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AWS Business Application Consulting: Design, Deploy, and Optimize Scalable Cloud Applications on AWS
AWS Business Application Consulting in Houston
DESSS provides AWS business application consulting in Houston for organizations that run their operations on SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and custom line-of-business systems. We plan, migrate, build, secure and operate those applications on Amazon Web Services, so the platform underneath stops being something your team has to worry about.
Most companies do not come to us asking for cloud. They come because an ERP upgrade is blocked by aging hardware, because a data center lease is expiring, because month-end reporting takes too long, or because an auditor has asked about access control and nobody can answer. AWS is the means, not the goal, and we scope every engagement around the business problem first.
Our AWS consulting services in Houston cover application strategy and architecture, migration and modernization, integration between AWS and the systems that stay on-premises, security and compliance, DevOps and automation, performance and cost optimization, and managed support once you are live. Engage us for a single assessment, a defined migration, or as the team that runs your AWS applications day to day.
Houston businesses in energy, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing and professional services operate under real uptime and regulatory pressure. We design AWS environments around those constraints, and we document everything we build so your own team can run it.
Running SAP, Microsoft and Oracle Applications on AWS
SAP on AWS
AWS is an SAP-certified platform for S/4HANA, SAP HANA and NetWeaver, with instance types certified for production HANA memory sizes. We handle sizing, landing zone, migration approach and high availability across Availability Zones, and we plan the cutover around your financial calendar so the business is never migrating during period close.
Microsoft Applications on AWS
SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, .NET applications and Windows file services all run on AWS. We look at your licence position first, because Bring Your Own Licence, License Included and moving to Amazon RDS or Aurora change the economics significantly, then design the environment and Active Directory integration around that decision.
Oracle Applications on AWS
Oracle Database, E-Business Suite and Fusion Middleware run on EC2 or Amazon RDS for Oracle. We assess licensing and support implications up front, then design for the performance the workload actually needs, using Data Guard or RDS Multi-AZ for resilience with tested backup and recovery.
UPTIME
Resilience You Can Evidence
Multi-AZ deployments, tested backups and rehearsed recovery replace the single points of failure a single data center leaves you carrying.
SPEED
Environments in Minutes, Not Weeks
Automated provisioning makes a new test or training environment a pipeline run rather than a hardware request and a procurement cycle.
COST
Spend That Matches Usage
Right-sizing, scheduled shutdowns and commitment planning turn fixed capital cost into an operating cost you can forecast and control.
SECURITY
Access You Can Prove
Least-privilege IAM, encryption and full CloudTrail logging give auditors the evidence they ask for instead of a spreadsheet and a promise.
FOCUS
Engineers on the Business, Not the Racks
Managed services and automation free your team from patching, capacity planning and hardware refresh cycles.
SCALE
Capacity for Peaks Without Idle Hardware
Month-end runs, seasonal demand and acquisitions are absorbed by scaling out and then back, rather than by buying for the worst case.
Why Houston Businesses Choose DESSS for AWS Consulting
DESSS has delivered enterprise application work from Houston for more than two decades, across energy, healthcare, logistics, manufacturing and professional services. We came to AWS through the applications rather than the other way round, which is why an SAP or Oracle migration here is run by people who supported those systems on-premises for years.
We are practical about what belongs in the cloud. Where a workload is better left where it is, or better re-bought as SaaS, we will say so rather than bill for a migration that does not pay back.
Every engagement leaves you with documentation: architecture diagrams, account and network design, the IAM model, runbooks and a cost baseline. If you later bring the environment in house or move to another partner, you own everything needed to run it.
You work with senior engineers in your own timezone who can be on site when a problem needs it, and scope, deliverables, timeline and cost are agreed in writing before any work starts.
AWS business application consulting covers planning, migrating, building, securing and operating business systems such as SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and custom applications on Amazon Web Services. At DESSS that means application strategy and architecture, migration and modernization, integration with systems that stay on-premises, security and compliance work, DevOps automation, cost optimization and ongoing managed support.
Yes. AWS is SAP-certified for production workloads including S/4HANA, SAP HANA and NetWeaver, with instance types certified for production HANA memory sizes. The practical work is sizing, landing zone design, choosing the migration approach, and planning high availability and disaster recovery across Availability Zones.
A single application typically takes six to twelve weeks from assessment through design, build, testing and cutover, depending on integrations and data volume. Larger estates are delivered in waves grouped by dependency, so each wave is a contained cutover rather than one high-risk event.
It depends on licensing more than infrastructure. Bring Your Own Licence, License Included and moving to a managed service such as Amazon RDS or Aurora produce very different totals, and Oracle licensing on cloud infrastructure has specific counting rules. DESSS models the licence position alongside infrastructure cost before recommending a target, because the licence usually dominates the business case.
We design least-privilege IAM, enforce encryption at rest and in transit, segment networks, and enable GuardDuty, Security Hub and CloudTrail for detection and audit logging. For regulated workloads we produce the evidence artifacts that HIPAA, PCI-DSS and SOC 2 assessments require, so compliance is demonstrable rather than asserted.
Migration moves an application to AWS largely as it is, which is fast and lower risk. Modernization changes the application to use cloud-native services such as containers, managed databases or serverless, which costs more up front and pays back in running cost and agility. Most programs do both: migrate first to exit the data center, then modernize the workloads where the return justifies it.
Yes. Managed AWS application support covers continuous monitoring, patching, backup and disaster recovery testing, incident response under an agreed SLA, and monthly reporting on availability, cost and capacity. You work with a named engineer who knows your environment rather than a rotating queue.
Yes. DESSS commonly works with internal IT teams, covering the AWS and application specializations they do not hold in house while they continue running end-user services. We document everything we build and train your team on it, so the engagement builds your capability instead of creating dependency.
Talk to a Houston AWS Consultant
Tell us which applications are holding you back and what your deadline is. We will assess your current estate, outline a practical AWS plan and give you scope, timeline and cost before you commit.