8 business drivers that motivate cloud migration

Migrating your assets to the cloud brings a range of additional benefits, from offering functional solutions to technical problems to being transformational to your whole business. The way you think about the drivers for your organisation can impact the value you get out of the move.

From their own observations, here are the eight business drivers that AWS have identified as being the main motivators for cloud migration.

1) Agility and staff productivity

The automation that cloud offers allows your people to dedicate more time to important business tasks, while also increasing the pace of innovation, resulting in a 62% increase in productivity.

That improved agility translates to 18.8% faster time-to-market, as well as higher app revenue and increased efficiency.

2) Improved security and operational resilience

Migrating with AWS helps to harden security and protect your business against cyber-attack. What’s more, with encryption and policy-driven controls you’ll be able to better define and manage your access policies, while preventing unauthorised disclosure and modification.

Improved resilience is enabled with high levels of availability and virtually unlimited failover capacity.

From their own research, AWS state that businesses migrating to their service experience more than 40% fewer security incidents and 7x less downtime.

3) Cost reduction

Cost reduction is a major motivator for cloud migration, especially if you’re ready to retire your older legacy infrastructure. Making the move to more efficient AWS solutions can reduce costs significantly. In fact, AWS cite five-year savings of up to 51 per cent. The majority of those savings come from the operational and productivity improvements made in the points above. When your infrastructure is hosted and managed remotely, maintenance and management costs can be minimised.

4) Hardware/software end of life

For many businesses, the ideal time to migrate to cloud comes when their own hardware or software reaches end-of-life (EOL). Cloud’s innate ability to improve depreciating capabilities and to end or shorten refresh cycles is especially compelling for organisations running Windows workloads and applications.

In highlighting migration of Windows-based workloads, AWS quote a 442% five-year ROI and a massive 56% cost savings.

5) Data centre consolidation

The appeal of cloud migration is also seen in its ability to alleviate the time that organisations need to spend managing and maintaining data centres. Freeing up valuable resources to spend more time focusing on running the business can be liberating and a much more efficient use of IT resource.

6) Digital transformation

It is a well-worn phrase at this point but migrating to cloud really can help businesses achieve digital transformation. Cloud inherently offers the agility, advanced technology and flexibility that modernising businesses need. And it is an important driver of cultural change, facilitating the adoption of modern business behaviours and practices.

7) Expansion, mergers and acquisitions

Choosing a cloud provider like AWS gives businesses access to a global network of data centres, enabling rapid scalability. But more than that, expansion into new locations within the UK is also simplified through having your assets in the cloud. That single data centre attached to your head office can become a thing of the past, with rapid, seamless rollout to homes and offices alike enabling a new business paradigm.

8) New technologies

From cloud communications to internet of things applications, migrating to cloud can put a wealth of new technology at your fingertips. Just select the tools, features and services you need.

Allied with the agility and flexibility of cloud, you can always ensure that your technology suite is up to date and configured for your changing business needs.

Migrating to AWS

As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, we’ve helped many businesses in their migration to the cloud.

Using our experience and expertise, we’ll help you to make the right choices and achieve the right solution for your business.

Call us on 01706 902579 for more details or email solutionsales@zen.co.uk