A chunk of what you pay for is idle
Workloads spun up for a project that ended, sitting there quietly billing every month.
VMware → AWSMove with clarity,
Move with clarity,
not complexity
Your VMware renewal is the one moment each year you are genuinely allowed to ask whether your workloads are still in the right home. Cloudek gives you an honest read on the numbers before you sign.
- 30 min
- To start the assessment
- $0
- Cost and no obligation
- 4 weeks
- Assess to migration plan
What teams find when they actually look
When a VMware renewal lands, most people pay it. Not because they have checked the alternatives, but because the renewal arrives faster than the time needed to question it. When teams do pause, the same three things surface.
The year on year increase crept up
Steeper than anyone remembered agreeing to, one renewal at a time.
DR has not actually been tested
The disaster recovery everyone assumes is solid has not been proven in a long while.
Renewal checklist
Before you renew VMware, ask these five questions
If you cannot answer all five with confidence, the renewal number on the page does not reflect what the business actually needs. That gap is where the real cost hides.
- 1What is our true year on year increase?
- 2Which workloads are idle or oversized?
- 3Is our disaster recovery actually tested?
- 4Could AWS lower our annual run cost?
- 5What is our exit cost and timeline?
A complimentary VMware to AWS migration readiness assessment
A short, no obligation review of your current estate. No slide deck, no pressure, and the numbers are yours to keep either way.
- Where money is leaking today
- Your current run cost side by side with an equivalent AWS setup
- A plain picture of how the move would work, step by step, with no jargon
- An honest verdict, including when staying put is the smarter call
What it is not
- Not a sales pitch dressed as a workshop.
- Not a generic brochure or a vendor deck.
- Not a commitment to migrate anything.
- Not one sided. If AWS is not right for you, we say so. That single habit builds more trust than any pitch.
Bring your renewal quote. The comparison is sharpest when we can model against the number you were actually given.
AWS OLAStep 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4
The assessment is backed by an AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment
An OLA is an AWS run analysis of what your environment actually consumes, not what it was provisioned for. It replaces opinion with telemetry, so the cost comparison in your business case is evidence you can defend.
Collect
A lightweight agentless collector runs across your VMware estate for a short period, gathering CPU, memory, storage and licensing telemetry.
Analyse
Actual utilisation, not provisioned size, is modelled against right sized AWS instances, storage classes and licensing options.
Compare
You receive a data backed cost comparison of the status quo versus AWS, including BYOL and license included scenarios.
Decide
The findings feed a migration business case and a wave plan you can take to your board with confidence.
No cost
Delivered with AWS as part of the assessment
Agentless
Low touch collection with no agents on guest workloads
Evidence based
Right sizing modelled on real utilisation data
Four reasons this conversation is worth having
Assess before the renewal locks in cost
A renewal signed on autopilot fixes your run rate for another twelve months. Price the alternative while you still have a choice.
Move to a more resilient operating model
Ageing hardware and untested DR are the quiet risks. AWS gives you tested recovery, backup and multi AZ resilience as standard practice.
Start with a structured readiness assessment
No roadmap and unknown dependencies is what keeps teams still. We map the estate, the dependencies and the sequence first.
Migration is step one, not the destination
Landing zone, governance, backup, resilience and cost optimisation follow so the environment keeps improving after cutover.
How it works
From first call to first migration wave
- Week 1
Discovery call
30 minutes. We understand the estate, the renewal date and what good looks like for you.
- Weeks 2 to 3
Readiness assessment
Data collection and AWS OLA analysis across cost, dependencies, resilience and licensing.
- Week 4
Findings and business case
A plain English report: current spend, AWS comparison, risks, and a recommended path with an honest verdict.
- Weeks 5 to 8
Mobilise
Landing zone, security guardrails and the first migration wave, with managed cloud and optimisation to follow.
The things people say before they look
Book the assessment
Get an honest read on your numbers before you sign
Tell us a little about your estate and renewal timing. A Cloudek migration specialist will come back within one business day with two times to choose from.
- 30 minute kick off call
- Complimentary and no obligation
- Findings and numbers are yours to keep