AMAZON WEB SERVICES

We are an Advanced Consulting partner with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and our team helps organizations scale efficiently and accelerate growth. Drawing on extensive experience in AWS infrastructure migration and operations, we can help you increase agility, reduce costs, and accelerate innovation in the cloud.

Services

PeopleSoft on AWS

Your organization may use several applications for finance, human resources, payroll, and other business functions. Deploying applications in the cloud often promotes cost benefits and enhances scalability and flexibility. We offer a bundled, SaaS-like, fully managed service, leveraging our FlexOps® automation to build, monitor, patch, support, and administer your most important applications using the AWS public cloud infrastructure.

VMware Migration & Managed Services

Transitioning your data center to AWS can provide agility, scalability, security, reliability, and operational efficiency. At Sierra-Cedar, one of our focus areas is data center assessments and migrations. Our end-to-end migration services include working with you to thoroughly analyze your organization’s current architecture, identify desirable migration strategies, verify system dependencies and data interfaces, and execute the cloud migration process.

Cloud Managed Services

One Provider for Your Entire Cloud Stack

Managing enterprise applications and infrastructure on AWS requires specialized expertise across platforms, updates, and ongoing operations. With 25+ years of managed services experience, Sierra-Cedar delivers comprehensive support across your entire technology stack, from PeopleSoft and Oracle applications to VMware workloads and AWS infrastructure.

Our integrated service portfolio includes:

  • Application Management Services (AMS) for enterprise applications
  • PUM and upgrade services to keep PeopleSoft current and compliant
  • VMware managed services for workload migration and operations
  • Full AWS infrastructure management

Whether you need support for a single service area or end-to-end cloud operations, our team of 225+ hosting and managed services professionals delivers.

AWS Consulting Services

Build, Optimize, and Secure Your AWS Environment

Sierra-Cedar’s AWS consulting services help you maximize cloud value at every stage, from initial architecture through ongoing optimization. Our certified consultants bring deep expertise across AWS capabilities, delivering results that reduce costs and strengthen security.

We specialize in:

  • Cloud-native architecture design using Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
  • FlexOps® automation to eliminate manual overhead
  • Enterprise application migration, including PeopleSoft to AWS
  • Security posture using AWS-native tools
  • Disaster recovery planning to assist with business continuity.

From strategy to hands-on implementation, our team delivers.

GenAI Services

Sierra-Cedar is actively exploring generative AI capabilities to help clients leverage emerging technologies within Oracle Cloud Applications and AWS. As AI becomes embedded in business workflows across finance, supply chain, and HR, we’re positioned to guide you through adoption—from evaluating use cases to understanding how AI-powered features can improve productivity and the employee experience.

AWS Storage Services

AWS Compute Service Instances

AWS Network Monthly Egress

AWS Security Scans

AWS Compliance Checks

PeopleSoft Replatforming Services

Sierra-Cedar specializes in re-platforming PeopleSoft applications to AWS. Using our “Lift, Re-platform, and Shift” methodology and FlexOps® automation, we migrate complex systems quickly.

Our cloud-native approach improves performance and can help reduce costs. At the College of the Holy Cross, peak registration response times dropped from 60 seconds to two seconds. Clients like ASU have seen operational costs decrease by approximately 20% annually through our managed services.

Client Success Story

Since 2013, Sierra-Cedar has provided hosting and application management support services for AC Transit’s PeopleSoft applications. Building on this 10+ year relationship, Sierra-Cedar designed and implemented AC Transit’s migration to AWS. The results: 99.98% average uptime, 40% improvement in application response times, and a 60% reduction in disaster recovery time objectives.

Blog: RAMP Initiative

In 15 months, Sierra-Cedar migrated 30 clients and 300+ enterprise workloads from our data center to AWS—including 1,800+ VMs to EC2. Our Rapid AWS Migration Project (RAMP) eliminated data center dependency and positioned us for continued cloud growth. Read how we did it, why we made the move, and what’s next. 

Client Testimonials

Brian Bergeron, ERP Manager

“Working with AWS and Sierra-Cedar, the College of the Holy Cross has scaled our infrastructure to meet our peak period requirements during student enrollment. Course enrollment confirmations that previously took up to a minute are now completed for students in seconds running on AWS.”

Brian Bergeron, ERP Manager – College of the Holy Cross

Jess Evans, Ph.D., Chief Operating and Digital Transformation Officer

“Sierra-Cedar has been an important partner in helping ASU make significant progress toward our goal of enabling student success in ASU’s ongoing evolution toward the New American University by successfully migrating ASU’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions and Human Capital Management systems to the AWS Cloud. Sierra-Cedar’s ERP and AWS expertise and their high level of professionalism made it easy to complete the migration ahead of schedule.”

Jess Evans, Ph.D., Chief Operating and Digital Transformation Officer – Arizona State University

Derrick Griffin, Systems & Security Engineer

“The execution was flawless, and the migration was completed without interruption to our faculty or students. I could not have asked for anything more.”

Derrick Griffin, Systems & Security Engineer – Lake Michigan College

Vijay Badal, Director Application Services

“Our experience with Sierra-Cedar has been excellent. They not only helped us plan and execute the migration of Hyperion Planning and Budgeting application to AWS but also guided us to get the full benefit of all AWS services.”

Vijay Badal, Director Application Services – DOTComm

Gary L. Pratt, Chief Information Officer

“Sierra-Cedar was instrumental in assisting K-State with restoring our production HR System and migrating the system to AWS, allowing us to meet our immediate payroll deadline. They have also assisted us in staging other ERP systems for DR/BC capability in the future.”

Gary L. Pratt, Chief Information Officer – Kansas State University

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