Achieve optimised cost and reduced risk at the start of your cloud journey
Many organisations struggle to comprehend the impact of cloud migration on their enterprise licensing from a compliance and financial perspective, impacting business case ROI and further technology investment, and the accumulation of non-compliance risk.
Organisations looking to move workloads into the cloud need help to understand the migration journey and the potential cost benefits.
Version 1’s AWS Optimisation & License Assessment
The AWS OLA process is designed to help customers start their journey to the cloud, and helps customers answer the following three questions:
- What does my on-premises estate look like today and what can I migrate to the cloud?
- How much will it cost me in the cloud? What are the potential savings/benefits?
- How should I go about migrating to the cloud?
A key element to costs is proprietary licensing models from vendors such as Microsoft and Oracle.
The OLA provides guidance on how to make use of existing on-premises licensing as well as identifying potential license savings after moving to the cloud.
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First Step of your Cloud Migration Project
As an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, Version 1 is certified by AWS to support customers across all AWS cloud migration phases; Assess, Mobilise, and Migrate & Modernise.
As part of the Assess phase, our AWS Optimisation & License Assessment (OLA) for Microsoft and Oracle is the first step in your cloud migration project. This quick to deliver assessment delivers insights, deployment choices and potential cost savings across AWS’s flexible licensing options ensuring the right license posture decisions are taken at the start of your migration project.
This license assessment includes the following deliverables:
Consult
Assess
Analyse
Report
What benefits does this deliver?
Steppingstone to Cloud
Clarity on License Position
Cost Optimisation & Avoidance
License Flexibility
Cloud & License Experts
License Advice & Guidance

Our Partnerships
In conjunction with Version 1’s AWS Optimisation & License Assessment for Enterprise Workloads, our AWS and License experts can help you evaluate AWS as an efficient way to manage your infrastructure and licenses. Read more about how Version 1 migrated Martin Currie’s Windows Workload to AWS to enable agility and innovation.
For more information, contact us for an initial complimentary remote consultation.
Aligned with AWS Programs; OLA Assessment, Windows Modernisation Program, MAP for Windows, Windows Rapid Migration Program (WRMP).
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