Unlock exclusive Amazon funding for your AWS migration with a certified partner
Subsidize Your Migration Costs
STX Next is a certified AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) partner, continuously maintaining and renewing our qualification to secure funding for partner-originated deals.
Working with us grants access to significant AWS funding that offsets our engineering costs. For deals meeting the $100k USD ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) threshold, this directly reduces your upfront capital investment.
Assess Phase
We unlock up to $75,000 (5% of your projected AWS ARR) in direct partner cash to evaluate your current architecture.
Mobilize Phase
We secure up to an additional 20% of your estimated ARR in partner cash to build your cloud foundation.
Migrate & Modernize Phase
AWS issues direct credits to cover your actual cloud bill as the new system goes live.
Knowledge transfer
We train and prepare your internal team to master AWS. By building their capabilities step by step, you gain guaranteed technical independence and long-term operational confidence.
A bad migration just moves your mess to a more expensive address.
Massive global IT body-leasing companies win deals by pushing low-skilled "lift and shift" migrations that leave you with bloated bills and legacy tech debt. STX Next focuses on smart re-architecting and cloud-native modernization to inject intelligence into your code.
We partner with you across three core engineering scenarios:
Our Vetted, 4-Step Migration Methodology
Your migration follows a strict framework. Amazon's Partner Solution Architects audit it to ensure zero operational downtime.
Analyze
By auditing your spend, VM performance, and hidden dependencies, we equip you with a solid business case and an accurate TCO model.
Prepare
You get a clear technical roadmap, target performance metrics, and an optimized architecture outline tailored to your goals.
Engage
We align directly with AWS technical leadership to validate the new design and lock in your maximum project subsidies.
Execute
Your team gains a modernized, high-availability AWS environment as we handle the complete deployment, validation, and launch.
Proven Business Impact
We judge our success by hard infrastructure metrics and client balance sheets:
US Fintech Leader Modernization
We transitioned a top-tier US fintech platform out of an aging, multi-state on-premise VMware model. Instead of a basic data transfer, we re-architected their ecosystem from scratch: implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) via AWS CloudFormation and deploying fully managed Amazon Aurora, Amazon MSK, and Amazon ElastiCache clusters to achieve automated 24/7 scalability and ultimate data protection.
UK Network Heating Overhaul
Our DevOps migration boosted application performance by 1,000%. It also cut operational infrastructure costs by 40%.
The USPM Cloud Audit
Our team examined a poorly managed cloud setup. We fixed major architectural issues with AWS migration & modernization, cut monthly cloud costs significantly, and greatly enhanced platform resilience.
Claim Your Funding Before the Deadline
AWS MAP capital is highly competitive and tied to strict funding windows. Let’s audit your infrastructure, project your target AWS revenue, and claim your engineering subsidies before the timeline closes.
Let's talk
Schedule a chat with Head of Cloud and one of our senior engineers to discuss your AWS migrations.
FAQs
What is the AWS Migration Acceleration Program?
It's AWS's funded migration program. AWS invests in proven partners to move customer workloads onto its platform, because every workload you run on AWS earns AWS revenue for years. The program runs in three phases: Assess, Mobilize, and Migrate and Modernize, and money is released at each one.
How much will AWS actually fund?
Up to $75,000 (5% of your projected AWS APR) for deals meeting the $100k USD ARR. Funding scales with your projected first-year AWS spend: partner cash that lowers what you pay us in the early phases, plus credits applied to your AWS bill as workloads move. We size the exact figure during the assessment and put it in writing before you commit to anything.
What does my company have to do to unlock the funding?
Most of the conditions sit on the customer side, which is where partners usually leave clients guessing. We don't. We walk you through what AWS needs to approve funding (including documentation, TCO, business case, etc), handle the fund request and the paperwork, and tell you upfront what your spend commitment and timeline look like.
We're already on AWS. Can we still get funded?
Yes. Funding applies per workload, not just your first move to AWS. A database still on-prem, a data platform on another cloud, or a legacy app you want to modernize with serverless or containers can each qualify on its own.
Do we have to commit to a full migration to start?
No. The Assess phase is funded and carries no obligation to migrate. We map your estate, build the business case, and hand you a cost estimation. If the numbers don't work, you walk away with a clear picture and no bill for the discovery.
What can we migrate under the program?
Workloads from on-premises, a data center, or another cloud. Databases, applications, data platforms, SAP, and VMware estates all fit. Database, VMware, and modernization moves carry extra AWS incentives, so the more you modernize, the more the program tends to return.
Are you a certified AWS partner?
We are an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner, currently completing AWS's Migration Capability Review, the same technical checklist AWS uses to audit its Migration Competency Partners. We're scored against migrations we've already delivered, not a slide deck.
We're in a regulated industry and can't move everything. Can you still help?
Yes. We run hybrid and on-premises DevOps for banks, insurers, and fintechs alongside AWS migrations, with the encryption, audit trails, and controls regulated workloads require. We move what makes sense to move and keep the rest compliant where it sits. We also support migrations to the AWS European Sovereign Cloud.
How do we start?
Book a migration assessment. In about two weeks, we map your workloads, confirm what qualifies for funding, and give you a plan, a cost, and the funded path to AWS.
