TSO Logic

TSO Logic, now known as AWS Migration Evaluator, provides data-driven analytics for cloud migration planning. Founded in 2010 by Aaron Rallo in Vancouver, Canada, the company developed a platform to address the operational and financial challenges of managing large-scale server environments. Rallo, the company's CEO, drew upon his 16 years of experience building and operating online platforms for major retailers like Walmart and Costco, where he identified the need for better measurement of application workloads to improve performance and reduce costs.

The company's core offering is a software platform that analyzes on-premises IT environments to provide insights for cloud migration strategies. It ingests millions of data points from a customer's existing infrastructure, including hardware age, software configurations, and historical utilization, without the need for agents. Using algorithmic analysis, the platform creates detailed statistical models of compute patterns. This allows it to identify overprovisioned systems, calculate the total cost of ownership (TCO), and model the most cost-effective scenarios for moving workloads to the cloud. The software recommends the ideal instance types and sizes on AWS and can factor in complex software licensing agreements, such as those for Microsoft products. By replacing manual analysis and guesswork with data-backed modeling, the platform helps businesses build a compelling business case for migration, potentially reducing costs by 26% or more.

Serving Fortune 500 companies and partnering with major cloud providers, TSO Logic established itself as a key player in the cloud planning and optimization market. It achieved AWS Migration Competency Partner status in 2017. The company's success and alignment with Amazon's ecosystem led to its acquisition by Amazon Web Services (AWS) in January 2019. Since the acquisition, the TSO Logic platform has been integrated into AWS's services and rebranded as AWS Migration Evaluator, where it continues to function as a free tool to help customers plan and de-risk their move to the AWS cloud.

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