Achieving successful digital transformation through the Amazon Web Services Cloud

Take advantage of resources, tools and training to help you drive innovation and reduce technical debt within your business

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Achieving digital transformation through cloud migration is the key to success for any forward-looking company – but busy leaders need support to ensure the transition is as painless as possible. It’s a fact recognised by Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has developed a variety of resources to help firms embrace the cloud services revolution.

Alongside an extensive online library covering every conceivable cloud topic, AWS offers comprehensive training courses, useful migration tools, and experts to answer questions. There’s also an enterprise strategy blog focussed on topical transformation-related issues and challenges.

Recognised for helping companies to innovate and evolve

AWS’ commitment to aiding customers has helped the company achieve a ‘strong’ vendor rating from Gartner, the respected research and advisory firm.

“Amazon continues to broaden its offerings, with innovation disrupting at a relentless pace,” stated Gartner's report. “AWS has enabled all aspects of Amazon to grow and leverage scalability as an asset.”

Gartner also noted Amazon’s success in supporting a broad range of customers – from cloud-native start-ups to mid-market businesses, public sector organisations and educational establishments.

“AWS provides as much support as possible online using blogs, best practices and new feature guidance information,” it concluded.

Offering tailored support for any business

Amazon was quick to recognise the importance of embracing the cloud and has dedicated itself to helping companies innovate, evolve and thrive. It knows customer needs will vary depending on the size of their business, the experience of their staff, and what they are trying to achieve with their migration.

With this in mind, the AWS Partner Network was formed to help customers at any stage of their cloud journey build successful AWS-based businesses and solutions by providing comprehensive business, technical, sales and marketing support.

Equipping organisations with the skills to succeed

Need to supplement your team with specialised skills or experience to help you achieve your business goals faster? Then look no further than AWS Professional Services, a global team of experts that can help you achieve specific outcomes using the AWS Cloud.

At the other end of the spectrum, AWS understands the importance of ensuring a company’s in-house team is fully trained for the challenges of migration – and beyond. Giving existing employees the skills and knowledge required – either via a classroom or online – is faster, more scalable, and less expensive than hiring new staff.

To help organisations design and travel an accelerated path to successful cloud migration, AWS developed the Cloud Adoption Framework, which provides guidance and best practices to help businesses realise measurable business benefits from cloud adoption faster, and with less risk.

Meeting objectives through support, training and technology solutions

While every organisation has its own unique motivation for migrating to the cloud, common drivers include relinquishing data centres, increasing business agility, improving workforce productivity, gaining transparency in operational costs and reducing risk. To help businesses achieve as many of these benefits as possible, AWS provides consulting support and training through its Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).

Finally, AWS knows that few businesses will have everything they need at the outset to successfully undertake and complete a cloud migration. That’s why it established the AWS Marketplace – to enable customers to find, try, buy and sell cloud products, from security to networking to storage – and start benefitting from them immediately.

To learn more about how AWS can facilitate and expedite your digital transformation, click here