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
Enterprise data centre corridor representing AWS cloud infrastructure

How Analytics Hive helps

Microsoft Workloads on AWS

Analytics Hive helps organisations migrate and modernise 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

  1. 01

    Assess

    Understand your business objectives, current environment, risks and opportunities.

  2. 02

    Architect

    Design the right AWS target architecture and transformation roadmap.

  3. 03

    Build

    Implement the cloud, data, AI and security capabilities required.

  4. 04

    Secure

    Embed security, governance, resilience and compliance into the environment.

Business outcomes

What the business gains

Technical work only matters when it changes how the organisation performs.
  • 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

Migrate and modernise Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET and Microsoft applications on AWS.

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