AWS MIGRATION GRANT
Funded migration work for companies already running on another cloud, a hosting provider or their own servers. We qualify you, scope it with you and handle the application. Our approved migration partner does the move. You keep everything.
Apply for the migration grantAWS migration funding pays for the work of moving a live product onto AWS: the assessment, the migration and modernisation. Startups spending $24,000 to $500,000 a year on cloud use the quick startup track. Companies spending more than $100,000 can use the Migration Acceleration Program (MAP). Our approved partner does the work.
Free
assessment and migration on the startup track
Two tracks
one for startups, one for established companies
No cash changes hands
AWS funds the work, not your bank account
$0
upfront cost to you
“Inside Startups has helped us access AWS funding for the AWS development partner's work on Seismora's next roadmap capabilities. Beyond the development support, being able to share that this work is funded by AWS has strengthened our credibility in strategic partner conversations. That combination of practical support and partner confidence has been valuable as we build toward commercial deployment.”
Vito Palermo
Seismora
“My experience with Inside Startups has been really positive. They took the time to understand what I'm building with Ariad and connected me with the AWS development partner for a genuinely useful technical conversation. Although the AWS funding programme wasn't quite the right fit for where Ariad is today, the advice I received helped me get much clearer on the next stage of development and how to approach our first enterprise pilots. I particularly appreciated the openness, practical advice and willingness to look beyond the funding opportunity itself.”
Elizabeth Marrero
Ariad Ltd
“Very supportive team that is on your side.”
Vitaly Stockman
SVIFI
What it is
AWS funds the cost of moving existing workloads onto its platform. The funding is sized against your annual cloud spend, today on your current platform and on AWS after the move, and released in phases: an assessment, the migration itself, and modernisation of what moves. It pays for the engineers who do the work, delivered by our approved migration partner. Nothing is paid to you directly and nothing is owed back. At the end you own the migrated product, the infrastructure and the documentation.
Who it is for
Your product is live, you have paying customers, and you are running on Azure, Google Cloud, Heroku, Render, DigitalOcean or your own servers. Annual cloud spend between $24,000 and $500,000. AWS funds up to a quarter of that in services and up to another quarter in migration work. This track is quick. Approval can come inside a week.
Annual cloud spend above $100,000, with a structured migration of servers, databases, storage or an SAP, Oracle or VMware estate. This is the AWS Migration Acceleration Program. It is larger, runs in three formal phases and takes two weeks to three months.
If you are not sure which track you are, apply anyway. The first thing we do is tell you.
What gets funded
A readiness review of your current setup, a migration plan and a business case. On the startup track this alone can be funded up to $10,000.
Moving your workloads onto AWS: rehost, replatform or refactor, depending on what you need.
Targeted improvements to what moves, so you land on infrastructure that scales rather than a copy of what you had.
Cost, reliability and performance checks once you are live.
Funding is released as each phase completes, so the work is paid for as it is delivered.
How it works
01
Three minutes. What you run, where it runs, and roughly what it costs you.
02
Within two working days we tell you which track you are on, or that you are not eligible yet and what would change that.
03
Our approved migration partner meets you, looks at your current platform and sizes the funding against your billing. This is where the number gets set.
04
Around an hour with your technical lead. The scope of work is written here.
05
The scope goes to AWS. Startup track approvals can land within a week. The larger programme takes longer.
06
The work is done in phases by our approved migration partner. You get the migrated product, documentation and a roadmap for what to do next on AWS.
Why now
Every month on the current platform is a month of hosting bills, technical debt and lock-in that AWS would have paid to remove. The funding is sized on your cloud bill today, so it does not grow by waiting. Most founders never apply because they assume the programme is for enterprises. Half of it is for companies exactly your size.
What it takes from your side
01
A product that is live with paying customers. Pre-revenue products are not eligible on either track.
02
An AWS business account, which we help you set up if you do not have one.
03
A technical lead who can join one workshop and answer questions during the assessment.
04
Access to your current hosting and billing so the funding can be sized correctly.
Grant application
Complete the form below. We review every application and come back within two working days with the track you are on.
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