8 Business Drivers for Cloud Migrations - AWS
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The document discusses eight key business drivers motivating organizations to migrate to the cloud, primarily through AWS, including cost reduction, agility, improved security, hardware end-of-life, data center consolidation, digital transformation, global scale, and new technologies. Cost reduction is highlighted as the most significant motivator, alongside benefits like increased operational resilience and productivity. AWS is positioned as a leading solution to address these drivers, promoting efficient and strategic cloud migrations.
8 Business Drivers for Cloud Migrations - AWS
- 1. 8 Business Drivers That Motivate Cloud Migrations How AWS helps businesses achieve their goals
- 2. By migrating some or all of their digital assets to the cloud, businesses can achieve transformational results. They can move and innovate faster, modernize aging infrastructure, scale globally, get better insights from their data, and restructure organizational models to create better customer experiences. Over its 13+ years of experience helping thousands of organizations successfully migrate to the cloud, AWS has observed eight business drivers that emerge as the most prevalent motivators for migration. Business drivers for migrating to the cloud Why cloud, why now? 2 1. Cost reduction 2. Agility & staff productivity 3. Improved security & operational resilience 4. Hardware/software end-of-life 5. Data center consolidation 6. Digital transformation 7. Going global quickly, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) 8. New technologies (AI/ML & IoT)
- 3. Cost reduction is the most popular migration motivator, as retiring legacy infrastructure in favor of more efficient AWS solutions is virtually certain to bring costs down. 1. Cost reduction Start your business case and cost analysis now » 1 https://pages.awscloud.com/rs/112-TZM-766/images/AWS-BV%20IDC%202018.pdf?aliId=1614258770 2 https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/enterprise-strategy/considering-a-mass-migration-to-the-cloud/ IDC projects: 1 $100 million 51% 31% reduction in operational costs lower 5-year TCO News Corp saved over 3 years 2 Five-Year Cost of Operations Using AWS Cost of lost user productivity and unplanned downtime IT infrastructure-related costs IT staff time costs ($ per organization over five years) 3 With AWS Before/without AWS $54.19 MILLION 51% Lower $26,565,500 $383,800 $11,569,000 $16,870,000 $14,612,700 $30,895,200 $6,420,500 60,000,000 50,000,000 40,000,000 30,000,000 20,000,000 10,000,000 0
- 4. 26.4% more features and fixes per release3 18.8% faster time to market3 62% better IT staff productivity4 2. Agility & staff productivity Flexible AWS architecture improves business agility, while automation allows staff to increase the pace of innovation and dedicate more time to important tasks. 3 https://d1.awsstatic.com/executive-insights/en_US/infographic-realizing-business-value-with-aws.pdf 4 https://d1.awsstatic.com/enterprise-marketing/cloud-economics/whitepaper-live-nation-realizing-business-value-with-aws.pdf Agility Productivity 33.8% higher app revenue per user3 After 3+ years on AWS, the average IT admin can: 3.3x more virtual machines3 Manage 3.2x more terabytes of data3 Manage 4
- 5. 3. Improved security & operational resilience Migrating and modernizing with AWS hardens security to help protect against cyberattacks, define and manage access policies, and prevent unauthorized disclosure and modification using encryption and policy-driven controls. AWS also helps ensure resiliency, providing high availability with virtually unlimited failover capacity. Learn more about AWS Cloud Security » 5 500 AWS Customers. AWS Benchmarking, August 2018 6 Nucleus Research - Guidebook Understanding the Value of Migrating from On-premises to AWS for Application Security and Performance, June 2020 43.4% fewer monthly security incidents5 69% reduction in unplanned time6 Security Resilience 5
- 6. 4. Hardware/software end-of-life Many organizations migrate to AWS due to the end- of-life (EOL) of their hardware/software licensing and/or support. These companies see the cloud as an opportunity to improve depreciating capabilities and to end or shorten refresh cycles. This is especially compelling for organizations running Windows workloads and applications. AWS runs nearly 2 times more Windows Server instances than the next largest cloud provider, according to an IDC report. Learn more about Windows on AWS » 56% Cost savings 442% Five-year ROI 9-month breakeven point Migrate Windows-based environments to AWS and achieve, on average:7 7 https://d1.awsstatic.com/analyst-reports/Business%20Value%20of%20Efficiently%20Running%20High- Performing%20Windows%20Workloads%20in%20the%20AWS%20Cloud.pdf 6
- 7. Paul Goldberg, CIO, AECOM 5. Data center consolidation Organizations can spend less time managing data centers and more time running their businesses by migrating to AWS. 8 https://www.commvault.com/resources/case-study-dow-jones 50 global 75% data centers down to 6 of all compute to AWS Reduce Move Dow Jones is going all-in on AWS, with plans to:8 “Migrating with…AWS allows us to move quickly and exit data centers while looking for ways to retire and/ or optimize our application portfolio.” 7
- 8. 6. Digital transformation Migrating to AWS helps businesses achieve digital transformation by boosting agility, enabling broader use of advanced technologies, and facilitating culture change. 9 https://www.linkedin.com/in/ke-li-3983655a/?originalSubdomain=cn 8 “We achieved digital transformation of our IT systems, which can serve…hundreds of millions of consumers rather than the previous 10,000 sales representatives.” Ke Li, Manager of Cloud Services & IT Operations, Swire Coca-Cola Swire Coca-Cola production and disaster recovery data centers and migrated all of their business systems, including SAP and CRM, to AWS.9 closed 3 on-premises
- 9. 9 Lia Taylor, CTO, John Holland11 7. Going global quickly, mergers & acquisitions (M&A) AWS customers gain access to a global network of data centers—enabling rapid, strategic scalability. AWS also makes it easier to integrate digital assets, shortening and streamlining M&A procedures. Explore the full breadth and depth of AWS Global Infrastructure » 10 https://hbr.org/sponsored/2018/05/how-technology-is-changing-ma-in-the-u-s 11 https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/john-holland/ “Our agility to go to market and being able to quickly and seamlessly change and improve the way we deliver IT services to support the growth of (our) business has led to outstanding results.” AWS Global Infrastructure: 22 69 245 worldwide regions availability zones countries and territories Regions Coming soon According to Harvard Business Review, of U.S. companies say 71% technology integration determines the success of M&A deals10
- 10. 8. New technologies (AI/ML & IoT) 10 Migrating to AWS is a more economical and practical solution for meeting the data storage and computational requirements of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) and the internet of things (IoT). 12 https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/Intuit/ 13 https://aws.amazon.com/partners/success/vantage-power-luxoft/ Learn more about AWS AI/ML » Learn more about AWS IoT » Vision Rekognition Image Rekognition Video Textract Polly Comprehend AI Services Speech Language Amazon SageMaker ML Services Ground Truth Notebooks Algorithms + Marketplace Reinforcement Learning Training Optimization Deployment Hosting Chatbots Forecasting FRAMEWORKS INFRASTRUCTURE INTERFACES ML Framework + Infrastructure EC2 P3 & P3DN EC2 G4 EC2 C5 FPGAS Elastic Inferentia Recommendations Lex Forecast Personalize Translate Transcribe 90% faster12 Intuit can deploy machine learning models 100,000+ data points per minute across its IoT ecosystem13 Vantage Power can process Greengrass Inference
- 11. Ready to get started? Best practices to make your cloud migration a success » Learnings from industry leaders » Learn more about solutions to Migrate with AWS » No matter what motivates businesses to migrate to the cloud—one of the eight drivers described in this eBook, any combination of them, or something else entirely—AWS can help them achieve their objectives quickly and efficiently. With the best software, services, and support, AWS enables smart, strategic migrations for businesses of every shape and size. AWS—the best choice for any migration motivation 11