AWS prescriptive-guidance documentation change
Summary
Updated Flexera business case documentation with improved formatting, added new capabilities (data import, resource exclusions, VMware analysis, storage sizing), expanded license analysis, and standardized 'EC2' to 'Amazon EC2' terminology.
Security assessment
The changes focus on product capabilities and business case analysis features. While 'TCO data sovereignty support' mentions data protection policies, this is a pre-existing compliance feature without evidence of addressing new vulnerabilities. No security patches, vulnerability disclosures, or security incidents are referenced.
Diff
diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/business-case-flexera.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/business-case-flexera.md index ab0274fab..9a27f7ade 100644 --- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/business-case-flexera.md +++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/migration-tools/business-case-flexera.md @@ -7 +7 @@ -Product overviewBusiness case capabilities +Product overviewBusiness case analysis capabilities @@ -13 +13 @@ Product overviewBusiness case capabilities -###### Notice +###### Note @@ -21,16 +21,4 @@ Category | Product capabilities - -**Product website** - -| [Flexera Cloud Migration](https://www.flexera.com/solutions/cloud-cost/cloud-migration) - -**Product certifications** - [AWS Competency Program](https://aws.amazon.com/partners/offerings/) competencies and other certifications -| AWS Migration and Modernization – Discovery, Planning, and Recommendation - -**AWS Marketplace** - Link to subscribe or download -| [Flexera Cloud Migration and Modernization on AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ippp4uyj2nrey) - -**Tool deployment model** - Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed -| +**Product website** | [Flexera Cloud Migration](https://www.flexera.com/solutions/cloud-cost/cloud-migration) +**Product certifications**[ AWS Competency Program](https://aws.amazon.com/partners/offerings/) competencies and other certifications | AWS Migration and Modernization – Discovery, Planning, and Recommendation +**AWS Marketplace** Link to subscribe or download | [Flexera Cloud Migration and Modernization on AWS Marketplace](https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-ippp4uyj2nrey) +**Tool deployment model** Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed | @@ -42,4 +30 @@ Category | Product capabilities - -**Compliance** - -| +**Compliance** | @@ -54,4 +39 @@ Category | Product capabilities - -**Service model** - -| +**Service model** | @@ -64,4 +46 @@ Category | Product capabilities - -**Pricing model** - -| Subscription +**Pricing model** | Subscription @@ -72,0 +52,2 @@ Category | Product capabilities +**Data import** The ability to upload IT asset data from discovery tools (such as CMDB extract, VCenter extract, SolarWinds, or Hyper-V) or from software distribution tools (such as Microsoft SCCM) | Manually +**Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 instance type** The ability to select the Amazon EC2 instance type with the lowest cost based on the source server profile(1) and utilization data(2), application characteristics(3), and Amazon EC2 characteristics(4) | @@ -74,9 +55 @@ Category | Product capabilities -**Data import** - The ability to upload IT asset data from discovery tools (such as CMDB extract, VCenter extract, SolarWinds, or Hyper-V) or from software distribution tools (such as Microsoft SCCM) -| Manually - -**Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 instance type** - The ability to select the Amazon EC2 instance type with the lowest cost based on the source server profile1 and utilization data2, application characteristics3, and Amazon EC2 characteristics4 -| - - * vCPU and CPU core count mapping and RAM mapping between the source server or VM and target EC2 instance + * vCPU and CPU core count mapping and RAM mapping between the source server or VM and target Amazon EC2 instance @@ -86,0 +60,7 @@ Category | Product capabilities +**Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 manufacturer** | Intel-based Amazon EC2 instances +**Exclusion of resource types** The ability to exclude Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, such as burstable T3, from TCO calculation | No +**VMware Cloud on AWS analysis** The ability to analyze the cost of VMware Cloud on AWS by modeling VMware Cloud workload configurations, such as using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storage | Yes +**Right-sizing, tenancy** The ability to make optimized recommendations across Amazon EC2 tenancies with Dedicated Hosts or Dedicated Instances | Dedicated Instances +**Right-sizing, attached storage** The ability to use source storage profile data, utilization data, application characteristics, and AWS storage characteristics in order to right-size attached storage, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), with proper types, such as SSD or HDD | Yes +**Choice of resource capacity allocation** The ability to select resource capacity allocation schemes (such as low or high resource utilization reservation) or fine-tune the utilization threshold (such as selecting a statistically lowered option 90th or 95th percentile) to reflect your conservative or optimistic resource allocation plan | Yes +**License analysis** The ability to provide default license mapping and options in AWS with cost comparisons of bringing existing licenses versus buying licenses from AWS | @@ -88,29 +68 @@ Category | Product capabilities -**Right-sizing, Amazon EC2 manufacturer** - -| Intel-based EC2 instances - -**Exclusion of resource types** - The ability to exclude Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, such as burstable T3, from TCO calculation -| No - -**VMware Cloud on AWS analysis** - The ability to analyze the cost of VMware Cloud on AWS by modeling VMware Cloud workload configurations, such as using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for storage -| Yes - -**Right-sizing, tenancy** - The ability to make optimized recommendations across Amazon EC2 tenancies with Dedicated Hosts or Dedicated Instances -| Dedicated Instances - -**Right-sizing, attached storage** - The ability to use source storage profile data, utilization data, application characteristics, and AWS storage characteristics in order to right-size attached storage, such as Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), with proper types, such as SSD or HDD -| Yes - -**Choice of resource capacity allocation** - The ability to select resource capacity allocation schemes (such as low or high resource utilization reservation) or fine-tune the utilization threshold (such as selecting a statistically lowered option 90th or 95th percentile) to reflect your conservative or optimistic resource allocation plan -| Yes - -**License analysis** - The ability to provide default license mapping and options in AWS with cost comparisons of bringing existing licenses versus buying licenses from AWS -| - - * Provide EC2 license options, including BYOL and AWS license-included options + * Provide Amazon EC2 license options, including BYOL and AWS license-included options @@ -123,4 +75 @@ Category | Product capabilities - -**TCO coverage, on premises** - Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively -| +**TCO coverage, on premises** Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively | @@ -132,0 +82 @@ Category | Product capabilities +**TCO coverage, AWS** Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively | @@ -134,5 +84 @@ Category | Product capabilities -**TCO coverage, AWS** - Cost estimates over 1 year and 3 years, respectively -| - - * EC2 and Reserved Instance costs + * Amazon EC2 and Reserved Instance costs @@ -145,4 +91 @@ Category | Product capabilities - -**TCO coverage, migration** - Cost estimates -| +**TCO coverage, migration** Cost estimates | @@ -156,4 +99 @@ Category | Product capabilities - -**TCO data sovereignty support** - The ability to store TCO analysis data on premises or at a designated location based on the data protection policies or government data sovereignty regulations -| Yes +**TCO data sovereignty support** The ability to store TCO analysis data on premises or at a designated location based on the data protection policies or government data sovereignty regulations | Yes