AWS Migration Strategy Workshop
A complimentary, half-day working session where a senior AWS engineer helps you think through how to sequence a migration or modernization decision — before you commit to an approach. You bring the workload inventory and the constraints; we work through migration patterns, a wave-sequencing sketch, and the open risks, live, on a shared whiteboard. You leave with clarity, not a document — the written, validated migration plan is a separate, scoped AWS Migration Roadmap engagement. This workshop is independent of AWS’s own Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) program; see the disambiguation below.
Complimentary, request-based — not schedulable from a live calendar today. No written deliverable in the free session.
Is this the right session?
This workshop fits when you have a defined migration or modernization decision — a specific workload, application, or portfolio you're planning to move or replatform onto AWS, not open-ended curiosity about "should we go cloud." Your team will own the resulting AWS accounts and repositories afterward — this session hands off to you; it isn't a lead-in to managed operations. You can bring a decision-maker and an engineer who knows the estate to the same half-day block, because the session runs as a working conversation, not a briefing one person can relay afterward.
It's the wrong fit if…
You're looking for a free written migration plan, a scanner run against your accounts, or a fast yes/no on a vendor decision unrelated to AWS. If your question is smaller or more open-ended — "where do we even start" — the Free AWS Assessment is the lighter front door; it can route you here once a defined decision emerges.
What the session covers
The half-day runs as four movements, all live and whiteboard-driven. First, a current-state walkthrough: you describe or sketch the workload, its data stores, its dependencies, and the business driver behind the move. Nothing is collected or retained.
Second, a migration pattern discussion, by source platform — the right pattern depends heavily on where a workload is coming from:
- VMware and on-premises estates — the strategic fork is usually rehost onto EC2 (fastest, defers redesign) versus a broader replatform that also resolves a licensing or hardware end-of-life problem. Network and identity dependencies (AD, DNS, firewall rules) tend to be the hidden critical path, not the compute move itself.
- Azure-sourced workloads — Azure AD/Entra ID and Azure-native networking constructs (VNets, NSGs, Azure Firewall) don't map one-to-one onto AWS Organizations, VPCs, and IAM; the session surfaces which identity and network decisions have to be made early versus which can be deferred past cutover.
- GCP-sourced workloads — IAM structure (projects/folders vs. accounts/OUs) and networking (Shared VPC, Cloud NAT equivalents) are the areas that most often get underestimated in a first pass.
- Database and data-store moves — treated as their own sequencing question regardless of source platform, because a database's migration path is usually the pacing item for everything downstream of it.
Third, a wave-sequencing sketch: which pieces move first (typically driven by dependency count, blast radius if something goes wrong, and how reversible each step is), where a quick-win wave builds momentum versus where a riskier dependency has to be pulled forward and de-risked early, and where a rollback path needs to exist before a wave is allowed to proceed. You leave with a sketch of this logic applied to your estate — photographed or screenshotted by you if you want to keep it; Uptempo does not produce a file.
Fourth, risk and decision-gap surfacing: the session closes by naming, out loud, the open risks and the decisions your team still needs to make before a migration can be scoped and dated — a spoken list, not a scored risk register.
Roughly 3.5–4.0 facilitated hours, single session, Pacific business hours (Monday–Friday, 8:00 AM–6:00 PM PT).
What we can see, and what we don't produce
No AWS account access. This is whiteboard- and conversation-driven. Uptempo does not request a role, console access, credentials, or any artifact from your account during the free session — nothing is collected or stored. What you bring is a current-state sketch, the business driver, and known constraints — shared on screen during the session itself, not submitted in advance. Do not send credentials, account IDs, logs, or NDA-covered material through the request path.
This session does not produce a written migration plan, runbook, wave-chart file, or business case; no cost model or savings estimate; no landing-zone build, code, or Terraform; no account access, ever, in the free session; no managed-operations relationship, ongoing on-call, or SLA; no compliance or audit assurance; and no commitment to a timeline or price. One complimentary workshop per organization — a bounded acquisition investment, not a standing free-consulting service.
AWS Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) — this is not that
AWS operates its own Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA), a program delivered by AWS and its partners, sometimes tied to AWS funding programs. The AWS Migration Strategy Workshop described on this page is independent of that program — it is not an AWS-branded engagement, it carries no AWS partner-tier affiliation, and it is not a substitute for or a path into AWS's own MRA. If you are specifically looking for AWS's MRA, that is a program AWS or an AWS partner delivers directly, not this page.
From workshop to paid depth: AWS Migration Roadmap
The workshop is diagnostic and complimentary; the written, validated plan is a separate paid product with its own name so the two are never confused. The AWS Migration Roadmap is a scoped Consulting engagement (fixed price per SOW, no standard public price) that typically includes a validated workload inventory, a wave plan sequenced against dependencies and risk, landing-zone prerequisites the waves depend on, and a cutover and rollback approach for each wave. It is scoped individually after the workshop, or independently if you arrive with the inventory already in hand — see Consulting for how engagements are scoped, priced, and delivered. There is no separate public price for it here or anywhere else on the site.
This is a request, not a booking
This workshop is not available through the one-hour Free AWS Assessment calendar, and it does not have its own live scheduling link yet. The verified Cal.com event on /book/ is identity-bound to the one-hour Free AWS Assessment and is duration-wrong for a half-day session. Requesting a workshop time works two ways: through the contact form (select "AWS Migration Strategy Workshop") or by emailing hello@uptempocloud.com directly. Uptempo replies with available half-day windows after confirming fit. Because this is a half-day commitment, either side can reschedule by email before a time is confirmed — no fee, no obligation.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as AWS’s Migration Readiness Assessment?
No. AWS operates its own Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA), delivered by AWS and its partners. This workshop is Uptempo’s own independent session, with no AWS partner-tier affiliation.
Can I book this on the calendar right now?
Not yet. This workshop is request-based — submit a request through the contact form or email, and Uptempo replies with available half-day windows after confirming fit.
What do we get in writing?
Nothing, in the free session. You leave with a whiteboard sketch you can photograph yourself. A written, validated migration plan is the separate, paid AWS Migration Roadmap engagement.
Do you need AWS account access for the workshop?
No. The session is whiteboard- and conversation-driven from what you show and say. Uptempo never requests a role, console access, or credentials for this free session.
Where this connects
AWS Security Posture Assessment · AWS Cost and Cloud Health Assessment · Assessments hub · Consulting · Support and Advisory
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