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vFunction - AWS Prescriptive Guidance

vFunction

Last update: October 22, 2024

Note

AWS Partner product descriptions and reported qualifications, including compliance, are provided by the AWS Partner and are not verified by AWS. For more information about these products, contact the AWS Partner. You are encouraged to conduct your own additional due diligence before choosing to use any of the products listed.

Product overview

Category

Product capabilities

Product website

vFunction

Product certifications

AWS Competency Program competencies and other certifications

AWS Migration and Modernization – Discovery, Planning, and Recommendation

AWS Marketplace

Link to subscribe or download

vFunction on AWS Marketplace

Tool deployment model

Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed

  • Servers deployed on AWS (customer VPC)

  • Servers deployed on premises in customer environment

Compliance

Not available

Service model

  • Full self-service – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by the customer or end-user

  • Self-service with vendor support – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by customer or end-user with the option of vendor support

  • Managed service (including partner-enabled service) – Deployment, management, and maintenance require professional services

Pricing model

Subscription

Discovery, planning, and recommendation capabilities

Category

Product capabilities

Discovery method

The ability to support one or more of the following discovery methods:

  • Agentless – Uses protocols or interfaces such as SNMP or WMI

  • Agent-based – Requires installation of software on the source resources, such as Linux or Windows servers

  • Login-based – Uses protocols, such as SSH and RDP, to log in to the source servers

Agent-based

Resources discoverable

The ability to discover servers, databases, storage systems, network devices, software processes, containers, and mainframes

Software processes

Operating systems discoverable

  • Windows

  • Linux

Other resources discoverable

Custom software applications, business logic

Discovery of resource profiles

The ability to discover the CPU family (such as x86 or RISC/PowerPC), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, or bandwidth

Not available

Resource utilization data collection

The ability to collect time-series utilization data, such peak, average, median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes, and minimum sampling duration of 1 month

Not available

Application dependency level

The ability to discover application dependency and export dependency data:

  • Application and server dependency – Individual servers and dependencies that form an application

  • Application and software process dependency – Individual software processes, configurations, and dependencies that form an application

  • Application and code dependency – Individual programming code, configurations, and dependencies that form an application

Application and code dependency

Visualization level

The ability to provide multiple-level visualization of applications:

  • All resource and applications – An entire on-premises or source environment with all resources and applications

  • Single application – A single application across its resources, end to end

  • Single application and its software processes – Individual software processes and dependencies that form an application

  • Single application and its programming code – Individual programming code and dependencies that form an application

Single application and its programming code

Database details discovery, source database system

Runtime metrics (for example, server memory usage, client connections, transactions, batch requests)

Storage details discovery

The ability to discover storage details, such as systems, types, capacity, configuration, utilization, and object metadata

Not available

Storage systems discoverable

The ability to discovery storage systems, such as EMC Isilon, EMC VMAX, Hitachi Vantara, HPE 3PAR, and Pure Storage

Not available

File system details discovery

Not available

Software details discovery, programming languages

Java, .NET, Python, Ruby, Go, NodeJS, C++, PHP++

Software details discovery, frameworks or libraries

J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, Quarkus, Hibernate, ASP.NET, VB.NET, C#.NET, and most others

Software details discovery, ISV products

The ability to discover independent software vendor (ISV) products, such as Splunk Enterprise or F5 BIG-IP Virtual Edition

Not available

Container details discovery

Not available

License discovery

Not available

Data sovereignty support

The ability to keep discovered data within a specific geographic region

Available

Data export ability

The ability to export the discovered data into a usable format, such as CSV or JSON

Available

Code analysis

The ability to support static and dynamic code analysis, optionally identifying:

  • Deprecated code

  • Security concerns in code

  • Resilience concerns in code

  • Deprecated code

  • Resilience concerns in code

  • Scalability, engineering velocity, technical debt

Pipeline integration

The ability to integrate with CI/CD pipelines for continuous code analysis

Available

Service discovery, mapping

The ability to automate service discovery mapping, which identifies the underlying services, dependencies, and communication patterns (including to external resources, such as SaaS providers)

Available

Service discovery, recommendations

The ability to suggest optimizations for discovered services

Available

Monolith decomposition, identification

The ability to identify candidate microservices, given classes, objects, functions, and stored procedures

Available

Monolith decomposition, impact analysis

The ability to analyze the impact of the decomposition process

Available

Open source compliance analysis, identification

The ability to identify non-compliant open source solutions within an application

Available

Open source compliance analysis, recommendations

The ability to suggest compliant alternatives or remediation steps

Available

Framework migration, standard

The ability to support framework migrations, such as Spring to Spring Boot or .NET Framework to .NET 6+

Available; can report on compatibility and necessary changes and can propose new code

Framework migration, legacy

The ability to migrate legacy frameworks, databases, or data formats during framework migrations

Available

Environmental impact analysis

The ability to provide guidance about the sustainability of applications, such as before and after a migration

Not available

Cost of change analysis, effort

The ability to estimate the effort required to modernize an application

Available

Cost of change analysis, architecture

The ability to estimate the target architecture costs after modernizing an application

Not available

Predictive outcome analysis

The ability to rate modernization outcomes based on aggregated, anonymized data, such as the risk of change, the effort of change, and a confidence level that the change will be successful

Available

Weighted analysis, preferences

The ability to weight preferences for modernization recommendations based on considerations such as performance, resilience, and cost

Available

Weighted analysis, organizational priorities

The ability to customize and adjust weights as organizational priorities change

Available