Database Migration Assessment Workshop
Overview
The Database Migration Assessment Workshop by Nimble AI Services is designed to help enterprises transition databases to AWS efficiently and securely. It enables organizations to modernize legacy systems, reduce costs, enhance scalability, and ensure compliance while minimizing risks. Our AWS-certified experts collaborate closely with your team to evaluate existing infrastructure, identify dependencies, and develop a tailored migration strategy.
Leveraging AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) and Schema Conversion Tool (SCT), we enable schema conversion, strategies for real-time replication, and minimal downtime migration planning to AWS-native services like Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Redshift. Organizations receive a customized migration roadmap, proof-of-value validation, and best practices for long-term optimization, ensuring security, performance, and cost efficiency aligned with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 compliance standards.
Solution Proposition:
Business Challenges
Organizations migrating to AWS often face the following business challenges:
- High Licensing & Maintenance Costs: Legacy systems result in excessive operational expenses.
- Complex Migration Processes: Schema conversion, data integrity, and downtime pose risks.
- Security & Compliance Requirements: Strict adherence to GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2 is essential.
- Cost & Performance Optimization Needs: Ensuring TCO efficiency and scalable AWS resource allocation.
- Limited AWS Expertise: Organizations often lack in-house cloud migration knowledge.
How Nimble AI Services Delivers Value
Nimble AI Services ensures a structured, low-risk migration to AWS by conducting a comprehensive assessment to define an optimal strategy. Our experts facilitate schema transformation, strategic planning for real-time replication, and guidance on near-zero downtime approaches using AWS DMS and SCT. Our approach covers lift-and-shift, re-platforming, and full database modernization, optimizing workloads for Amazon RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, and Redshift.
We focus on cost efficiency and scalability, helping businesses provide guidance on right-sizing AWS resources, indexing strategies, and workload optimization to improve performance while reducing operational costs. Our security-first methodology ensures compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and SOC 2, integrating encryption, access controls, and governance best practices. Organizations benefit from hands-on enablement, guidance on risk mitigation, and best practices for post-migration performance tuning, ensuring long-term operational success.
At the conclusion of the engagement, customers receive a tailored migration roadmap, proof-of-value validation, and implementation best practices, maximizing the advantages of AWS-managed database solutions for business continuity, scalability, and long-term efficiency.
Scope
In-Scope Activities
- Database Readiness Assessment: Identify dependencies, risks, and optimization opportunities.
- Migration Strategy Development: Define migration patterns (homogeneous vs. heterogeneous), AWS service selection, and architecture.
- Schema & Data Migration Planning: Utilize AWS DMS and SCT for schema conversion and data transfer.
- Proof-of-Value Validation: Validate AWS performance and define risk mitigation strategies.
- Performance & Cost Optimization: Apply AWS best practices for right-sizing and query tuning.
- Security & Compliance Assurance: Ensure regulatory adherence with built-in security controls.
- Enablement & Training: Deliver AWS best practices knowledge transfer and post-migration guidance.
Out of Scope
- Full-Scale Production Migration: The engagement is limited to assessment, planning, and proof-of-value validation.
- Deep Application Refactoring: Rearchitecting applications for microservices, serverless, or containers is beyond the scope.
- Immediate Real-Time Cutover: Production system cutover without phased validation is not included.
- Custom Development: No extensive software development beyond migration activities.
- Third-Party Software Migrations: ERP systems and applications requiring complex integrations are excluded.
- On-Premises Infrastructure Changes: No decommissioning of hardware, networking, or infrastructure modifications.
- Ongoing Database Management & Support: Managed services and long-term database operations are not part of this engagement.
Assumptions
- Pre-Defined Use Case: A mutually agreed database migration scope will be identified before the engagement begins.
- Customer Resource Availability: Key stakeholders, database administrators, and technical teams will be available for collaboration.
- Access to Database Environments: Customers will provide secure access to required environments for assessment and PoV execution.
- Non-Production Testing: Migration testing and validation will be conducted in non-production environments to minimize risks.
- Limited to Advisory & Enablement: The engagement focuses on strategy, planning, and enablement, not full-scale production migration.
- Existing AWS Infrastructure: Customers will have or provision AWS accounts and IAM roles for migration activities.
