizing infrastructure and eliminating VMware licensing costs—a significant relief for SMBs tied to expensive on-premises licenses.

This demonstrates how the right migration approach can transform operational constraints into competitive advantages for SMBs.

Choosing the Right Solution for You

Full Caylent Accelerate™ for Cloud Migration vs. SMB Quick Start

While both offerings leverage the same AI-powered foundation, they serve distinct organizational needs:

Caylent Accelerate™ for Cloud Migration targets enterprises with complex, large-scale environments requiring comprehensive modernization. These engagements typically involve hundreds or thousands of workloads, extensive compliance requirements, and multi-month timelines. In this model, we provide a white-glove end-to-end migration, handing off the operational platform running in the cloud.

SMB Migration Quick Start focuses on speed and enablement for smaller environments and customers with the technical capability to carry forward the offer, addressing the unique needs of SMBs who want more control over their migration journey.

Key Differentiators: