Why migrate to the cloud? Some companies migrate to increase the productivity of their workforce. Others seek data-center consolidation due to a merger or acquisition. Still more are re-imagining their businesses as part of a larger digital transformation. And, of course, organizations are always looking for ways to improve the bottom line by reducing their costs.

Regardless of your objectives, the decision to move your IT operations to the cloud can be as daunting as it is promising. It’s a journey that requires proven methodologies, tools, training, and partners with the deep experience needed to execute successful cloud migrations. It’s important to carefully consider the overall capabilities and experience of prospective cloud partners, particularly their rates of success in helping organizations like yours deliver better business results.

• Slash overall infrastructure costs by 31 percent

• Reduce costly downtime on average by 94 percent

• Boost IT staff productivity on average by 62 percent

• Accelerate to deliver 3x more features per year on average

Modern application development empowers small, dedicated teams to prototype, test, deploy, and scale applications rapidly and repeatedly—which is why traditional processes can no longer keep pace.

AWS can help you replace the complex, monolithic applications of the recent past with self-contained microservices, serverless computing, and Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD). Equip your teams to deliver capabilities with greater agility and radically shorter development cycles. Providing the deepest, widest portfolio of cloud-development solutions, AWS modernizes the process of building, integrating, and scaling modern applications.

Modern application development practices help AWS customers get to market faster, accelerate innovation, and build more reliable applications at reduced costs.

Modern analytics and machine learning (ML) have become competitive differentiators and a source of value-generation for many businesses. That explains IDC’s recent prediction that 40 percent of transformation initiatives in 2019 are being enabled by AI/ML. With the volume of data increasing to support those analytics capabilities, business planners need to understand that what worked in the past may not work in the present.

Implementing ML can easily involve dozens of technologies, tools, and environments. AWS simplifies the process—enabling faster decisions, enhancing customer experiences, and eliminating potential business risk. Start with your data strategy, making sure you have the right database for the job and that your data lakes are collecting and storing all of your data for better accessibility and use.

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  Speed decision-making to better
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  Deepen customer relationships
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  Leverage your data to help
  predict and reduce business risk

As you evolve from legacy technologies and processes to the modern cloud operations, the security risks and compliance regulations remain. Protecting your enterprise necessitates proven security expertise, tested against strict third-party assurance frameworks.

AWS offers the world’s most secure cloud-based infrastructure to meet the world’s most intensive security demands. That includes 24x7 monitoring for the privacy, resiliency, and availability of data in all regions. Simply stated, enterprises running on AWS achieve a higher security posture on the AWS Cloud than in their legacy environments.

By elevating the security posture of your business on AWS, you can ensure a range of positive outcomes and protections.

Putting innovation to work means building operations around customer-focused outcomes that are ownable and repeatable. It’s time to rethink old-style waterfalls and other activity-based approaches that don’t support agile, feedback-centered development.

AWS provides a set of best practices that can help any business build small, agile, and highly empowered teams to own and operate what they build. Improve your pace of innovation by enabling faster decision-making. Every AWS customer benefits from the fastest pace of innovation, most proven operational expertise, and most secure cloud environment.

In order to deliver better customer outcomes, many enterprises are reorganizing around agile, empowered teams rather than relying on activity or role-based functions.

Although many organizations want to move faster to the cloud, they continue to invest in traditional on-premises technologies. The reason? An inability to hire and train cloud-skilled teams fast enough, and a lack of experience within the business to make the cloud deliver meaningful business outcomes.

The talent gap is real, and it goes to one of the deepest challenges to driving innovation. But, rather than looking outside the organization, AWS customers are “upskilling” their internal resources—nurturing the cloud talent they need in the people they already have.

AWS Customer Enablement helps you train and equip your teams to operate successfully in the cloud, and continuously upskill their capabilities in lockstep with the rapid pace of innovation.