AWS Cloud Migration
AWS provides a wide range of services that can replace traditional on-premises solutions, including compute, storage, networking, databases, Identity, and Access Management, Monitoring and logging, Security, and compliance, DevOps and CI/CD, Disaster Recovery and High Availability, and Remote Desktop / Virtual Desktops. 1. Compute On-prem AWS Replacement Physical servers EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) Hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V) EC2 with AMIs, AWS VM Import/Export, AWS Outposts Auto-scaling compute clusters EC2 Auto Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EKS, Lambda 2. Storage On-prem AWS Replacement SAN / NAS EBS (Elastic Block Store), EFS (Elastic File System), FSx (for Windows File Server or Lustre) Object storage appliances Amazon S3 Archival storage (tape libraries)Amazon S3 Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive Backup solutions AWS Backup, S3, Storage Gateway 3. Networking On-prem AWS Replacement Physical switches & routers VPC, Transit Gateway, Route Tables Load balancers Elastic Load Balancer (ALB, NLB, CLB) VPN appliances AWS VPN, Client VPN Firewalls AWS Network Firewall, Security Groups, NACLs DNS servers Amazon Route 53 4. Databases On-prem AWS Replacement SQL Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL) Amazon RDS (with Multi-AZ), Aurora NoSQL Databases DynamoDB Data warehousing (on-prem DBs with analytics add-ons) Amazon Redshift 5. Identity & Access Management On-prem AWS Replacement Active Directory AWS Directory Service (AD Connector / Microsoft AD) LDAP servers AWS Directory Service PKI / Certificate services AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) 6. Monitoring & Logging On-prem AWS Replacement Nagios / Zabbix / PRTG Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, X-Ray SIEM solutions Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, CloudTrail 7. Security & Compliance On-prem AWS Replacement Intrusion Detection / Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)AWS GuardDuty, AWS Network Firewall Vulnerability management AWS Inspector DLP appliances Macie (for S3 data classification) Security audits AWS Config, AWS Audit Manager 8. DevOps & CI/CD On-prem AWS Replacement Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy Artifact repositories AWS CodeArtifact Container registry Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry) 9. Disaster Recovery & High Availability On-prem AWS Replacement Offsite backup locations S3 Cross-region Replication, AWS Backup Cold/warm DR sites Multi-region deployments, CloudEndure Disaster Recovery 10. Remote Desktop / Virtual Desktops On-prem AWS Replacement Citrix, VMware Horizon Amazon WorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0

AWS provides a wide range of services that can replace traditional on-premises solutions, including compute, storage, networking, databases, Identity, and Access Management, Monitoring and logging, Security, and compliance, DevOps and CI/CD, Disaster Recovery and High Availability, and Remote Desktop / Virtual Desktops.
1. Compute
On-prem AWS Replacement
Physical servers EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
Hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V) EC2 with AMIs, AWS VM Import/Export, AWS Outposts
Auto-scaling compute clusters EC2 Auto Scaling, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, EKS, Lambda
2. Storage
On-prem AWS Replacement
SAN / NAS EBS (Elastic Block Store), EFS (Elastic File System), FSx (for Windows File Server or Lustre)
Object storage appliances Amazon S3
Archival storage (tape libraries)Amazon S3 Glacier, Glacier Deep Archive
Backup solutions AWS Backup, S3, Storage Gateway
3. Networking
On-prem AWS Replacement
Physical switches & routers VPC, Transit Gateway, Route Tables
Load balancers Elastic Load Balancer (ALB, NLB, CLB)
VPN appliances AWS VPN, Client VPN
Firewalls AWS Network Firewall, Security Groups, NACLs
DNS servers Amazon Route 53
4. Databases
On-prem AWS Replacement
SQL Databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MSSQL) Amazon RDS (with Multi-AZ), Aurora
NoSQL Databases DynamoDB
Data warehousing (on-prem DBs with analytics add-ons) Amazon Redshift
5. Identity & Access Management
On-prem AWS Replacement
Active Directory AWS Directory Service (AD Connector / Microsoft AD)
LDAP servers AWS Directory Service
PKI / Certificate services AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)
6. Monitoring & Logging
On-prem AWS Replacement
Nagios / Zabbix / PRTG Amazon CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, X-Ray
SIEM solutions Amazon GuardDuty, AWS Security Hub, CloudTrail
7. Security & Compliance
On-prem AWS Replacement
Intrusion Detection / Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)AWS GuardDuty, AWS Network Firewall
Vulnerability management AWS Inspector
DLP appliances Macie (for S3 data classification)
Security audits AWS Config, AWS Audit Manager
8. DevOps & CI/CD
On-prem AWS Replacement
Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
Artifact repositories AWS CodeArtifact
Container registry Amazon ECR (Elastic Container Registry)
9. Disaster Recovery & High Availability
On-prem AWS Replacement
Offsite backup locations S3 Cross-region Replication, AWS Backup
Cold/warm DR sites Multi-region deployments, CloudEndure Disaster Recovery
10. Remote Desktop / Virtual Desktops
On-prem AWS Replacement
Citrix, VMware Horizon Amazon WorkSpaces, AppStream 2.0