AWS account connectors for VMware migrations - AWS Transform

AWS account connectors for VMware migrations

To perform a VMware migration, you need an AWS account target account connector.

The target AWS account connector connects your migration job to your new AWS environment where your workloads will reside after the migration. It's important to ensure that the target AWS account that you specify for this connector is properly set up with the necessary permissions, quotas, and configurations to support your migrated infrastructure.

When you create your target AWS account connector, AWS Transform will ask you to specify a target AWS Region. That is the AWS Region where your target environment with all your servers will reside. You can specify any one of the following AWS Regions for the target account connector:

  • US East (N. Virginia)

  • US East (Ohio)

  • US West (Oregon)

  • Asia Pacific (Mumbai)

  • Asia Pacific (Tokyo)

  • Asia Pacific (Osaka)

  • Asia Pacific (Seoul)

  • Asia Pacific (Sydney)

  • Asia Pacific (Singapore)

  • Canada (Central)

  • Europe (Frankfurt)

  • Europe (London)

  • Europe (Paris)

  • Europe (Ireland)

  • Europe (Stockholm)

  • South America (São Paulo)

Important

If you specify a target AWS Region that is different from the AWS Transform AWS Region, that means AWS Transform will be transferring your data across AWS Regions.

The target connector connects your migration job to the target AWS account and target AWS Region for the following purposes:

  • Network-infrastructure setup – The target account is where you will create new Amazon VPCs and associated network resources to host your migrated applications in the target AWS Region that you specify when you create the target connector.

  • Amazon EC2-instance setup – The target AWS account is where you will migrate your VMware virtual machines and run them as Amazon EC2 instances in the target AWS Region.

  • Testing and validation: – Before final cutover, you will use the target AWS account for testing the migrated servers and ensuring they function correctly in the AWS environment.

  • Cost management – The target AWS account will be where the costs for running your migrated infrastructure are incurred and where you can track those costs.

  • Long-term operations – Post-migration, this target AWS account becomes your primary account for operating and managing your former source workloads in AWS.

Note

AWS Transform may update connector types when introducing features requiring permission changes within your AWS accounts. You can use a connector version that is compatible with your VMware migration job. New connectors are created with the latest version for that connector type. The current version for the discovery account connector type is 1.0. The current version for target account connector type is 2.0.