Cloud Readiness & Licensing Optimization Plan
Can I migrate an entire workload to AWS? Unlock agility and growth while reducing complexity and cost. TekStream provides a comprehensive, license-agnostic review of your workloads — on-prem, in the cloud or both — and converts real usage data into a rightsized AWS environment.
The outcome: an actionable, ROI-backed roadmap that eliminates waste, safeguards compliance and enables rapid migration and long-term modernization.
The Challenges AWS Cloud Migration Solves
IT and finance leaders face mounting pressure to cut costs, improve performance and avoid disruptive vendor audits. TekStream helps pinpoint where inefficiencies and risks truly lie.
Control Rising Costs
Licensing and infrastructure spend can quickly become unsustainable. TekStream highlights where you’re overpaying and identifies opportunities to reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
Improve Performance
Workloads that are overprovisioned or poorly aligned with business needs drag down efficiency. We ensure your environment is rightsized and optimized for peak performance.
Escape Vendor Lock-In
Escalating prices, aggressive audits and strained vendor relationships are costly distractions. Discover a clear path to reduce dependency on high-cost vendors and regain flexibility.
Outcomes You Can Expect From AWS Assessments
Turn challenges into opportunities. TekStream translates inefficiencies into future-ready advantages, giving you a clear roadmap to cut waste, improve performance and plan with confidence.
Optimize Cloud Spend
Eliminate waste by uncovering overlicensed and overprovisioned workloads. TekStream aligns your environment with AWS services based on real usage, not assumptions.
Rightsize Your Cloud Architecture
Every workload is unique. We design a fit-for-purpose AWS configuration that boosts performance while lowering total cost of ownership.
Safeguard Compliance
Vendor audits are disruptive and expensive. Identify hidden licensing gaps, allowing you to proactively protect your business.
Accelerate Migration Planning
Move faster with confidence. We provide migration timelines, AWS funding opportunities and projected savings to guide smarter decisions.
Future-Proof Growth
Your cloud should evolve with your business. The insights modernize workloads using AWS-native services that support long-term agility and innovation.
Backed by AWS Expertise
As an AWS Advanced Tier Partner with deep licensing and migration experience, TekStream delivers proven results and measurable business outcomes.
One Comprehensive Review = Better Results
Hyperscalers or point-solution vendors may only be able to analyze one piece of your environment, but TekStream evaluates your entire licensing and workload footprint. By reviewing Oracle, Microsoft, VMware and storage together, we deliver a single, comprehensive view that uncovers hidden risks and opportunities — translating them into a more accurate AWS roadmap.
From Insight to Action
What’s in an AWS License Assessment?
Your specialized assessment goes far beyond surface-level analysis. TekStream combines deep discovery with practical recommendations, giving you the visibility to uncover inefficiencies, the clarity to act with confidence and the business case to align your organization on the path forward.
See the Whole Picture
Every successful migration begins with visibility. TekStream reviews your entire environment to uncover blind spots from unused entitlements and overlapping contracts to gaps in compliance and misaligned spend. By surfacing where usage and costs don’t align, we establish the baseline you need to plan effectively and make smarter, cost-conscious decisions.
Turn Insights Into Savings
Discovery alone isn’t enough; it must lead to action. TekStream maps your workloads and licenses to AWS services that fit real usage patterns, not assumptions. The result is a future-state plan that trims unnecessary costs, rightsizes licenses for current needs, and uncovers opportunities to modernize efficiently without overspending.
Migrate With Confidence
Cloud migration requires more than technical expertise. Our assessment produces detailed scopes, effort ranges and projected savings, along with access to AWS funding programs. With clear budgets and timelines in hand, you can secure executive buy-in, allocate resources wisely and accelerate time to value.
Stay Ahead of Vendor Audit Risk
Unexpected vendor audits don’t disappear in the cloud. TekStream helps you identify and mitigate potential risks by consolidating exposure across vendors and integrating compliance practices into your migration strategy. This proactive approach reduces the likelihood of costly disruptions and provides your team with long-term peace of mind.
One Case for Enterprise-Wide ROI
Technology decisions ripple across the business. TekStream consolidates findings into a single, enterprise-wide business case, featuring quantified savings, projected ROI and modernization benefits. The result? IT and business leaders aligned around a clear roadmap that demonstrates the full value of migrating with AWS.
How the TekStream AWS License Assessment Works
Every assessment follows a proven four-step approach that takes you from discovery to a clear, actionable business case. By combining technical analysis with business alignment, TekStream ensures your migration plan is optimized for cost savings, compliance and long-term agility.
The Deliverables: Your Action Plan For AWS Optimization and Savings
Licensing Plan
A detailed assessment of your current license position and a future-state plan for AWS. We highlight potential savings and surpluses with specific dollar amounts and map compliance risks before migration.
Migration Budgetary Estimate
A scoped estimate of the time, effort and resources required for migration, including projected AWS funding opportunities such as the MAP program.
High-Level Technical Plan
An overview of AWS configurations that support your environment, from RDS and EC2 to Aurora or Postgres. Includes directional cost estimates for AWS subscriptions.
Business Case and ROI
An enterprise-wide business case with projected savings, ROI and modernization opportunities, giving IT and business leaders a clear and unified rationale for migration.
Migration Strategies Informed by Your License Assessment
An AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment determines which migration strategy is most suitable for each workload. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach. Instead, it highlights the best path forward based on speed, cost and modernization goals.
Rehost
(Lift and Shift)
The fastest way to move workloads to AWS with minimal change. Rehosting reduces migration time and disruption, creating a quick win while laying the foundation for future optimization.
Replatform
Retain your core architecture while upgrading specific components for AWS. This approach strikes a balance between speed and efficiency, enhancing performance without the complexity of a full rebuild.
Refactor
Reimagine workloads with AWS-native services to unlock agility and long-term innovation. Refactoring takes more upfront investment but delivers the greatest benefits for critical workloads.
Hybrid/
Cloud-Native
Adopt a phased approach by combining on-prem systems with AWS solutions. Hybrid models reduce risk, support compliance and let you modernize at a pace that fits your business.
Proven Expertise in
Migration and Modernization
Every engagement requires a partner who understands both licensing complexity and cloud transformation. TekStream brings decades of cross-platform experience and deep AWS credentials to ensure your assessment delivers actionable results, helping you modernize with confidence.
- Proven track record of helping enterprises lower TCO, improve compliance and accelerate innovation
- AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner with Migration, Oracle Migration and Government Services Competencies
- Specialized expertise in Oracle, Microsoft, VMware and hybrid environments
- 100% certified delivery team with decades of cloud and database experience
AWS License Assessment FAQs
An AWS License Assessment, now formally known as an AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA), is an analysis of your current and on-prem cloud environments to determine opportunities for cost savings and efficiencies. Results from an AWS OLA can uncover gaps, resource utilization and software dependencies that provide a rightsized cloud environment for a particular workload or application.
Understanding the actual compute needs and software licensing entitlements for migrating business-critical workloads to the cloud is imperative to ensuring success. Moving workloads can trigger costly vendor audits. An AWS OLA provides you with clarity to understand your migration options, giving you a preview of what you can save and what configuration works best for your operations.
An AWS License Assessment takes 2-3 weeks to complete.
To complete a comprehensive AWS License Assessment, your AWS consulting partner may request data from:
- AWS Migration Evaluator
- Spreadsheet of your database inventory
- An assessment questionnaire to understand the workload or application needs
- AWR Miner Script to understand current performance against future needs
- Option packs usage statistics to understand which database options from Oracle are running
- Licensing details to understand renewals, seats, etc.
An AWS License Assessment typically results in cost savings of up to 50%. This is possible because the assessment often identifies opportunities to consolidate and rightsize your license environment to match actual compute usage.
Yes, you will need to work with a AWS license assessment partner. AWS provides a marketplace of certified AWS License Assessment partners, like TekStream, to help facilitate the execution and implementation of your AWS License Assessment plan.
An AWS License Assessment is flexible to your organization’s needs and can involve one or several vendors, depending on your workload(s). Covered software/workloads include Microsoft SQL Server, Windows Servers on Amazon EC2, VMware-based workloads, Oracle Database and Oracle business applications, and additional storage applications.
The benefits of an AWS License Assessment for enterprises include:
- Cost Savings: Rightsizing the license environment typically results in significant savings by reducing unused instances and eliminating overprovisioned workloads. The result is reduced software spend and better use of underutilized resources.
- Reduced Complexity: Reviewing your licenses across on-prem, cloud or hybrid environments provides opportunities to streamline your infrastructure by mapping your current and future infrastructure to AWS-optimized services.
- Increased Performance: Rightsizing workloads optimizes resource allocation to actual demand, improving performance. For example, performance can be enhanced by eliminating an underutilized server or replacing outdated hardware.
- Flexibility and Scalability: Migrating mission-critical workloads to the cloud enables you to modernize how they operate with agility in mind. By taking advantage of the elastic infrastructure AWS provides, you can scale compute and license capacity as business needs evolve.
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