Migration assessment Plan your move to AWS with an AI agent.
Sherpa is an AI platform for AWS. Its Migration Assessment guides your team through migration planning with an AI agent, covering business scope, owners, estate, workloads, infrastructure and target state, and records your decisions, risks and open questions in one workspace.
Why does migration planning take so long?
Before a single workload moves, someone has to establish what is running, who owns it, which systems depend on each other and what it costs today. That discovery is the slowest, most expensive phase of a cloud migration.
Read: The most expensive part of a cloud project happens before any work starts →
What are the steps in a Sherpa migration assessment?
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Kickoff
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Business scope and owners
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Estate data
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Workload and domain discovery
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Infrastructure
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Target state and pricing
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Review and compile
What does the assessment capture?
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Decisions and assumptions
recorded as the assessment progresses, so the reasoning behind your migration strategy stays on record.
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Risks and stakeholders
each risk rated, and the stakeholders accountable for each decision named.
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Open items and data requests
each assigned to your side or ours, with a named owner where there is one, and closed with a recorded reason.
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Your machine inventory
imported from your RVTools export and versioned as your estate data changes.
Who runs a migration assessment in Sherpa?
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Your IT and infrastructure leaders, planning and governing their own move to AWS.
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Consultancies and MSPs that run migration assessments for their clients. Email info@sherpa-agent.com to discuss how it fits your practice.
Migration assessment questions.
What data do we need?
An RVTools export of your server estate, plus access to the people who understand your business scope and system ownership. The AI agent requests anything else the assessment needs, such as utilisation data, licence records and your current data-centre costs.
Does Sherpa move our workloads?
No. Sherpa helps your team plan the migration and document the decisions behind it; your engineers or your migration partner carry out the move itself.
Who can start an assessment?
An admin in your Sherpa organisation, which keeps control of each migration assessment with the people your organisation has made administrators.
Is this the same as an AWS cost assessment?
No. The Migration Assessment plans the workloads you intend to move to AWS, while the One-time FinOps Assessment reviews the cost of what you already run there. Sherpa is an AI platform for AWS that does both.