AWS Cloud & Infrastructure
Modernise My Microsoft Environment
Migrate and modernise Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET and Microsoft applications on AWS.
The challenge
Where organisations get stuck
Your organisation relies on Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET or Microsoft applications that are becoming expensive or difficult to modernise.
- Infrastructure dependency
- High maintenance costs
- Limited scalability
- Upgrade complexity
- Operational risk

How Analytics Hive helps
Microsoft Workloads on AWS
What the engagement includes
- Windows Server migration
- SQL Server migration
- .NET workloads
- Active Directory
- Application migration
- Application modernisation
- Hybrid Microsoft architecture
- Cost and licensing optimisation
Expected outcome
From legacy Microsoft infrastructure to modern, scalable Microsoft workloads on AWS.
What we deliver
Tangible outputs, not slideware
Typical artefacts from a cloud & infrastructure engagement, tailored to the scope we agree with you.
- Current-state assessment and target AWS architecture
- Multi-account landing zone and governance model
- Migration roadmap with wave planning and cutover runbooks
- Infrastructure as Code baselines and deployment pipelines
- Resilience, backup and disaster recovery design
- Cost optimisation and FinOps operating model
- Operational runbooks, monitoring and knowledge transfer
Our approach
How the work runs
- 01
Assess
Understand your business objectives, current environment, risks and opportunities.
- 02
Architect
Design the right AWS target architecture and transformation roadmap.
- 03
Build
Implement the cloud, data, AI and security capabilities required.
- 04
Secure
Embed security, governance, resilience and compliance into the environment.
Business outcomes
What the business gains
- 01
Reduced infrastructure dependency
- 02
Lower maintenance overhead
- 03
Improved scalability
- 04
Simpler upgrades
AWS context
Built on AWS-native capability
Cloud & Infrastructure work at Analytics Hive is delivered on AWS and aligned to the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
- AWS Organizations and Control Tower
- Amazon VPC, Transit Gateway and Direct Connect
- Amazon EC2, ECS, EKS and AWS Lambda
- Amazon RDS, Aurora and Amazon S3
- AWS CloudFormation, CDK and Terraform on AWS
- Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Backup and Elastic Disaster Recovery
- AWS Cost Explorer, Budgets and Compute Optimizer
Built around enterprise priorities
Security-first
Protect workloads, identities and data with controls designed in from the start.
Scalable
Architect AWS environments that grow with demand instead of constraining it.
Resilient
Design for availability, continuity and tested recovery, not best-effort uptime.
Cost-conscious
Optimise infrastructure spend without compromising performance or resilience.
Next step
Modernise My Microsoft Environment
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