Elevate your business beyond the limitations of on-site servers
How would breaking free of on-site server limitations improve innovation and security at your organization? This AWS one-pager shows how moving to AWS gives you the agility, security, and speed to innovate, with more predictable costs. It outlines a three-step process to assess, plan, and migrate, along with AWS benchmark data on savings and ROI. View the one-pager to explore your migration options.
Why should we move from on‑site servers to AWS?
Moving from on‑site servers to AWS is less about “lifting and shifting” hardware and more about reimagining how your IT supports the business.
Key reasons organizations move include:
- More predictable costs: Instead of large, upfront hardware spends and rising maintenance costs, AWS uses a pay-for-what-you-use model. That makes IT spend easier to forecast over time and helps avoid overbuying capacity you might not need.
- Cost reduction and ROI: Cloud migrations to AWS typically lead to an average infrastructure cost savings and an average ROI over the first 3 years, as measured in AWS benchmark data. You reduce spend on hardware, data centers, and manual operations.
- Agility and scalability: You can scale on demand—adding capacity during peak seasons and dialing it back when things slow down. This flexibility is difficult and expensive to match with on‑site hardware.
- Stronger security posture: AWS provides enterprise-grade security and compliance capabilities from day one, helping you keep up with growing security and regulatory requirements.
- Higher availability: AWS runs on a global infrastructure designed to keep your business online 24/7 and reduce downtime risks tied to single data centers or server rooms.
- Faster innovation: Once on AWS, you gain instant access to AI, machine learning, and data analytics services that can turn raw data into actionable insights—helping you rethink how products, services, and internal processes work.
In short, AWS helps you move beyond the limits of aging infrastructure so your team can focus more on new initiatives and less on maintaining servers.
What does an AWS migration actually involve?
The migration is structured to reduce risk and keep your operations running. It’s not a one-size-fits-all project; instead, we tailor the path to your environment and priorities.
Typical stages include:
- Assess: We start with a free Workload Migration Assessment. This shows how your current server operations will perform on AWS, including expected savings and performance changes. You get data to build a business case and prioritize workloads.
- Plan: We design a roadmap that aligns with your budget and timeline. The plan focuses on minimizing disruption, so your teams can keep working while we prepare the move.
- Migrate: Using proven AWS automation tools and specialized funding programs, we move workloads efficiently and cost-effectively. This helps shorten migration timelines and manage costs.
There are multiple migration paths:
- Move “as is”: For many workloads, we simply move them to AWS and run them as they are, gaining immediate cost and reliability benefits.
- Modernize over time: For other systems, we may rebuild or refactor gradually, adding cloud-native services at a pace that fits your risk profile and internal capacity.
Throughout, you get guidance from start to finish plus support after you are live on AWS, so you are not left on your own once the migration cutover is complete.
How can AWS help with data center exit, disaster recovery, and new capabilities?
AWS can help you tackle several common infrastructure challenges in a more flexible and cost-aware way.
1. Data center exit
- If your hardware is aging, a lease is ending, or your server room is out of space, cloud migration lets you exit the data center without another large hardware refresh.
- You move off-premises while keeping operations running, and avoid sinking budget into equipment you expect to replace again in a few years.
2. Disaster recovery
- A strong disaster recovery strategy no longer has to mean maintaining a second physical site.
- We set up reliable DR in the cloud at a fraction of the cost of duplicate hardware, and we help you test it so it works when you need it.
3. Growth, AI, and analytics
- If your current setup is slowing you down, AWS gives you a modern foundation for AI, machine learning, analytics, and automation.
- You can start small, then scale these capabilities as your business grows, instead of overbuilding infrastructure upfront.
Across these scenarios, you also gain access to funding programs that can make migration more affordable—even for smaller environments—and you benefit from deep AWS and migration experience on every engagement.
Elevate your business beyond the limitations of on-site servers
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