Cloud Advisor: the expert guide to cloud adoption with AWS

The importance of cloud adoption

Cloud adoption has a significant impact on business operations and offers several benefits, including:

• Operational agility
• Cloud adoption enables organizations to quickly scale IT resources as needed. The elasticity of cloud computing allows it to adapt easily to load peaks and fluctuations in demand, ensuring greater operational flexibility.
• Cost reduction
• Adopting the cloud can result in significant financial savings. By eliminating the need to invest in expensive hardware infrastructure and maintenance, companies can reduce operating costs and pay only for the resources they actually use.
• Reliability and resilience
• Leading cloud providers like AWS offer highly available and redundant infrastructures, ensuring greater reliability and reducing the risk of service disruptions. The global presence of these infrastructures also helps to improve business continuity.
• Advanced safety
• Cloud service providers like AWS invest heavily in data security and offer a wide range of tools to protect users’ resources. Advanced security solutions, such as multi-factor authentication and continuous monitoring, greatly reduce the risk of data breaches.

Lift and shift WITH Sidea Group AND AWS

A common strategy for cloud migration is Lift and shift, which involves moving existing applications and workloads from an on-premises infrastructure directly to the cloud platform, such as AWS. This approach has significant advantages, including:

• Minimal architectural changes
• Lift and shift allows companies to migrate their applications without making significant changes to the architecture or source code. This reduces the risks associated with complex migration and takes less time to complete.
• Speed of migration
• Moving existing applications to the cloud via lift and shift can be a relatively quick process compared to other migration strategies. This enables organizations to take advantage of the cloud faster.
• Maximising the use of resources
• With Lift and shift, companies can make the most of their existing infrastructure by moving it to the cloud without having to invest in new hardware resources. This approach allows the optimisation of investments already made.
• Gradual migration
• Lift and shift allows for a gradual migration, where applications can be transferred one at a time. This reduces the impact on day-to-day operations and simplifies change management for the organization.

The role of the Cloud Advisor in the Sidea Group

A Cloud Advisor is an expert consultant who provides in-depth knowledge of cloud services and migration best practices. The Cloud Advisor plays a critical role in driving cloud adoption and Lift and shift with AWS.

The services performed by the Sidea Group Cloud Advisor team include:

• Needs analysis
• The Cloud Advisor evaluates your organization’s specific needs and develops a customized migration strategy. This helps identify priority applications and workloads for migration.
• planning and implementation
• The Cloud Advisor plans the migration process, managing the associated challenges and risks. Work with your IT team to ensure a smooth migration and optimized deployment.
• resource optimization
• The Cloud Advisor helps you identify opportunities to optimize your cloud assets, reducing operating costs and maximizing the efficiency of your migrated applications and workloads.
• ongoing management
• After the migration, the Cloud Advisor continues to monitor your cloud environment, providing technical support and suggestions to further improve performance, security and scalability.

In the micro-webinar below, Francesco Liuzzi – Solutions Architect at Sidea Group – explains what a Sidea Group Cloud Advisor does and how it can bring value to client companies.

Cloud adoption and Lift and shift with Sidea Group and AWS provide significant benefits to organizations, including operational agility, cost reduction, reliability and advanced security. Collaborating with an experienced Cloud Advisor from Sidea Group is essential for an efficient migration process and optimization of cloud resources. With the right advice and choice of the right cloud provider, such as AWS, companies can take full advantage of the benefits of cloud computing and accelerate digital evolution to remain competitive in the marketplace.

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