The pressure for IT leaders to create new business value for customers and employees has never been greater.

However, many underestimate the challenge to complete a cloud migration without degrading performance or losing control of costs. Migrating workloads and applications to the cloud without a winning strategy built for precision and minimal disruption leads to performance issues, operating inefficiency, security blind spots and unexpected costs.

A fast, cost-effective journey to AWS can support business growth and reduce risk. Getting it right requires the right skills, resources and strategy. Absent these, a few common challenges can arise, leading to false starts and do overs.

Cloud talent shortages: Lack of in-house cloud skills and resources increases the risk of post-migration challenges, stalling transformation efforts. In fact, insufficient cloud skills will delay half of enterprise cloud migrations by 2+ years.

High impact cloud errors: Even simple errors can slow the momentum of your legacy-to-cloud migration. Ninety-nine percent of cloud security failures result from misconfigurations or human error.

Flawed plans and uncertain outcomes: Migration plans based on incomplete data or aimed at the wrong goals lead to performance and cost problems. This in turn dilutes the expected benefits of cloud.