By migrating Windows workloads to the AWS Cloud, organisations across the globe are maximising price-to-performance and reaping the benefits of modernisation.
With a proven strategy for seamless migration and licencing optimisation, SoftwareOne (formerly Crayon) are the partner of choice to migrate your Windows workloads to the AWS Cloud and typically reduce costs by at least 20% in the process.
Alongside access to best-in-class technologies, increased scalability and security, cost reduction is a persistent and universal driver behind cloud adoption. The idea of shaking off the steep expenditure that comes with traditional on-premises infrastructures is an attractive proposition for organisations of all sizes, across every industry.
Whether it’s budget-consuming maintenance that’s hurting your bottom line, or the need to pay upfront for more server resources than you need—or having to purchase expensive hardware when you do—costs can accumulate fast. That’s why increasing numbers of companies are looking to the cloud to optimise their finances.
Cloud providers offer a number of tools and resources to make this process as easy as possible. Take AWS for example; the leading cloud platform offers different pricing models to suit your needs, the ability to match capacity to demand, as well as the ability to identify and correct resource wastage.
However, even with these resources at hand, cost optimisation has repeatedly been ranked as the top cloud initiative for businesses for half a decade1. This is in many ways unsurprising, after all, what business doesn’t prioritise cost reduction? It does however speak to the challenges organisations face when attempting to keep costs low and the constant need to discover inventive ways of doing so. One often overlooked area where money can be saved is in licence optimisation for third-party software.
Build an inventory of your compute resources and determine your actual utilisation requirements to help optimally select the lowest-cost AWS EC2 instance size and type for each workload. Use this data to determine the right blend of on-demand and spot instances, dedicated hosts, savings plan, and other options tailored to your environment.
Without optimising your cloud infrastructure, the cost of overprovisioning third-party licencing can exceed the cost of compute. Leverage the recommendations from an OLA to get the most value from your existing licencing entitlements by configuring your instances to require fewer licences while still maintaining highly performant applications.
Use the results of an AWS OLA to avoid unnecessary licencing costs and vendor lock-in. Model different licencing scenarios with licence-included or Bring Your Own Licence (BYOL) instances. Flexible licencing options enable you to drive seasonal workloads and support experimentation, as well as model dedicated environments, so you only pay for what you need.
At SoftwareOne, we help our customers build the commercial and technical foundations required for a successful and secure cloud-first digital transformation journey. With our services and expertise, you can rightsize, manage, and optimise your IT estate. Our company is built on a history of cloud economics and software asset management expertise, allowing us to typically save our customers at least 20% on IT costs.
Cloud assessments are the foundation of our Cloud Migration Plan in which we evaluate the current state of your applications, infrastructure, and workloads together with business and technology drivers, goals, and challenges. We use the information collected and analysed at this stage to create a full-proof migration plan that will steer you towards your desired cost optimisations objectives.
SoftwareOne takes a proven approach underpinned by best practises to help customers adopt cloud technologies. The process quantifies the actual costs and utilisation of current on-premises resources, before identifying optimal future-state AWS placements.
The result? You find the most cost-effective Microsoft licencing strategy to support your planned AWS migration.
We don’t just stop at OLA, using the information gathered during our assessments we can also help you:
Cloud migration is an opportunity to optimise and modernise your enterprise while embracing the opportunities available on the AWS Cloud.
If you’re planning your own migration journey but struggling to understand the implications of licencing costs, request a free OLA today and our experts will help you find the answers you’re looking for.
With 80% global market coverage, 19 years of cloud advisory experience and over 120 AWS certifications, complete with numerous validated competencies, SoftwareOne specialise in helping businesses succeed on AWS. Among our certifications is the Microsoft Workloads competency.
To date, we have helped over 10,000 customers from SMB to enterprise optimise costs, modernise and transform in the cloud.
Sources
1,2 State of the Cloud Survey 2021, Flexera, 2021. https://info.flexera.com/CM-REPORT-State-of-the-Cloud?lead_source=Website%20Visitor&id=ELQ-Landing&elqTrackId=902432567f30462192dce54e61339b2f&elq=00000000000000000000000000000000&elqaid=5771&elqat=2&elqCampaignId=
