Migrate Your VMware Workloads to AWS Cloud
Move Off VMware. Move Onto AWS. Without the Downtime Drama.
If you’re running critical workloads on VMware and rethinking your infrastructure strategy, you’re not alone. Licensing changes, rising support costs, and the need for elastic, cloud-native infrastructure are pushing more enterprises to plan a VMware to AWS migration. At Electromech, we help you make that move — securely, predictably, and with minimal disruption to your business.
As an AWS Partner, we bring certified expertise, proven migration methodology, and hands-on support to take you from “still on VMware” to “running natively on AWS” — without the guesswork.
Why a VMware to AWS Migration Makes Sense Now
Escape rising licensing costs. VMware licensing changes have made on-premises virtualization significantly more expensive. AWS gives you a pay-as-you-go model instead.
Eliminate hardware refresh cycles. No more forklift upgrades, no more capital expenditure on servers, storage, and networking gear that ages out every few years.
Scale on demand. AWS lets you scale compute, storage, and networking up or down based on real business need, rather than provisioning for peak capacity you rarely use.
Improve resilience and disaster recovery. AWS’s global infrastructure and managed services make multi-AZ and multi-region resilience far easier to achieve than in a traditional VMware data center. Our Disaster Recovery & Backup solutions build on this foundation.
Modernize at your own pace. You don’t have to re-architect everything on day one. You can lift-and-shift first, then modernize workload by workload once they’re running on AWS.
Our VMware to AWS Migration Approach
We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all migrations. Every VMware environment has its own dependencies, compliance needs, and risk tolerance, so we build a VMware to AWS migration path around your actual environment — not a generic checklist.
1. Assess
We start with a detailed discovery of your VMware environment — VMs, dependencies, storage, networking, licensing, and application interdependencies. This gives us a clear picture of what you’re running and how it all connects, as part of our broader Cloud Readiness Assessment process.
2. Plan
Based on the assessment, we group your workloads into migration waves and recommend the right strategy for each — rehost, replatform, or refactor (more on this below). We also map out your target AWS architecture, including VPC design, security groups, IAM roles, and cost projections.
3. Migrate
Using AWS-native migration tooling, we replicate your VMware VMs to AWS with minimal production impact. Cutover windows are planned and tested in advance, so there are no surprises on migration day.
4. Validate
Post-migration, we run functional, performance, and security validation on every workload before it’s handed back to your team for business-as-usual operation.
5. Optimize
Once workloads are stable on AWS, we help you right-size instances, adopt managed services where it makes sense, and identify opportunities to modernize — turning a “lift and shift” into a genuine cloud transformation over time.
Migration Strategies We Support
Rehost (Lift-and-Shift) Move VMs to AWS largely as-is, using tools like AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN), for the fastest path off VMware with the lowest risk and re-engineering effort.
Replatform Make targeted optimizations during migration — for example, moving a self-managed database to Amazon RDS, or a file server to Amazon FSx or S3 — to reduce operational overhead without a full application rewrite.
Refactor / Re-architect For workloads that would benefit most from cloud-native design, we help you re-architect towards containers, serverless, or managed services, unlocking the full elasticity and cost benefits of AWS.
Most enterprises use a mix of all three across their VM inventory, and we help you decide which strategy fits which workload — see how this played out in our Windows Workload on AWS EC2 case study.
What’s Included in Our VMware Migration Service
- VMware environment discovery and dependency mapping
- Migration wave planning and scheduling
- AWS landing zone and network architecture design (VPC, subnets, security groups, IAM)
- VM replication and cutover using AWS-native migration tooling
- Application and database migration support
- Post-migration performance and security validation
- Cost optimization and right-sizing recommendations
- Ongoing managed services and support, if needed, after migration
Why Electromech
- AWS Partner with hands-on migration delivery experience, not just certifications on paper
- Deep bench of AWS and Red Hat certified engineers who understand both the source (VMware) and target (AWS) environments
- Migration plans built around minimizing business disruption, with realistic cutover windows and rollback plans
- Support that continues after go-live — optimization, monitoring, and managed services, not a one-time handoff
Ready to Start Your VMware to AWS Migration?
Every VMware environment is different, and the right migration path depends on your specific workloads, dependencies, and business priorities. Let’s talk through where you are today and map out what a VMware to AWS migration could look like for your organization.