AWS migration
From your own servers, a colocation rack, shared hosting, Heroku or another cloud. Planned in waves, with tested rollback.
For: aging servers, hosting renewals, a data center lease ending
AWS Partner in the USA · Los Angeles, CA
Your cloud, drawn properly once, then wired into the Zoho apps your team already lives in.
We’re an AWS Partner in Glendale, in the Los Angeles area, and a Zoho Advanced Partner. We plan and run AWS migrations, set up accounts and security the way AWS recommends, cut waste from monthly bills, and build AI (now also called SI, super intelligence) features on Amazon Bedrock. Then we connect it all to Zoho CRM, Zoho Books and the rest, so your data stops living in two worlds.
01Why AWS with us
AWS can run almost anything, which is exactly why it gets messy. Most of the AWS accounts we’re asked to look at work fine but cost more than they should, have no clear owner for security, and don’t talk to the CRM or accounting system. These six habits are how we keep that from happening to yours.
We’re a Zoho Advanced Partner, a Zoho Catalyst Partner and an AWS Partner. When a sync between Zoho CRM and your AWS app breaks, there’s no “ask the other vendor”. The same engineers built both ends.
We size servers to what they actually use, then look at commitment pricing. AWS lists Savings Plans at up to 72% off On-Demand and Spot capacity at up to 90% off. What you’ll really save depends on how steady your usage is, and we show you the math.
MFA on the root user, people signing in through IAM Identity Center, least-privilege roles, CloudTrail logging and budget alerts. Boring, and it prevents most of the horror stories.
Operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability. AWS’s Well-Architected Tool is free in the console; we do the review work and turn the findings into a fix list.
With Amazon Bedrock, AWS says your prompts and outputs aren’t used to improve the base models and aren’t shared with the model providers. That makes it an easy yes for owners who were nervous about pasting customer data into a chatbot.
If a few small functions just need to react to Zoho data, Zoho Catalyst can be simpler to run. If two apps only need a no-code hand-off, Zoho Flow does it. We pick per job, because we build on all three.
02How an AWS migration runs
Good AWS migrations don’t move everything on one weekend. We sort every app with AWS’s “7 Rs” (retire, retain, rehost, relocate, repurchase, replatform, refactor), build a secure landing zone, prove the process on one quiet app, then move the important systems in planned cutover windows. Modernizing comes after the move, once things are stable.
Wave 0 Assess
We list every server, database, cron job and who depends on what. Each app gets one of the 7 Rs, and a few usually get retired outright.
Wave 1 Foundation
Separate accounts for production and testing, sign-in through IAM Identity Center, a VPC laid out for growth, CloudTrail logging, tags and budget alerts.
Wave 2 Pilot
An internal tool or a reporting job is rehosted end to end. The runbook, backups and rollback get tested on something nobody will lose sleep over.
Wave 3 Core systems
Databases replatform to Amazon RDS where it makes sense, data is kept in sync until cutover, and each switch happens in a window your team agreed to.
Wave 4 Optimize
With a few weeks of real usage, we rightsize, look at Savings Plans, move hot spots to containers or Lambda, and wire the new systems into Zoho.
Sizing up a move before you call anyone? Our AWS migration checklist lists what to gather for Wave 0 and the landing zone, wave by wave.
03Try it · sample numbers
AWS charges for what you use, so a bill is a stack of small meters. In the first panel, move the sliders and watch storage, data transfer and Lambda add up using AWS’s published US East rates. In the second, enter a monthly compute spend and see the most each pricing option could take off it. Treat them as ceilings and samples.
Sample inputs. Rates are AWS list prices for US East (N. Virginia) and change by Region; Lambda duration is billed at $0.0000166667 per GB-second after 400,000 free GB-seconds a month. Savings Plans and Spot figures are the “up to” maximums AWS advertises, the best case rather than the usual one. We run the real numbers from your own usage on a call.
04AWS consulting services
Six kinds of AWS work make up nearly everything we’re asked for. Some clients need one, most end up with three or four over a year. Pick the row that sounds like your problem.
From your own servers, a colocation rack, shared hosting, Heroku or another cloud. Planned in waves, with tested rollback.
For: aging servers, hosting renewals, a data center lease ending
Multi-account structure, IAM Identity Center, network design, logging, alarms and backups, set up before the first workload.
For: new AWS accounts, or one account that grew without a plan
Rightsizing, idle resource cleanup, storage tiers, Savings Plans coverage and tagging so each team sees its own spend.
For: a bill that keeps growing while traffic doesn’t
Containers on ECS or EKS, serverless with Lambda and API Gateway, and the CI/CD pipeline to ship it safely.
For: a monolith that’s hard to change, or a new customer portal
Webhooks, queues and APIs that keep Zoho CRM, Books and Inventory in step with what runs on AWS. Our specialty, see below.
For: anyone typing the same order into two systems
Assistants and agents on Amazon Bedrock that answer from your documents and Zoho records, plus SageMaker when a custom model is truly needed.
For: support teams, ops teams and anyone drowning in PDFs
The AWS services we touch most often each have their own page, with the setups we use and how each one talks to Zoho:
05Zoho + AWS integration
Most businesses we meet run sales and finance in Zoho and their product, portal or data on AWS. The gap between them gets filled by exports and copy-paste. We close it with a few proven patterns. Pick one to see the path a record takes.
No code needed for simple hand-offs? Zoho Flow covers a lot. Functions that mostly live next to Zoho data? Look at Zoho Catalyst. Moving business apps off old software at the same time? See switching to Zoho.
Good for SaaS products, portals and onboarding. Sales closes, the product account exists, nobody files a ticket.
The queue matters. API limits and timeouts happen; a queue means no order is lost, it just waits and retries.
Zoho Analytics can read from Amazon Redshift and the common databases on RDS, so product data and sales data finally share a chart.
Agents get the narrowest access that does the job, and Guardrails filter what goes in and out. Read-only first; writing back comes later, with approval.
06Why Elite Tech Global for AWS
An AWS environment lives long after the migration weekend. You want people who still pick up when the bill or the architecture needs a second look. This is who we are.
We are an AWS Partner and a certified Zoho Advanced Partner, which pays off when your AWS workloads have to trade data with Zoho apps every day.
Cloud builds, integrations and business systems for companies across the US, Canada and Latin America, led from our office in Glendale, California.
Accounts, networks, workloads and cutover steps go into a signed BRD with a fixed fee, so our cost stays put even when your AWS bill moves.
Our 40+ person in-house team keeps training your staff and tuning the setup after go-live, long after the architecture diagram is signed off.
07AWS pricing, in plain words
There’s no AWS price list for “a website” or “a company”. Each service has its own meter: hours or seconds of compute, gigabytes stored, gigabytes sent out, requests, tokens. The total depends on what you run, in which Region, and how you choose to pay for it. Here are the four ways to pay, then a few real list rates so you can see the scale.
Pay as you go, no commitment. The default, and the most expensive way to run anything that never turns off.
BaselineCommit to a steady dollar-per-hour amount for 1 or 3 years. Compute Savings Plans flex across instance types; EC2 Instance Savings Plans lock to a family for a deeper cut.
Up to 66% / 72% offSpare AWS capacity at a steep discount, which AWS can take back with short notice. Great for batch jobs and testing, wrong for your main database.
Up to 90% offNew accounts get $100 in credits, plus up to $100 more for trying key services, on a free plan that lasts up to 6 months. 30+ services also have always-free monthly limits.
Up to $200 credits| AWS service | What you pay for | List rate, US East (N. Virginia) | Free each month |
|---|---|---|---|
| Storage, plus requests | $0.023per GB-month, first 50 TB · PUT $0.005 and GET $0.0004 per 1,000 requests | New-account credits apply | |
| Requests and run time | $0.20per million requests · $0.0000166667 per GB-second (x86) | 1 million requests and 400,000 GB-seconds | |
| Data sent to the internet | $0.09per GB for the first 10 TB, cheaper after that | 100 GB, across all AWS services | |
| Input and output tokens | Per modelpriced per million tokens; batch jobs on supported models run 50% below on-demand | Varies by model | |
| Instance time, by size | Per instance typeOn-Demand by the second or hour, lower with Savings Plans or Spot | New-account credits apply |
AWS list prices in USD, before tax, for US East (N. Virginia); other US Regions like Oregon can differ. AWS adjusts rates and Free Tier terms from time to time, so we pull current figures from your Region when we size anything. Our AWS work is quoted separately as a fixed price in a signed BRD, never as a cut of your cloud bill.
08AWS vs the alternatives
All three big clouds can run a US business well, and their prices land closer than the marketing suggests. The deciding factors are usually what your team already knows, what your other software favors, and how much plumbing you want to own. Here’s our honest read.
| Platform | Usually the best fit when… | Commitment discounts | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| You want the widest choice of services, Bedrock for AI / SI, and a huge hiring pool | Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, Spot | So many options that accounts sprawl without a plan | |
| You’re deep in Microsoft 365, Active Directory and Windows servers | Reservations and savings plans | Licensing rules that take a specialist to read | |
| Analytics and data teams living in BigQuery | Committed use discounts | Smaller partner and hiring pool in many US cities | |
| Custom functions and small apps that mostly work on Zoho data | Usage-based, with a free tier | Narrower service catalog than any big cloud |
Where we’d tell you not to pick AWS: a Microsoft-only shop with a strong Azure admin should probably stay on Azure. A brochure website doesn’t need a VPC; managed WordPress hosting is simpler (see our WordPress work). And if all you need is a handful of scripts reacting to Zoho records, Zoho Catalyst is less to look after.
09Moving to AWS from…
Pick where you run today. Each tab shows the AWS service we’d usually move each piece to. It’s a starting point; the assessment wave decides the final map, and sometimes the right move for a piece is to retire it.
| Today | On AWS |
|---|---|
| VMware virtual machines | Amazon EC2 (rehost), then rightsize |
| SQL Server or MySQL box | Amazon RDS |
| File server | Amazon FSx or S3 |
| Tape or USB backups | AWS Backup to S3 |
| Firewall and VPN appliance | VPC, security groups, Site-to-Site VPN |
| Active Directory logins | IAM Identity Center |
| Today | On AWS |
|---|---|
| cPanel site and app | EC2 or containers on ECS |
| MySQL on the same box | Amazon RDS for MySQL |
| Uploads folder | Amazon S3 |
| Host’s CDN or none | Amazon CloudFront |
| Registrar DNS | Amazon Route 53 |
| Host’s mail relay | Amazon SES |
| Today | On AWS |
|---|---|
| Web dynos | ECS on Fargate |
| Worker dynos | ECS tasks or Lambda with SQS |
| Heroku Postgres | Amazon RDS or Aurora PostgreSQL |
| Heroku Scheduler | EventBridge Scheduler |
| Config vars | Secrets Manager or Parameter Store |
| Add-on logging | Amazon CloudWatch |
| Today | On AWS |
|---|---|
| Virtual machines / Compute Engine | Amazon EC2 |
| AKS or GKE clusters | Amazon EKS |
| Azure Functions / Cloud Functions | AWS Lambda |
| Blob Storage / Cloud Storage | Amazon S3 |
| Azure SQL / Cloud SQL | Amazon RDS |
| Entra ID / Cloud IAM roles | IAM roles and Identity Center |
10AWS security basics
That split is AWS’s shared responsibility model: AWS runs the data centers, hardware and core services, and you control who can log in, what’s public and what’s encrypted. In our reading, many cloud breaches in the news trace back to one misconfigured setting, such as a public bucket or an unused access key. This is the checklist we put in place on every account.
Tap what your account already has: 0 of 6.
Under HIPAA, PCI or a SOC 2 audit? AWS offers eligible services and its own compliance reports, but your compliance is still yours. We build the technical controls your auditor or compliance lead asks for, and we don’t certify anything ourselves.
11AI / SI on AWS
Amazon Bedrock gives you models from Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI, Amazon and others through one AWS API, billed per token in your own account. We use it to build assistants and agents that answer from your files and Zoho records instead of guessing.
Want AI / SI inside Zoho itself? Our Zoho CRM team sets up Zia and agents there too, and the homepage shows how our AI agents work.
12Typical AWS projects
Every AWS engagement gets its own scope, and a lot of them start small: one review, one fix list, then a bigger piece once trust is built. After go-live we stay on for AWS support, so alarms, patches and new features aren’t left to whoever has time. If a new account, Region or Zoho sync joins the plan after sign-off, it’s priced as a change you approve before anyone builds it.
Review
Review fee fixed in a signed BRD
Migration
Fixed migration price, waves dated in the BRD
Zoho + AWS
Sync build at a fixed price, signed off in a BRD
AI / SI
Bedrock build priced once, before setup
13How an AWS project starts
Four steps turn “our cloud is a mess” into a written plan with a price. A cost review of a single account can often be scoped on the first call. A multi-account migration or a data center exit may need a paid assessment and BRD phase first, and we’ll quote that up front.
AWS work runs remotely for teams across the US, Canada and Latin America; for migrations in Southern California we’re happy to stand in the server room with you.
Every AWS delivery step after sign-off, kickoff through cutover and handover, is spelled out for you. See how we work →
14AWS questions
Straight answers on AWS consulting, migration, pricing, security, Bedrock and Zoho integration. Something specific to your account? Bring your last AWS bill to the first call; it costs nothing.
An AWS consulting partner plans, builds and looks after workloads on Amazon Web Services for you. At Elite Tech Global that means AWS migration, landing zone and security setup, cost optimization, apps and APIs on containers or Lambda, AI / SI on Amazon Bedrock, and connecting all of it to Zoho. We are an AWS Partner based in Glendale, in the Los Angeles area.
AWS is usage-based, so there is no flat price. Each service has its own meter. For example, in US East (N. Virginia) S3 Standard storage is $0.023 per GB-month for the first 50 TB, Lambda is $0.20 per million requests after 1 million free each month, and data sent to the internet is $0.09 per GB after the first 100 GB free each month. Your total depends on what you run, the Region and whether you use Savings Plans or Spot. We size it from your real usage before you commit.
We start with rightsizing servers and databases to what they actually use and removing idle resources, then move rarely used data to cheaper storage tiers. For steady usage we look at Savings Plans, which AWS lists at up to 72% off On-Demand, and for interruptible jobs Spot capacity, listed at up to 90% off. Tags and budget alerts then show each team its own spend so the bill stays down.
We run it in waves: assess every app and pick one of AWS’s 7 Rs for it, build a secure landing zone, move one low-risk pilot app, then move core systems in agreed cutover windows, and optimize after. How long it takes depends on how many apps and databases move and how much changes on the way, so the signed BRD gives each wave and cutover its own date before work starts.
Yes, that is our specialty. Common patterns are Zoho CRM webhooks into API Gateway and Lambda to create accounts in your app, orders from your AWS app queued in SQS and posted to Zoho Books as invoices, AWS databases feeding Zoho Analytics dashboards, and Bedrock agents with read-only access to Zoho CRM. For simple hand-offs Zoho Flow may be enough, and for small functions near Zoho data Zoho Catalyst can be simpler.
If the code mostly reacts to Zoho records and is fairly small, Zoho Catalyst is often less to run. If you already have a lot on AWS, need services like Bedrock, a private VPC or heavy compute, AWS Lambda is usually the better home. We are both a Zoho Catalyst Partner and an AWS Partner, so we recommend whichever fits.
AWS secures the data centers, hardware and core services, and you control access, network exposure and encryption. That is the shared responsibility model. We set up the basics on every account: MFA on the root user, sign-in through IAM Identity Center, least-privilege roles, CloudTrail logging, encryption with KMS, tested backups, GuardDuty and budget alerts.
We build the technical controls your auditor or compliance lead asks for, such as encryption, logging, access reviews and backups, using AWS services that support those programs. We do not certify anything ourselves, and your compliance program stays yours.
Amazon Bedrock is the AWS service for building AI / SI apps with models from providers like Anthropic, Meta, Mistral AI and Amazon through one API, billed per token. AWS states that your prompts and outputs are not used to improve the base models and are not shared with the model providers. We add Knowledge Bases so answers come from your own documents, and Guardrails to filter what goes in and out.
New AWS customers get $100 in credits at sign-up and can earn up to $100 more by trying key services, on a free plan that lasts up to 6 months or until the credits run out. More than 30 services also have always-free monthly limits, such as 1 million Lambda requests a month.
It is a structured check of a workload against AWS’s six pillars: operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization and sustainability. The Well-Architected Tool is free in the AWS console. We do the review, then hand you a ranked fix list with the effort each item takes.
Yes. After go-live we keep providing AWS support: watching alarms and costs, patching, adding features and helping your team, online or on-site in Southern California. The level of ongoing support is agreed in writing like everything else.
Talking through your AWS account with us costs nothing on the first call. After that, each AWS project is a fixed price agreed in a signed BRD, with a delivery schedule. Larger migrations may need a paid assessment first, which we quote up front. AWS bills you directly for the cloud usage itself.
SI stands for super intelligence. In September 2026 a US executive order asked federal agencies to use “super intelligence” or “SI” in place of “artificial intelligence” in official communications. Most businesses still say AI, so we use both terms.
15Let’s talk
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