AWS Application Discovery Service

To assess on-premises infrastructure for potential migration to AWS.

Functionality

• Discovers on-premises servers, applications, and dependencies.
• Collects configuration and performance data.
• Provides insights into application dependencies, resource utilization, and potential migration strategies.
• Helps estimate migration costs and plan migration timelines.

Use Cases

-Migration planning and assessment -Application dependency mapping -Cost estimation for cloud migration

Analogy

Imagine you're moving to a new house.

You have a lot of stuff: furniture, electronics, and boxes of belongings. You need to figure out what you have, how much it weighs, and how it all fits together.

AWS Application Discovery Service is like a virtual moving company. It goes through your current house (your on-premises data center) and creates a detailed inventory of everything:

What you have: It identifies all your servers, databases, and applications. How they're connected: It maps out how they're linked together. How much they use: It measures their resource usage.