IBM-Powered ISV Workload Migration

The ISV Workload Migration Program (WMP) is an AWS program designed to help Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) migrate their software applications, platforms, and customer workloads to AWS. The program provides technical guidance, migration best practices, funding opportunities, and AWS resources to accelerate cloud adoption.

The goal is to help ISVs modernize applications, reduce migration risks, improve scalability, and increase customer adoption on AWS.

Key Features of the ISV Workload Migration Program

1. Migration Assessment and Planning

• Evaluates existing workloads and architecture.
• Identifies migration strategies and dependencies.
• Creates a migration roadmap with timelines and milestones.

2. AWS Funding Support

• Eligible partners may receive AWS funding credits.
• Helps offset migration and modernization costs.
• Encourages faster customer workload migrations.

3. Technical Guidance

• Access to AWS migration experts and architects.
• Best practices for rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring.
• Architecture reviews and optimization recommendations.

4. Migration Tools and Services

Supports AWS migration services such as:

• AWS Application Migration Service (MGN)
• AWS Database Migration Service (DMS)
• AWS Migration Hub

5. Workload Modernization

• Containerization using Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Serverless transformation using AWS Lambda.
• Database modernization and optimization.

6. Customer Migration Tracking

• Tracks migrated workloads and progress.
• Measures business outcomes and cloud adoption metrics.
• Supports reporting for program benefits.

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Advantages of the ISV Workload Migration Program

Faster Time-to-Cloud

• Accelerates migration projects through proven AWS methodologies.
• Reduces implementation timelines.

Reduced Migration Costs

• AWS funding and credits can lower project expenses.
• Minimizes infrastructure transition costs.

Improved Scalability

• Applications can scale on demand using AWS services.
• Better performance during peak workloads.

Enhanced Security and Compliance

• Leverages AWS security services and best practices.
• Supports industry compliance requirements.

Increased Customer Adoption

• Enables customers to move to AWS more efficiently.
• Improves customer satisfaction and retention.

Modernized Application Architecture

• Supports cloud-native transformation.
• Improves agility, resilience, and operational efficiency.

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Typical ISV Workload Migration Journey

1. Assessment -Analyze existing applications and infrastructure.
2. Planning-Define migration strategy and target AWS architecture.
3. Migration-Move applications, databases, and workloads to AWS.
4. Validation-Test performance, security, and functionality.
5. Optimization-Right-size resources and optimize costs.
6. Modernization-Adopt cloud-native services for long-term growth.

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The program is ideal for:

• SaaS providers migrating customer environments to AWS.
• Software vendors modernizing legacy applications.
• Partners looking to accelerate AWS cloud adoption.
• Organizations moving on-premises workloads to AWS.

Business Benefits for Partners

• Increased AWS consumption.
• Faster customer onboarding.
• Potential access to AWS migration funding.
• Stronger partnership alignment with AWS.
• Improved customer success outcomes.

ISV Workload Migration Program helps software vendors migrate and modernize workloads on AWS faster, with lower risk, technical support, and potential funding assistance.

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