VSO's Cloud Accelerator for Amazon Web Services offers the following seven key features.

1. Discovery and Assessment:

• Perform an in-depth analysis of your existing infrastructure to identify dependencies, performance bottlenecks, and potential migration challenges.
• Assess the readiness of your workloads for migration to AWS, providing insights into the optimal migration strategy for each service.

2. Migration Planning and Design:

• Develop a tailored migration plan based on your business requirements and AWS best practices.
• Design a scalable and cost-efficient AWS architecture that maximizes the benefits of AWS services while ensuring high availability and security.

3. Data and Application Migration:

• Migrate your data, applications, and workloads to AWS using proven methodologies and migration tools.
• Leverage AWS Database Migration Service (DMS), AWS Server Migration Service (SMS), and other migration tools to streamline the migration process.

4. Infrastructure Deployment and Configuration:

• Deploy the required AWS infrastructure components, such as virtual private clouds (VPCs), subnets, security groups, and more.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code to bring automation, consistency, and version control to deployed infrastructure.

5. Testing and Validation:

• Validate the migrated services by conducting thorough testing to ensure functional equivalence and performance benchmarks.
• Identify and address any issues or discrepancies to guarantee a seamless transition and minimize post-migration disruptions.

6. Optimization and Cost Management:

• Optimize your AWS environment by leveraging AWS Well-Architected Framework principles and implementing cost-effective resource allocation strategies.
• Enable cost monitoring and governance mechanisms to maintain control over your cloud expenditure and identify potential savings opportunities.

**7. Post-Migration Support and Training: **

• Provide ongoing support to address any post-migration challenges, ensuring a successful transition to the AWS environment.
• Offer training and knowledge transfer sessions to upskill your team on AWS services and best practices for managing your migrated workloads.