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First Horizon, a subsidiary of the First Technology Group, is an Amazon Web Services Partner
AWS
About
Being the First Technology Group's AWS center of excellence, First Horizon is key to the First Technology Group’s multi-cloud strategy. We have a highly skilled team of experts to help you on your cloud journey, regardless of you current level of adoption.
Being part of the largest privately-owned IT company in South Africa, gives us access to world-leading brands to complement your AWS experience. Click on the button below to get your free migration assessment booked today.
Transform your business
Increase
Productivity
Reduce
Costs
Business
Innovation
Security &
Reliability
CLOUD ADOPTION JOURNEY
FIRST HORIZON'S
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Why migrate?
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Migration process
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7 Steps to cloud
migration
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Our services
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Value - Added
Services
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Why Migrate?
You can migrate any workload – applications, websites, databases, storage, physical or virtual servers – and even entire data centers from an on-premise environment, hosting facility, or other public cloud to AWS. Every step along the way, you can leverage AWS’s years of experience to build your organizational, operational, and technical capabilities, so that you can gain business benefits faster.
Improve
Workflow
Cost
Optimisation
Scalability
Flexibility
Innovation
Business
Continuity
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Migration Process
To transform your workload
RETAIN
RETIRE
REFACTOR
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REPURCHASE
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REPLATFORM
REHOST
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"THE 6 RS"
Migration
Strategy
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Our 7 steps
To a successful migration
Our proven migration process will minimize the risk and make your migration journey hassle-free. We work with our customers by conducting a cloud readiness assessment to identify applications that should, or could, be migrated to the cloud. We will assist in evaluating workloads with the AWS migration strategy best suited.
Our team of experts will manage your workload migration, after which we will conduct a well-architected review and remediate any high-risk issues identified.
Start with a single, meaningful workload to gain confidence in the AWS offering, and to assess cost-effectiveness and manageability. We will assist in cut-over and go-live procedures, and validate workloads during the commissioning process.
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ASSESS
Migration Assessment
We will conduct a free cloud readiness assessment to identify workloads that should or could be migrated to the cloud
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PLAN
Migration Planning
Our team of expert architects will assist you in:
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Evaluating workloads earmarked for migration
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Plan migration based to the AWS well architected design principles
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Decide on best migration tools for your workloads
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Develop detailed project plan
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REVIEW
Migration Review
Post-deployment we conduct an audit on the new instance, based on the AWS well-architected framework, covering the following topics:
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Operational Excellence
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Cost optimization
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Reliability
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Performance
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Security
We will assist with the mediation of any high risk items identified, funded up to $5000 per workload.
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MIGRATE
Workload Migration
Our team of experts will assist with planning your migration for any of the following migration strategies.
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Retire
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Retain / Revisit
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Re-purchase
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Re-platform
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Re-host
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Re-factor / Re-architect
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OPTIMIZE
Cloud Optimization
Our total cloud management solution will automate your:
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Total cost of ownership analysis
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Cost reduction
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Resource utilization
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Improved security posture
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Usage governance
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MONITOR
Proactive
Monitoring
We offer various monitoring solutions to effectively manage and monitor your workloads.
It ranges from fully outsourced remote management services, Security Event and Incident Management, or assisting with the implementation of products of your own choice.
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SUPPORT
Technical
Support
We offer a wide range of technical support:
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Billing solutions
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Cloud disaster recovery solutions
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Backup and archiving solutions
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Technical support
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Architecting services
Download our cloud adoption journey
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Our Services
With our extensive technical depth we are able to offer a wide variety of AWS services, consultation and technical support to our customers. Our services range from, but are not limited to, workload migration, solutions architecture, security and storage solutions, disaster recovery and business continuity to remote managed services and billing.
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Value-added Services
In addition to the standard AWS suite of products and services, we also offer a variety of value added services such as billing solutions with BBEEE benefits, specialist networking skills, advanced security services and our total cloud management suite.
