For today’s tech leaders, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines are pivotal for streamlining application development. CI/CD pipelines automate your application building, testing, and deployment, making it easier for your team to deliver the latest version of your app in record time.
Read MoreOrganizations tend to cite efficiency as a primary motivator to the cloud, because they know migration can improve flexibility, scalability, and make them more cost-effective. But many business leaders don’t realize that building a more efficient company culture starts with a specific part of the cloud migration journey:
Read MoreWhen the applications you rely on to run your business start slowing down, it may be time to consider moving your app to the cloud. But if you’ve been using and patching the same software for 10 or 15 years, it can be challenging to know where to begin.
Read MoreIt sounds obvious: You can’t begin a journey if you don’t know where you’re starting from. But when it comes to the cloud migration process, that’s exactly what many organizations do. To prevent getting lost in the woods, adding a “discovery” phase before you start your migration is a critical planning step.
Read MoreMost migration-minded organizations have an idea of where they want the AWS Cloud to take them. They want to take advantage of long-term cost savings, support a growing remote workforce, or improve security. But that ideal is only one side of the story – before you migrate, you also need to know where you are now.
Read MoreEach of us live with requirements that dictate how we move through the world. Laws and regulations keep us in check, simplify our daily lives, and ensure we do not harm ourselves or others. Without traffic laws, for example, imagine how much time we would spend figuring out which side of the road we should drive on.
Read MoreDesignating a particular department or team to take the lead on cloud migration can be beneficial to drive your project forward. Problems can occur, however, if that team forgets to think beyond the particular needs and capabilities of their own department. This can occur when one group is the driving force…
Read MoreYou already know not to compare “apples to oranges” when looking at the costs of cloud computing versus traditional on-premises architecture. What you might not recognize, however, are all the hidden costs your data center has been incurring all along. To consider a complete total cost of ownership (TCO) for either approach requires stepping back to gain a broader view.
Read MoreThere are many cloud-migration scenarios where individual business units and departments are tempted to migrate to the AWS Cloud on their own or build their own solution. Perhaps it’s a university department that has received a large grant, or a business unit within a corporation that suddenly landed a large client.
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