Cloud Migration Services

Accelerate your journey to the AWS Cloud

More and more organizations are accelerating the migration of on-premises infrastructure, data, and applications to the cloud. They want to swap their costly, inflexible, and monolithic environment for a pay-as-you-go alternative that allows them to take advantage of technologies such as data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

At NorthBay, we know that AWS provides the most trusted and comprehensive suite of cloud services, which is why we are an AWS Migration Competency Partner. What does that mean for you? As one of a very select group of partners with this accreditation, you can rely on us for top-tier AWS expertise in all things cloud migration: applications, infrastructure, and databases.

31%

Average infrastructure
cost savings

62%

IT staff productivity boost

94%

Application downtime reduction

3x

More features delivered per year

Why Organizations Choose NorthBay Solutions for Cloud Migrations

Cloud migration can be a challenging and difficult process. NorthBay Solutions has the experience and the expertise to tackle these challenges head-on, help you make the right decisions, and guide you through the process every step of the way.

Throughout the journey, we make sure the business outcomes you wish to achieve stay at the forefront of everything we do during the migration strategy, discovery, planning, execution, and enablement phases.
We help you understand which AWS solutions (including security) are right for your application and database architecture, then craft a migration strategy that ensures your business operations run smoothly with minimal downtime during the migration process.
We partner take on the heavy lifting during migration so that your team can focus on day-to-day operations and strategic business priorities.
We fully enable your team on AWS and cloud best practices so that they are equipped to manage the environment moving forward.

Results we delivered

According to an IDC study 2020, moving workload to AWS can improve key performance measurements such as:

31%

Average infrastructure
cost savings

62%

IT staff productivity boost

94%

Application downtime reduction

3x

More features delivered per year

AWS and Migration Expertise

For nearly a decade, NorthBay has been 100% AWS focused, developing expertise in migrating mission-critical custom legacy applications and data workloads including data warehouses in over hundreds of project engagements.

Engagement Flexibility

NorthBay offers a variety of engagement models allowing customers like you to migrate at your pace, engage at your choice with onshore/offshore AWS certified professionals organized in NorthBay lead teams, or bundled teams or staff augmentation to complement your organization during its migration journey.

Team and Business Impact

NorthBay has supported over 300 customers, enabling customer organizations like yours to reach their business goals as well as enabling their teams with CI/CD and DevOps methods to become highly Cloud proficient.

The NorthBay Cloud Migration Framework

Our comprehensive cloud migration framework is based upon industry and AWS/NorthBay best practices for migrations to the cloud that we’ve developed over the past decade.

Cloud Migration Discovery

We combine our best practices approach with automated tools such as AWS Migration Readiness assessment to assess your infrastructure, applications and data to determine the best solution for your business needs.

Cloud Migration Planning

With the help of our modern analysis tools, prioritize applications and identify required remediations to help you reduce risk, time, and cost, as well as enhance agility, performance, and availability.

Cloud Migration Strategy

Leveraging data from the discovery phase, we assess your business needs, identify opportunities and recommend the optimal migration strategy and associated cloud services. Where possible, we investigate modernization “low-hanging fruit” opportunities to accelerate the massive value available from the cloud.

Cloud Migration Execution

We leverage our extensive migration experience, automated cloud management and migration tools to support a smooth migration. By the way, NorthBay is one of only three partners that are certified on AWS’s Engagement Delivery Framework (EDF).

Services and offerings

A migration readiness assessment (MRA) is a process of gaining insights into how far along an organization is on their cloud journey, understanding their current cloud-readiness strengths, and weaknesses, and building an action plan to close identified gaps and enable them to migrate to the cloud quickly and at scale. After an MRA, a considerable reduction in roadblocks, risks, and change resistance are observed that can disrupt progress.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) is followed to help organizations develop and execute efficient and effective plans for their cloud adoption journey. The guidance and best practices provided by the framework help you build a comprehensive approach to cloud computing across your organization, and throughout your IT lifecycle. Using the AWS CAF helps you realize measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster and with less risk

The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a proven, comprehensive offering that helps accelerate the cloud migration and modernization journey. It leverages a three-phased framework (Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate and Modernize) in order to achieve a strong AWS cloud foundation while reducing initial costs.

The AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses APN Partners with customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services.

The AWS Service DeliveryProgram identifies and endorses APN Partners with customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services. Based on six pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, sustainability and cost optimization — AWS Well-Architected provides a consistent approach for customers and partners to evaluate architectures, and implement designs that can scale over time. NorthBay Solutions architects specialize in recommendations based on WAR lenses to build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for your business. AWS Lens provides a way for you to consistently measure your architectures against best practices and identify areas for improvement to a specific type of workload such as SaaS, Analytics etc.

AWS Database Freedom is a unique program designed to assist qualifying customers migrating from traditional database engines to cloud-native ones on AWS. NorthBay has deep expertise in migrating workloads into AWS database technologies, with hundreds of successful migrations.

NorthBay AWS Cloud Migration Services

AWS Migration Readiness Assessment

A migration readiness assessment (MRA) is a process of gaining insights into how far an organization is on the cloud journey, understanding their current cloud-readiness strengths and weaknesses, then building an action plan to close identified gaps and enable them to migrate to the cloud quickly and at scale.

AWS Migration Acceleration Program

The AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) is a proven comprehensive offering that helps accelerate the cloud migration and modernization journey. It leverages a three-phased framework (Assess, Mobilize, Migrate and Modernize) in order to achieve a strong AWS cloud foundation while reducing initial costs.

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) helps organizations develop and execute efficient and effective plans for their cloud adoption journey. The guidance and best practices provided by the framework result in a comprehensive approach to cloud computing across an organization and throughout the IT lifecycle. Using the AWS CAF results in measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster and with less risk.

The AWS Service Delivery Program identifies and endorses APN Partners with the customer experience and a deep understanding of specific AWS services. From helping customers run serverless code with AWS Lambda, to deploying managed, secure, reliable, and high-performing Windows-based solutions on Amazon EC2 Windows, AWS Service Delivery Partners follow best practices to support unique use cases.

AWS Database Freedom is designed to assist qualifying customers migrating from traditional database engines to cloud-native ones on AWS. NorthBay has deep expertise in migrating workloads into AWS database technologies, with hundreds of successful migrations.