Your business should be moving to the cloud. With rare exception, most businesses information technology needs can be better served in the cloud. But change can be intimidating. Amazon has identified the following four steps businesses take when moving to the cloud. Architect My Software can help your company at any of these steps in the process.
At this stage of moving to the cloud, Amazon Web Services is only used for very specific needs and the decision to use it is made on a project-by-project basis. Usually there are few in the organization with expertise in AWS available, so consultants are frequently used.
Once 3-5 enterprise-grade production applications on AWS have been established, companies start to become more familiar with AWS. Existing data centers begin moving to the cloud as many new projects begin to be opened up. It is at this stage that internal training and scalable security models are often introduced as well. Due to the importance of the groundwork laid at this stage it is crucial that outside help be brought in to ensure that everything is being done properly.
In the Migration stage, organizations start preparing for long term cloud operations. IT roles are redefined and groups of production applications and/or data centers migrate to AWS. There are many companies that assist with “lift and shift” of an organizations operations. Architect My Software is committed to “lift, shift, and improve” to get the most out of AWS, and a jump start into the next phase.
Companies that have fully migrated then begin to see their businesses differently. Cloud becomes a default choice for any new projects. New business models are explored given the new resources provided by moving to the cloud. At this point you also see companies being more comfortable with cloud operations than on-premises.
Amazon has also found that brining in a trusted Amazon Partner as a consultant can help speed up your time and decrease your pain in moving to the cloud. If you’d like to hear more about how Architect My Software, a trusted Amazon Partner can do to help you, fill out our contact form.