AMAZON WEB SERVICES | ACCELER ATING YOUR AWS MIGR ATION
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Business value
Often, the decision to migrate applications to the cloud starts with a desire to
reduce costs; however, our customers find that the strategic value of migrating
to AWS goes well beyond the cost savings of retiring legacy infrastructure.
At AWS, our research and experience have led us to identify eight key drivers
that compel businesses to migrate to the cloud. These are:
1. Cost reduction
2. Agility and staff productivity
3. Improved security and operational resilience
4. Outsourcing and hardware/software end-of-life
5. Data center consolidation
6. Digital transformation
7. Going global quickly, mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
8. New technologies (such as AI/ML and IoT)
AWS and our partner ecosystem have helped global enterprises such as
GE, The Coca-Cola Company, BP, Enel, Samsung, News Corp, and Twenty-
First Century Fox migrate quickly and—in many cases— begin reaching the
objectives behind their business drivers almost immediately.
Foundation for a successful migration
Organizations that migrate a substantial application portfolio early in their
journey—and combine those efforts with modernization initiatives—generally
derive the biggest business results from their AWS migrations.
Guardian Life Insurance offers a prime example. In just two years' time, the
company migrated 200 legacy applications to AWS and shut down all of its
