Accelerate Storage Migration Planning with AWS Transform Assessments

Cloud migration begins with clarity. Before moving workloads, organizations need a precise understanding of their on-premises infrastructure, cost structure, and modernization potential. Migration assessments provide this foundation—enabling data-driven decisions and identifying opportunities to optimize infrastructure and reduce costs, potentially by up to 60%.

As an official partner of Amazon Web Services, Softprom helps organizations accelerate migration planning using AWS Transform assessments—an AI-powered approach to infrastructure discovery, cost modeling, and modernization strategy.

Eliminating Guesswork with AWS Transform

AWS Transform assessments use AI-driven analysis to generate comprehensive Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) business cases. Instead of relying on estimates or manual spreadsheets, organizations receive:

• Detailed infrastructure inventory analysis
• Rightsizing recommendations
• Target AWS service mapping
• Migration opportunity insights
• Cost comparison between on-premises and AWS environments

The assessment supports multiple data input formats, including:

• NetApp Data Infrastructure Insights (DII) exports
• Migration Evaluator (ME) outputs
• RVTools files
• AWS Transform custom templates

In addition, AWS Transform assessments determine eligibility for AWS funding programs and incentives such as the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).

Softprom works with customers to prepare, validate, and interpret these assessments—ensuring alignment with both technical and financial objectives.

Expanded Capability: Comprehensive Storage Workload Analysis

AWS Transform has expanded its capabilities to include in-depth storage workload analysis, enabling organizations to evaluate detached storage infrastructure alongside compute environments.

The assessment now covers:

• Storage Area Network (SAN)
• Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• File servers
• Object storage systems
• Virtualized environments

Given that storage can account for up to 45% of total migration opportunities, this enhanced capability is critical for building a complete modernization strategy.

AWS Transform maps discovered storage workloads to optimized AWS services, including:

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for scalable object storage
• Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) for block storage workloads
• Amazon FSx for high-performance and specialized file systems

This structured mapping ensures right-sized, cost-efficient target architectures in AWS.

How to Launch a Combined Compute and Storage Assessment

Starting an AWS Transform assessment is straightforward:

1. Initiate an assessment job via the AWS Transform interface.
2. Upload server and storage data using supported templates or third-party exports.
3. Select the target AWS Region.
4. Allow AWS Transform to analyze compute and storage environments.

The platform generates:

• Detailed infrastructure discovery results
• Service recommendations
• Cost optimization insights
• TCO comparison models
• Executive-ready summaries

Users can interact directly with the AWS Transform AI agent to:

• Understand why specific services were recommended
• Explore optimization assumptions
• Clarify migration steps
• Refine strategy based on business constraints

Executive-Ready Outputs for Stakeholders

AWS Transform provides exportable deliverables to support internal decision-making:

• Comprehensive PDF assessment reports
• Executive business case presentations (PPT format)
• XLS exports with discovered inventory and AWS target mappings

These outputs simplify board-level discussions, budget approvals, and roadmap alignment.

Organizations can revisit existing assessments, refine inputs, or launch new analysis jobs as infrastructure evolves—ensuring continuous optimization throughout the migration journey.

Why Work with Softprom

While AWS Transform delivers powerful automation and AI-driven insights, successful migration planning requires architectural validation, governance alignment, and financial modeling expertise.

Softprom supports customers with:

• Assessment preparation and data validation
• Interpretation of TCO models
• Architecture design and modernization strategy
• MAP program advisory
• Migration roadmap development
• Ongoing optimization after migration

Whether you are beginning your cloud journey or refining an existing modernization plan, AWS Transform assessments—combined with Softprom expertise—provide the analytical clarity required to accelerate migration outcomes and maximize ROI on AWS.