While the IT Ops is the one who is responsible for setup, recovery, and services to choose in the cloud the decision about moving to the cloud cannot be made by them. It is your boss has to make that decision about moving to cloud and its impact on the organization. Hence he has to strategically think in terms of benefits, cost saving, productivity, and security.
For many organizations, AWS cloud provider is the best choice one can make since they are in the market since 2006. This states that many organizations are relying on the AWS for its optimal server infrastructure that is secure, reliable and frequently updated. Along with these, AWS is easy and simple to scale up to meet the business demands in a short period of time compared to on-premises.
While there is an abundant number of advantages to benefit from migrating to the cloud, one should know about all the ways it could impact the business.
1. AWS Cloud Can Fit your Business
AWS Cloud is the best choice, if your business demands to provide services 24×7 and would require you to expand your business into the global market. Providing services in a global market for a large and growing business needs reliable infrastructure. On-premises is a boon when it comes to scaling up your resources as it consumes extra hours and money.
Since AWS cloud is already operating on a global scale and their responsibility to maintain infrastructure saves a lot of time and money. Hence AWS is an easy decision one can make.
2. Migrating to Cloud Saves Money
That’s right, moving to cloud saves a lot of money to the organization which means more profit. It is comparatively less expensive than having own on-premises data center. In on-premises, you have to purchase servers, take time to set it up, look into security protocols, and certificates which both takes up your time and money. In the AWS Cloud, you only pay for what you use and it also provides one year of free subscription for the limited resources which you can utilize to test the cloud environment before deploying full scale.
In the case of AWS, the prices are getting cheaper as their popularity of cloud services is growing every day, and to meet the supply and demand. You only pay for the resourced your using and not charge for the unused resources.
3. Cloud Provides a Safe and Secure System
Companies that are considering to move to the cloud, security becomes their primary concern as people are always worried about their data security. Data is not secure in the cloud is the biggest misconception. When it comes to security, AWS offers the best in class because security is the main pillar of the AWS business model where hundreds of engineers are working every day to make sure that everything is safe.
AWS assures us that the data stored on their servers will be protected and they would lose millions of clients from all over the world if that turned out to be false. Data security is one of the prime keys for all the cloud providers which is taken very seriously. Therefore, you can rest assured that your data is safe and secure.
4. Data will Always be Yours
One of the huge misconceptions about the cloud is that anyone can access and control your data. If this was the case, we could easily use Netflix without paying right. We pay for Netflix because all the data is safe and encrypted and there is no other way around to use it for free.
The ownership of the data stored in the cloud will always be you, even if the physical location of the data is changed to a different region. AWS assures a high level of data protection and provides powerful tools that allow customers to choose from a number of storage, access and security options. AWS hosts millions of customers who trust AWS for their sensitive information in the cloud. Hence it is an easy decision for any business to move to the cloud.
5. Only Authorized Members can Access Data
Once you store the data in the AWS cloud, only you are authorized to access the data. Not even the AWS technicians are able to access the data without explicit permissions from the company.
However, you can set the permissions such that which user can read the data, edit the data or delete the data or all three permissions can be granted. This kind of authorization allows you to maintain control over data stored in the cloud. For example, You can create different folders for each team which should and can only be accessed by the authorized team.
6. Your Team needs AWS Skillset
To deploy and manage your IT environment in the cloud, IT Ops team should have the knowledge and essential skills set. Although you might have a few staffs who has knowledge of the AWS cloud, it is still necessary to conduct some training to the entire team. An organization that invests in the people is one of the best investments they can make.
Also one can learn about the AWS online via: Amazon, Udemy, and Cloud Academy. By getting a necessary skills set through training and certification, the team can manage the application in AWS cloud with ease and improve it for the betterment of the organization.
7. Focused Team will be More Productive
A trained team, would be more confident and focused on the newly acquired skill set where they can handle all the required upgrades, maintenance, and improvement of the applications deployed in the AWS Cloud. Once the applications are successfully deployed, the team can focus on the innovation to improve the productivity of the applications.
About InterPole
InterPole was established in 1996 and engages in web hosting, email, and management of IT infrastructure. InterPole pioneered with Virtual Private Servers in 2004 and Cloud Hosting in 2008. Over the years, InterPole has worked with over 6200 mid-sized businesses and startups, and have assisted them in their journey towards the adoption of modern technologies through the Internet. InterPole is a Standard Consulting Partner of Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure. With this partnership, provides Managed AWS service and maintains a team of engineers who are trained and certified for the specific cloud platforms. These benefits companies in defining their cloud strategy and making a well-planned journey, reliably and cost-effectively.