AWS Server Migration Service [EOL] vs Velostrata comparison

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AWS Server Migration Servic...

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9.2

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0.0

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8.6

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Ashish Diwan

Senior Web Developer at freelancer

A cloud solution for operating and managing the AWS Server, EC2, and S3 bucket

Some of the functionalities are increasing day by day. Some points are yet to be explored according to the requirements. While working with others, I will get some insights and create more challenges to improve. It will be helpful for me to enhance my skills in the AWS server mode because different challenges make a person perfect. AWS is a very good server with flexibility and 99% uptime. Most applications and e-commerce are also using AWS servers. We always advise using the AWS server because it is a very good server with 99% uptime. We can start with the initial level at the initial price. We can upgrade the AWS server. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

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it_user713811

Product Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Because of its streaming-based approach, caching and WAN optimizations, the software can support mass migration of many applications simultaneously.

The solution implements three features which are of great value: * With Velostrata’s streaming-based approach to migration, I am able to start running apps in the cloud environment in a few minutes, regardless of how much data is associated. No special overhead costs. No need for post-migration adaptation. No need for a complex migration process that can take days or even weeks. * Velostrata is agentless, which can save many hours of labor per server, and because it moves the actual instance of the application to the cloud, cutover is fast, does not require complex synchronization and does not risk data loss. * Before Velostrata, the complexity of migration projects left me in a public cloud vendor lock-in after choosing my supplier. Velostrata grants me the freedom to move applications back on-premise or to another cloud provider.

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Overview

AWS Server Migration Service (SMS) is an agentless service which makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. AWS SMS allows you to automate, schedule, and track incremental replications of live server volumes, making it easier for you to coordinate large-scale server migrations.

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Velostrata software lets you move workloads to the public cloud in minutes, while controlling and automating where storage resides—on premises, in the cloud, or a combination of both.

Our patent pending technology uniquely decouples compute (VMs) from storage (VMDKs), and provides intelligent streaming, WAN and storage optimization, multi-tier caching, and data pre-fetching capabilities that make it possible to move compute to the cloud in minutes—and seamlessly move storage if and when it makes sense. These patent-pending technologies ensure optimal application performance, even over a WAN. Even better, you can move applications to AWS or Azure without changing the application, modifying the image, or changing your management processes.

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