Category: Migration Solutions

In today’s climate, there is a need for government entities to achieve cost optimization while maintaining high standards of service delivery and data security. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the United Kingdom’s largest public service organization, implemented AWS Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) best practices, and reduced its cloud consumption costs by 23 percent in fiscal year 2023-24, resulting in annual savings of GBP £8.7 million.

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) recently announced an innovative OneGov agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide up to $1 billion in savings for cloud adoption, modernization, and training for federal agencies. In alignment with this announcement are solutions to reduce waste and improve efficiency. To help organizations accelerate these initiatives and reduce fraud, waste, and abuse (FWA), this guide outlines practical strategies for optimizing technology spend while improving operational efficiency

Successfully managing a data center exit requires careful planning and experienced advisors. AWS can help you evaluate your current environment and assets, build a comprehensive business case, customize a migration strategy for your facilities, hardware, and IT workloads, maximize the value of your existing assets, and address other unique data center challenges. Read this post to learn more.

By migrating their electronic banking system to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Post Bank reduced application deployment time from 2 hours to only 10 minutes, decreased CPU utilization by 40 percent, and dramatically improved system reliability—all while maintaining full compliance with Poland’s stringent financial regulations. This transformation story demonstrates how financial institutions can use AWS Cloud technology to become more agile and efficient without compromising security or regulatory compliance.

The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) recently completed a migration from a traditional on-premises data center and began using AWS Cloud services. Originally planned for five years, NRECA finished in four. Like most technology, it wasn’t as simple as flipping a switch, but if your organization is considering a similar move, hopefully the NRECA’s experience can act as a guide. Read this post to learn more.

Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware in 2023 has changed the virtualization game plan for VMware customers. With the clock ticking on expiring VMware licenses, many public sector organizations are seeking alternatives—like migrating workloads to a cloud service provider such as AWS. In this post, we discuss five steps to help your organization navigate this shift successfully and set your team up for success.

Many government agencies rely on critical applications running on legacy systems, which is highlighted in a 2023 report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). These applications are typically monolithic, built on outdated technologies that necessitate workarounds, lack scalability, and incur escalating operational costs. The GAO report identified numerous federal IT legacy systems in urgent need of modernization. To address these challenges, Booz Allen Hamilton, an AWS Partner, offers innovative solutions using multi-tenant architectures. This post delves into one such mission-critical application developed for a large-scale federal agency, showcasing how modern cloud technologies can transform legacy government systems.

This post is part four of a four-part series that addresses how a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCOE) can be a viable solution to address the challenges of digital transformation. In this post, we discuss a framework for defining organizational areas of responsibility.

Global leaders are convening in Germany this week at the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) to discuss key foreign policy and security challenges. Amid these discussions, one thing is clear: global leadership increasingly hinges on technological progress. In particular, the rapid progress of artificial intelligence (AI) presents an extraordinary opportunity for transformative innovation. For the U.S. government, this moment marks a crucial inflection point: embrace bold modernization of digital infrastructure and AI investment or risk being outpaced by global competitors.

This post is part three of a four-part series that addresses how a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) can be a viable solution to address the challenges of digital transformation. In this post, we address the three technical perspectives of the Amazon Web Services Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF). While the business, organizational, and governance perspectives of the AWS CAF are crucial, the CCoE must also focus on the technical capabilities required to build and operate a cloud environment that meets the organization’s needs.