Comprehensive Cloud Migration Readiness and Cost Analysis Platform for Enterprise Infrastructure

The client operates an on-premises infrastructure with significant risks associated with equipment failure, potential downtime, and high maintenance costs. They need a detailed assessment to understand migration pathways, associated costs, and architectural changes required to enhance availability and reduce operational expenditures. The current environment comprises a substantial number of physical servers, with complex dependencies that require thorough analysis before migrating to a public cloud environment.

A large enterprise with extensive on-premises infrastructure seeking to evaluate and plan cloud migration strategies.

• Develop a comprehensive assessment tool to evaluate migration strategies across multiple cloud service providers.
• Generate detailed cost estimates and resource requirements for each migration option.
• Identify and analyze potential migration risks and architectural change impacts.
• Provide recommendations for migration approaches (e.g., Lift & Shift, Re-architecting), hybrid solutions, and proof-of-concept options.
• Enable the client to make informed decisions regarding the feasibility, scope, and timing of cloud migration, with a focus on cost reduction, risk mitigation, and high availability.

• Data collection module for comprehensive inventory of existing servers, licenses, configurations, SLAs, and backup schemes.
• Migration path verification to identify supported paths and necessary environment changes.
• Cost estimation engine that compares expenses across multiple cloud providers, including hardware, licensing, support, and management costs.
• Risk assessment component to identify potential migration challenges and dependencies.
• Strategy recommendation engine supporting various migration models such as Lift & Shift and Refactor.
• Team skill set and resource planning tool to define required cloud environment management capabilities.
• Reporting dashboard presenting detailed analyses, migration options, costs, architectural implications, and hybrid solutions.

• Enterprise infrastructure management systems to extract server and configuration data
• Cloud provider APIs for cost and migration path validation
• Backup and SLA management tools

• Scalability to support large enterprise environments with thousands of servers
• Performance to deliver analysis reports within acceptable timeframes for large datasets
• Security measures to protect sensitive infrastructure and cost data
• Impartiality in provider analysis and recommendations
• User-friendly interface for diverse stakeholders including technical and managerial staff

By implementing this comprehensive assessment system, the client will gain clear insights into the optimal migration pathways, associated costs, and architectural changes necessary. This will enable informed decision-making, reduce migration-related risks, and potentially lower total migration and operational costs, ultimately leading to improved system availability and reduced maintenance efforts.